Monthly Coaching
from €260/month
Best for: ongoing support around a busy role.
- 4 × 25 or 4 × 50 minutes a month, one-to-one
- The Studio between sessions
- Your personal workbook
Executive Communication for Professionals Who Refuse to Be Invisible.
Most coaches tell you to sound more confident. I show you why your expertise isn't landing — then train it.
You already have the expertise. We find the one or two things costing you most when it matters — in the meeting, the board update, the question you'd rather not be asked — and train them until they hold under pressure.
What happens next
- Step 1: Book a 20-minute call (€50, credited to your programme)
- Step 2: I diagnose what's costing you and recommend one programme
- Step 3: You decide. Start when it suits you.
Or start with your free Communication Signature™ →A free online assessment of how you come across.
5.0 from verified client reviews
The Gap
Capable. Senior. Quietly overlooked.
Highly capable professionals become invisible — not because they lack expertise, but because their communication doesn't yet carry it. You don't need more English. You need language and delivery that match your expertise — so the room hears what you actually know.
Expertise doesn't equal progress. Visibility comes from communication — structured thinking, executive presence, and language that lands when the stakes are real.
I help intelligent professionals become visible.
What I Do
Outcomes, not lessons.
Structured speaking in meetings
Say what you mean, in the order people can follow — without losing your authority.
Executive presence and tone
Adjust register, pace, and confidence to match the room.
Persuasive messaging
Shape positions, recommendations and proposals that move decisions.
Client and stakeholder communication
Calmer difficult conversations. Clearer written follow-ups.
Interviews and promotion narratives
Tell the story of your work so seniority is visible from the first answer.
Interview & promotion preparation →Composure under pressure
Answer the unexpected question, handle interruption, and hold your position without losing authority.
Client outcomes · Verified client reviews
The room hears what you actually know.
What senior professionals say about working with me.
Sudeshna
“Darcy is an amazing teacher. She understood exactly where I needed to work and accordingly structured our sessions and my homework. I am considerably more confident than I was when I started the course. I am really grateful.”
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- Verified client rating
- 5.0
- Across sales, the City of London and international business
- 15 years
- Countries lived and worked in
- 17
The Method · Communication Signature
Six dimensions. One clear picture of how you communicate.
Your Communication Signature is a structured, evidence-based view of how your communication currently operates — built from what you actually say in realistic professional situations, not from a personality label.
It comes from Darcy's Communication Assessment, which I designed and own: where you are now, what is limiting you, and the one or two dimensions worth changing first. Assessment, development plan and rehearsal are one system, not separate products.
- Clarity
- Ideas arrive in an order people can follow — the first time, without repetition or backtracking.
- Credibility
- Language, evidence and delivery that carry the weight of your actual expertise.
- Integrity
- You say what you mean. Positions hold under scrutiny; nothing is overstated to win a point.
- Composure
- Pressure, interruption and unexpected questions don't take the authority out of your voice.
- Influence
- Recommendations move decisions — with senior stakeholders, clients and sceptics.
- Adaptability
- You adjust register, pace and framing across cultures, seniority and formats without losing yourself.
How It Works
One system, six steps.
- 01
Understand where you are
A direct diagnostic call, or your free Communication Signature™ — six realistic situations, spoken or written. Take the time you need. Evidence, not impressions.
- 02
Identify what matters most
Your results show how your communication comes across, every point grounded in your own words. One or two dimensions carry most of the cost; we name them and leave the rest alone for now.
- 03
Build a targeted development plan
Specific behaviour changes, phrasing and structure — tied to the meetings and decisions actually on your calendar.
- 04
Rehearse the difficult situations
In live coaching and in The Studio — your private practice space between sessions — we practise the room you're walking into: the pushback, the panel, the question you'd rather not be asked.
- 05
Apply it in real situations
The work is tested where it counts — live meetings, presentations, negotiations, board conversations.
- 06
Review evidence of progress
We look at what changed and what's next. Visible movement in weeks, not terms.
Programmes
Work shaped to your week.
Recommended starting point
12-Week Intensive
€1,560 (instalments available)
Best for: a specific deadline — a board presentation, promotion or interview.
- Twelve weekly 50-minute sessions
- Baseline assessment, written plan and reassessment at week twelve
- Studio scenarios chosen for your deadline
Strategic Communication Programme
from €3,900
Best for: senior leaders who want a complete 12-week transformation.
- 24 private 50-minute sessions, two a week, with a companion workbook
- Executive Edition (€3,900): for senior professionals who work in English as a second language
- Advanced Executive Edition (€4,800): for native and near-native speakers in senior roles
Not sure which? Book the call — I'll recommend one.
Live coaching + The Studio
Your coaching continues between sessions.
Working with me gives you more than a live session. You also get access to The Studio, your private rehearsal space, built around your communication needs, so you can practise, apply and reinforce what you are learning between sessions.
Interactive rehearsal of real professional situations, not passive content, so a fifty-minute session becomes a week of targeted practice. Included with every programme, alongside your personal workbook.
Your Studio
This week's focus
Holding your position when a senior stakeholder pushes back.
- Clarity
- 4.0
- Composure
- 3.0
- Influence
- 3.5
Rehearsal · Board update under time pressureOpen
Rehearsal · Declining a request without losing goodwillOpen
Phrasebook · Calibrated certaintyOpen
Progress since your last session: composure evidence up across two scenarios. Reviewed with Darcy in your next session.
How The Studio works
- 01
We agree the focus in your live session
- 02
I set your Studio task
- 03
You rehearse realistic situations during the week
- 04
You get structured feedback
- 05
We review and advance in the next session
About
I train senior professionals to communicate with the authority their expertise already carries.
Fifteen years across sales floors, the City of London and seventeen countries taught me one thing: the strongest communicators are rarely the most fluent. They are the clearest. I work where language meets psychology and professional ambition — with first-language and highly proficient second-language professionals alike.
Questions
What clients ask before they begin.
Clear answers on the coaching, The Studio, and whether this is the right fit for you.
Your live coaching is supported by The Studio, your private rehearsal space, built around your Communication Signature. After each session, I set your Studio task — the scenarios to rehearse before we next meet — in your workbook and session summary, chosen to match the meeting, presentation, difficult conversation or stakeholder interaction on your calendar. You practise interactively, speaking or typing your replies, receive coaching notes on each rehearsal (when you speak, coaching notes also cover delivery: pace, pauses, pitch and volume), and review your own phrasing and structure. The work is connected to your next session, so we close the loop between coaching and real-world application. More about The Studio
I coach executive communication — not general English fluency. We work on structured speaking in meetings, executive presence and tone, persuasive messaging, client and stakeholder influence, interview and promotion narratives, and composure under pressure. The focus is on making your expertise land with clarity, credibility and authority when the stakes are high.
Senior professionals who already know their field and want their communication to match. Founders, executives, directors, lawyers, consultants, investors, academics and high-potential leaders. If you are walking into a role, a board, a pitch, a keynote or a career transition, this is designed for you.
Both. I work with first-language English speakers who want sharper executive presence and clearer structure, and with highly proficient non-native speakers whose expertise is already strong but whose English does not yet carry it. The methodology is the same; the emphasis is tailored to what is limiting you personally — whether that is tone, structure, influence, composure or something else.
Only when they are directly blocking your message. This is not a language school approach. We work on the communication behaviours that change outcomes: how you sequence a point, hold your position under pushback, calibrate certainty, and make a recommendation that moves a decision. Grammar is addressed in context, not as a syllabus.
All sessions are live and one-to-one, delivered by video on Google Meet. The work between sessions is delivered through The Studio. Programmes run as weekly memberships (25- or 50-minute sessions), as a structured 12-week Intensive (weekly 50-minute sessions), or as the twice-weekly Strategic Communication Programme (two 50-minute sessions a week for twelve weeks), depending on your situation and the outcome you are preparing for.
We begin with a 20-minute diagnostic call by video. A €50 deposit secures the time and is credited in full against your programme if you go ahead. Cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours before and the deposit is refunded in full; if you don't attend, or join more than 10 minutes late, it is retained. In the call you describe what you are walking into; I tell you what I observe and recommend one programme. If we proceed, you choose the payment structure that fits your schedule.
Weekly Express is €260 a month (four 25-minute sessions). Deep Weekly is €520 a month (four 50-minute sessions). The 12-Week Intensive is €1,560, payable in full or in instalments, and includes a baseline assessment, a written development plan, Studio rehearsal scenarios and a reassessment at week twelve. The flagship Strategic Communication Programme runs twice weekly for twelve weeks (24 sessions plus a companion workbook): €3,900 for the Executive Edition and €4,800 for the Advanced Executive Edition, each payable in full or in three monthly payments. All programmes include your personal workbook and access to The Studio. Invoices are available for company expensing.
You book each session yourself from my live availability, and you can cancel a session up to 24 hours beforehand. Monthly memberships can be cancelled at any time; access continues until the end of the period you have paid for, and unused sessions roll over for one month.
Your next step
Start with a diagnostic call.
Twenty minutes, private and direct. You describe what you're walking into; I tell you what's actually limiting the way it lands, and which programme fits.
What happens next
- Step 1: Book a 20-minute call (€50, credited to your programme)
- Step 2: I diagnose what's costing you and recommend one programme
- Step 3: You decide. Start when it suits you.
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