“Prior to working with Melanie, I struggled to articulate my passion for our business with clarity, tone and pace, in a way that held my listeners’ attention, and landed my messages. I had difficulty with video presence and revealed nerves, many feel when on camera. By working with Melanie I have transformed my executive communication capability and style by implementing her powerful techniques to create impact, and improved my self-awareness. As a result, I am now a more reflective and self-directed communicator. She continues to push me out of my comfort zone, allowing me to increase my engagement and sharpen my messages so they are more relatable and land where they should with my teams. This has allowed me to give my team more informative updates and action steps, but with less descriptive words. For Leadership, my presentations have helped garner a new level of engagement and support for my team and customers. I absolutely love Melanie’s empathy, and her direct and honest approach.”

“As a global speaker (from Brazil to Australia), I worked with Melanie to hone my presentation skills and to take my English to a more advanced level with a focus on pronunciation. Together we explored her presentation steps including: communication goal, engaging starts and some powerful linguistic techniques. I immediately began to cascade these newly acquired techniques to my team, and even challenged my colleagues. Now, as result of Melanie’s coaching programme, I am able to make a bigger impact when I speak, with clearer language and an increased feeling of self-confidence!”

“At Ayming, our expert management team was strong and aligned. But we decided to take our Public Speaking skills to a new level to bring engaging and impactful messages to sell our ideas, both in Belgium and globally. With Melanie’s support, we learnt how to use our voices and bodies, our visuals and language to deliver clearer messages, and to be more authentic and passionate. And, as for many professionals, it was critical to reduce any stage fright to a more manageable feeling of discomfort by focusing on our content and delivery, and less on ourselves as individuals. The progress was huge and easily noticed at our annual strategy kick off and by our international colleagues during key events.”

“What an amazing course! It’s clear and well structured. Before the course, I lacked assertiveness and energy, crucial when you want to make a global impact on such a crucial topic as climate change. But I now feel more confident, confirmed when I did an in person presentation with 30 people and I didn’t feel any anxiety or an online one with 80 participants from 20 countries and I loved to meet them. I also love the AI app which I’ve used about 20 times, recording in private and reviewing the AI analytics: my top key words and delivery. I believe my messages and slides are now stronger and clearer. And after just six weeks, participants began to remark on the power of my content and how this touched them. And I have been invited to participate in more external meetings to share my innovative ideas. Of course, it’s a process - I’m still learning, practising and enjoying! This was a perfect course for me: I already worked hard on my expertise in this complex content, but without effective sharing, I missed too many opportunities for my career. Perfect timing.”

“I provide CRM training worldwide and after just five sessions with Melanie, I believe I already convey my messages better. As a result my learners have more trust in the new tool, rapidly improving our change management goal. And on a personal level I feel more confident, my voice is no longer strained and I am able to contribute more to my organisation. Thank you for all the great tips you shared with me. I so valued the time we spent together.”

“Melanie’s coaching used to be the highlight of my week! Great work on my voice and body, language etc. And she transformed my slides to be more engaging to help convey the messages I want to share. After only our third session, I felt at ease for the first time presenting in front of a larger group. The stress had gone and I was even able to improvise. It felt really good. And as a result I am now asked to give more and more presentations. What honesty! What passion! And what valuable advice! Thank you so much.”

“Melanie helped a small team of neuroscientists to present our digital pan-European research infrastructure at a very important meeting by working on each individual’s persuasive language and voice. EBRAINS’ mission is to be a major enabler to advance brain research covering different areas such as neuroscience, brain health and brain-inspired technology. EBRAINS also aims to contribute to significant scientific progress and innovation for the benefit of patients, industry and society as whole. Melanie’s contribution to the amazing presentation performance was of great essence and we are very grateful.”

“Melanie is very helpful & enthusiastic. She gradually helped me to build back my confidence to speak English again. She adopts a very pragmatic approach, starting with understanding my job and therefore identified my real needs to perform my Human Resources job in an English speaking environment in a world class pharmaceutical company. She then designed practical exercises like interviews, and appraisals so I could focus on my core HR competencies. I endorse her professional way of teaching.”

“Melanie assessed and helped me to celebrate my current English language level, C2 Mastery: able to communicate with the fluency and sophistication of a highly competent English speaker. She then ‘allowed’ me to be proud of my pronunciation/my accent and gave me tips to help my audience with my voice, the clarity of my message and how to record and review autonomously. As a result, I now feel extremely confident about my ability to Coach and share my valuable work with individuals and corporates without hesitation. Melanie’s listening skills are exceptional and she has the ability to identify your communication needs quickly and suggest improvements and new techniques in the most honest way.”

“Melanie is a very special teacher. She can be innocent and curious like a child, deeply happy like a dog on a walk in the woods, giddy like an explorer who has found hidden treasure, or content and complete like a grandma sitting in her rocking chair recounting stories of her remarkable life. Melanie is an amazing person. She is very clear during her teaching and always full of empowerment! She loves her job and it was a great pleasure to be her ‘student’.”

“Melanie is very focused on your professional activity & improvement axes, especially for business presentations / conferences / public speaking. Not only from a language perspective, but also the way you structure your speech, and tons of tips to keep your audience awake and hooked. Was really helpful! An excellent coach and a lovely person.”

“I had a 30 hour course with Melanie. Besides being an excellent and top class teacher, Melanie is a very motivated and flexible person. I highly recommend her if you wish to improve your English very efficiently in a short period of time.”

“Our ‘Think visually’ workshop with Melanie was designed to include Bongo’s core values and brand identity. Useful and impactful for the whole team. My personal key takeaway was the power of changing the slide title to one that is message driven. Quick and simple, yet highly effective.”

“After Melanie’s ‘Think Visually’ workshop, our European Development Director remarked, “WOW! There’s a notable improvement in your visuals. Your messages are now much clearer”. Later in our individual coaching session, I learnt how to effectively connect messages with my team’s story and accomplishments, how to emphasise data for clarity and cohesion, how to be more deliberate with colour selection (it’s not just about pretty slides!) and how to create engaging presentations using animation. It was a revelation moment! Now, whenever I design a slide, I ask myself “Does this truly convey my message? How can I enhance the impact with this visual?”