Executive presence coaching
The same preparation and presence work actors use, applied to the meetings, interviews, and pitches where you need to show up fully — not generic leadership theory, and not a script to memorize.
Presence isn't charisma you either have or don't. It's a set of learnable skills: how you use your voice, how you handle your nerves, how prepared you are, and how willing you are to be a real person in front of other people.
Actors have spent a century developing techniques for exactly this — staying grounded under pressure, making bold choices, and being genuinely present with another person instead of performing at them. Those techniques transfer directly to the interview, the pitch, or the meeting that actually matters.
This isn't business strategy or career consulting. It's craft: breath, pacing, preparation, and the confidence that comes from having done the work. If what you need is help being clearer, steadier, and more yourself under pressure, that's what these sessions are for.
Sessions
Voice and delivery
Breath support, pace, pitch, and articulation. How to be heard clearly without straining, and how to use a pause instead of rushing to fill it.
Preparing for the moment that matters
Interviews, pitches, performance reviews, a talk you're giving. We work through the material until you know it well enough to stop thinking about the words and start connecting with the person across from you.
Presence and trust under pressure
What to do with nerves, how to recover when something goes sideways, and how to stay recognizably yourself in a room that makes you want to be someone else. People trust you faster when you're actually present — this is how you get there.
Not sure if this is the right fit, or just have questions? Get in touch — I'm happy to talk it through before you book anything.
Meet your coach
Matt Godfrey is an Odyssey and Earphones Award-winning, Audie-nominated audiobook narrator with over 300 titles to his credit. He holds a degree in theater and spent nine years as a working actor in Los Angeles, with training in classical technique from coaches in LA and New York.
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he works with clients in person and worldwide via Zoom, teaching the Prep + Presence approach that helps people show up as the most prepared, most authentic version of themselves.