Transform Your Life With PRESENCE,
Fill It With IMPACT
What is this thing called Presence?
It’s this subtle and powerful aspect of your communication – and is often noticed in you by others even before you speaking a word. Everyone can find it.
First, and foremost, it’s where you put your attention. The world tells us to embody “Look at me!”
What if we were to embody “There you are!”?
When we attend to our presence – a deeper way of listening
– we connect to ourselves and other people in a more meaningful way.
Hello, I’m Martha.
I reside in New York City.
I am deeply devoted to having my clients present and project themselves in the most powerful way possible.
I coach and facilitate communication skills with a special focus on the non-verbal. When this aligns with the messages you create – those which connect to the real needs of your listener, you have complete communication.
The programs in Presence exist to bring you greater mastery and skill when in environments that throw you into uncertainty at any given moment.
I offer coaching and training courses where you are able to find a more powerful Presence with great impact.
How do you do this?
Actually, my clients do it themselves. They use the distinctive, proven skills & practices offered and coached. They apply them. First, by getting the language and narrative right & resonant. Then, with their presence, impact & physical expression.
Today, with so many distractions, it seems that capturing and holding someone’s attention is wildly challenging. When you show up to them as fully open, present and connected to yourself and to them, you are seen and heard by your listeners and all while holding great ease, comfort and confidence.
It begins with building rapport – even with diverse audiences. When you master this, your ideas are more readily accepted; and you make your unique contributions.
My clients tell me that they feel more comfortable in their skin. Their work relationships have improved and that they are now seen as the expert they are. Whether you are in school or in business, your impact is needed. Stand out.
“We are having to develop a new resiliency, adaptability and the great power to change things, to create things, and to bring more opportunity and joy to others.“
Jacqueline Hobbs
Work with me
Supporting people to get their messages and voice heard – and acted upon – so that they can make their contribution and enjoy their work with great comfort, ease and confidence.
The coaching and courses offered are well-suited to help leaders, business people, students, women, and others express themselves with a true and powerful presence. Special attention given to physical presence with a straightforward approach and defined process for you to get yourselves heard.
What My Clients Are Saying
Frequently Asked Questions
What is this thing called Presence?
It’s this subtle and powerful aspect of your communication – and is often noticed in you by others even before you speaking a word.
Everyone can find it.
First, and foremost, it’s where you put your attention. The world tells us to embody “Look at me!” What if we were to embody “There you are!”?
When we attend to our presence – a deeper way of listening
– we connect to ourselves and other people in a more meaningful way.
Why be Present?
Our interactions are relational, not transactional.
What happens when we offer our distraction rather than our full attention? We lose the trust of others. To be present is to give attention and to take attention in equal measure. It’s a deeper form of listening.
Why would I want to focus on my Presence?
There are many reasons.
Here’s one: When your body is misaligned with your intention, it creates an incongruence that potentially produces a lack of trust from your listener.
People believe what they see more than what they hear. If an inconsistency incongruency exists, they may not accept what you say as true.
What does it take to have Presence and Impact?
When one become fully connected to one self, then they can connect to another person in a more meaningful way. The coaching and training programs offer you insights and practices to get you there. We work into an ease and comfort and what is authentically you and your unique personality.
The name of the game is connection. We, in our essence, are human beings. We are a species of animal who at the core communicates with others to find safety, security, companionship, community, and trust.
Do you have to be a leader to need Presence and Impact?
Absolutely not. We don’t need to be a leader by title or role. It has nothing to do with rank. To paraphrase Simon Sinek’s What makes a great leader?
“Some sit at the highest level of an organization and they are not leaders. We do as they tell us because they hold authority but we do not trust them.”
He goes on to say: “There are those who are at the lower levels of the organization who have no formal authority but they have made a choice to look after the person to the left of them and to look after the person to the right of them and we would follow them anywhere.
Leadership is the awesome responsibility to see those around us rise. Every one of us can choose to be the leader we wished we had. We will lead our teams and our clients when we do everything in our power to see them rise – to see them achieve their ambitions and their dreams.”
I’ve found that people look for the body of a leader. If they don’t find it, they move on.
What’s the difference between Presence and Impact?
Presence is a state of alignment with your physical. It’s a deeper form of listening. Impact is the effect that it has on the listener. It can also have a physical component to it as well.
Why Vocal Presence?
We must get ourselves heard at the back of the room. I’ve noticed that even the most seemingly powerful person can retract their voice in some way. If our listener cannot hear us or experience our resonance and our breath is cut off, they may not have the psychic energy to struggle to tune in. They can simply give up.
What does it look like to work on this?
When you join a course, a class or coaching, you bring your real life, real-time situations. The principles and practices are applied directly to the outcomes you seek. It’s not theoretical nor hypothetical. You are able to take away those applications that work for you. And then you use them over and over again until it becomes second nature.
What would characterize your style?
I don’t do anything unless it involves a measure of fun. I like to say, “It’s not brain surgery.” Why not relax and have fun learning and not take ourselves so darn seriously.