More case studies are being written, drawn from current and former clients across the range of the work: division executives leading international operations, and specialists turning deep expertise into a persuasive pitch.
Each one is written with the client, and published only with their permission. Where a client would rather not be named, the study is anonymised. That takes time, and I would rather do it properly than quickly.
Illustrative examples
The case studies above are real clients, shared with permission. The three below are illustrative. They are representative of the situations this work addresses, not specific clients, and they show how the Method applies across an Audit, an Intensive and a Partnership.
Communication Audit
From accurate to persuasive: a board presentation rebuilt
Senior manager · Manufacturing
The situation. A senior manager had one week to present a supplier-consolidation recommendation to the board. The deck was technically sound, but it buried the recommendation on the final slide, behind pages of background the board had not asked for.
How the Method applied
Intent Clarify that the board needed a clear yes or no on consolidating suppliers, not a history of the sourcing process.
Clarity Restructure the deck so the recommendation opened on slide one, with the detail organised beneath it.
Credibility Replace tentative phrasing with direct, ownership-based language.
Persuasion Reframe each supporting slide around the board’s likely concerns: cost risk and transition timeline.
Refinement A one-hour rehearsal focused on delivering the opening recommendation with authority rather than easing into it.
Instead of
“We were thinking maybe we could look at consolidating a couple of the suppliers, if that makes sense?”
Rewrite
“My recommendation is that we consolidate to two suppliers. The data shows this reduces cost by 14% without added delivery risk.”
The outcome. The board approved the recommendation in the same meeting, with no follow-up questions on the core proposal. Three earlier presentations on similar topics had ended in “let us take this offline”.
Presentation Intensive
Preparing a first-time investor pitch
Founder · Events technology
The situation. A first-time founder had six weeks until a Series A pitch for an events-booking app. The deck was built around product features, with little attention to what investors needed to hear: market size, traction and risk.
How the Method applied
Intent Reframe the goal of the pitch, not to explain features, but to move investors to a follow-up meeting.
Clarity Simplify the narrative into a clear arc, problem, solution, traction, ask, cutting detail that was not decision-relevant.
Credibility Shift founder language from hedged to grounded and specific.
Persuasion Restructure around investor psychology, leading with traction and market size before the ask.
Refinement A full rehearsal simulating investor pushback on unit economics and customer acquisition cost.
Instead of
“We hope to grow quite a bit over the next year, if things go well.”
Rewrite
“We have grown 40% quarter over quarter for the last three quarters, and our pipeline supports the same trajectory through next year.”
The outcome. The founder secured follow-up meetings with two of the three investors, with feedback that the pitch was clear and confident. An earlier attempt had stalled after the first meeting.
Communication Partnership
Building weekly communication confidence over six months
Engineering lead · Software
The situation. A technically respected engineering lead consistently spoke last, or not at all, in leadership meetings held in English, and routed his own status updates through a colleague rather than writing them himself.
How the Method applied
Intent Identify the real recurring goal: contributing a clear technical recommendation in real time, not just in writing afterwards.
Clarity Compress technical explanations into two or three sentences for a leadership audience, adding detail only if asked.
Credibility Shift written updates from passive, hedged phrasing to direct, ownership-based statements.
Persuasion Frame technical recommendations around business impact, cost, timeline and risk, so leaders could act quickly.
Refinement Each month’s sessions used real upcoming meetings, rehearsing moments to speak up beforehand and reviewing them afterwards.
Instead of
“It was sort of thought that maybe the deployment could possibly be delayed a little.”
Rewrite
“The deployment will be delayed by four days. This is due to a dependency issue we identified on Tuesday, and it does not affect the launch date.”
The outcome. After six months he was leading a recurring segment of the weekly leadership call himself, and his status updates took one draft instead of three, no longer going through a colleague first.
In the meantime
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15–30 minutes. English or German. Online worldwide.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to what most people want to know before booking.
How much does it cost?
Each engagement has a starting price, agreed with you before any work begins.
Communication Auditfrom €150
Presentation Intensivefrom €300
Communication Partnershipfrom €450 / month
What moves the price is how much work happens outside the live sessions. Every engagement can also be booked in a lighter form, which costs less.
Rehearsal only. We use the call to practise material you have already written. No document review, research or written feedback beforehand.
Sessions only. For the Intensive and the Partnership, we work live in the sessions, without document review or preparation between them.
The full versions include the work I do between sessions: reviewing your draft, researching your audience, refining the structure, and written feedback. We agree the exact price in the free consultation, once I know what you actually need.
How long does an engagement take?
That depends on which engagement, and most of all on how much time there is before the moment you are preparing for.
Communication Audit. A week before your deadline is ideal. That leaves comfortable time to review your material, send the report, and rehearse before you deliver it.
Presentation Intensive. Two to three weeks works best, so the sessions can be spaced out properly rather than compressed at the last minute.
Communication Partnership. This one is ongoing, month to month. Most of the value builds over several months rather than in a single cycle.
If your timing is tighter than this, do get in touch anyway. It is often still possible.
Do I need a certain level of English to start?
Most people are more ready for this than they think.
You will get the most from the work if you can already hold a conversation in English, because we focus on how you use the language rather than teaching it from the beginning.
If your English is solid but not yet fluent, the Communication Partnership is often the best fit. It gives us time to build business vocabulary alongside structure, delivery and confidence, rather than preparing for a single event.
If you are not sure where you stand, the free consultation will make that clear very quickly, and you are most welcome to book one.
Is this English lessons?
Not quite, though the two are easily confused.
I do not teach English from the ground up. Instead, we work on how you use the English you already have when it counts: how a presentation is structured, how a recommendation is made, which words carry authority, and how you handle the questions that follow.
You bring the expertise and the language. My work is making sure both of them land.
How are sessions delivered?
Online, over Google Meet. You will receive the link with your booking confirmation, and there is nothing to install.
Can I have only online sessions to rehearse?
Yes, and it is a good way to start. If your material is already written and you would simply like to practise delivering it, you can book the session time on its own.
There is no document review, research or written feedback beforehand, so it costs less than a full Audit or Intensive.
Group rehearsal€170 for 90 minutes, up to 4 people
For a larger team, or for something more structured than a rehearsal, tell me what you are preparing for and I will come back with a price.
Can a group join the rehearsals?
Yes, very happily. If a team is presenting together, or several colleagues are preparing for the same kind of moment, the rehearsal can be run as a group.
It works best with a small group, so that everyone gets real feedback rather than simply a turn to speak. It also tends to work best within one team, since you will be watching each other rehearse.
Group rehearsal€170 for 90 minutes, up to 4 people
For a larger team, or for something more structured than a rehearsal, do tell me what you are preparing for and I will come back with a price.
Can you work in my time zone?
Yes. The booking calendar shows my availability in your time zone as well as mine, so there is never confusion about when we are meeting.
My clients work across Europe, the Americas and beyond, so times outside standard European hours can usually be arranged.
What happens in the free consultation?
A relaxed conversation of 15 to 30 minutes over Google Meet. It is not a test, and there is no need to prepare perfect English.
The call is there so I can understand what you are working on, rather than to begin the work itself, so we will not be doing any coaching or preparation in it.
I will ask a little about your role, your goals and the challenge in front of you. Towards the end I explain how I could help and answer anything you would like to ask, including about price.
There is no obligation to book afterwards, and the call is free either way. If you would like to get more out of it, there is a short guide on how to prepare.
Do I have to book a consultation first?
Not at all. The consultation is simply there if you would like to talk things through before committing, and most people find it useful.
If you already know what you need, you are very welcome to book directly:
Please do say so, and as early as feels right. It is genuinely useful to know.
In most cases it means we are focusing on the wrong thing, and that is mine to put right rather than yours. A change of approach is usually all it takes.
If it still is not working after that, I would far rather tell you honestly than carry on regardless. The Partnership runs month to month with no lock-in, so you are free to stop at the end of any month.
Can my company pay for this?
Of course, and many clients are funded by their employer.
I invoice you, and you pass the invoice on to your company. It names the engagement only, so what we actually work on stays between the two of us.
Is what we discuss confidential?
Completely. Nothing you share with me is passed on to anyone else.
Your documents are never shared with anyone else. Protecting your material is central to this work rather than an afterthought.
What happens to my personal information?
Very little, because very little is collected. This website has no analytics, no cookies and no tracking of any kind, so reading it leaves no trace with me at all.
What I hold is what you send me: your booking details, our correspondence, and the materials we work on together. None of it is sold or shared for marketing.
The full detail, including how long I keep things and how to ask me to delete them, is in the privacy notice.
Do you work in German?
The free consultation can be in German or English, whichever feels more comfortable for you.
The coaching itself takes place in English, since English is where you need to perform. If something is easier to explain in German, we switch for a moment and then carry on.
How do I reschedule or cancel a session?
Life happens, and moving a session is never a problem. A message as early as you can manage is all I need.
To move a session to another time in the same week, four hours’ notice is plenty. To cancel, or to move it beyond the current week, twelve hours’ notice.
Inside those windows I do have to charge for the session, simply because the time has already been set aside for you. If something unavoidable comes up, please do just talk to me.
