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Executive Presence Coaching for Leaders, Speakers and Teams
Speak with clarity, authority, and humanity in high-stakes moments, from boardrooms and conferences to pitches, interviews, and media appearances.
Trusted by leaders, executives and professional teams across Ireland for voice, presence and high-stakes communication coaching.
Speech & Presence
Driven by the values of embodied empathy, equality and ethical leadership, Speech and Presence is a trusted partner of local and global business leaders and teams to raise the standards of spoken communication, executive presence and humanity centred potential.
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Stand out Humanity in the Age of AI.
meet Mark
PRA, Patsy Rodenburg Associate
Speech and Presence Expert
Voice Coach, Ireland
Mark Downey
Mark Downey is a multi-certified Voice, Speech and Presence Coach and Trainer. His passion is to bring out his clients’ latent potential to communicate their messages with authority, humanity and confidence. He also guides his clients to get to the heart of their message quickly and build a bridge to their audience. He guides them to infuse their content with narrative, structure and economy of language. His current quest is to bring more human-centric, common-sense communication standards to the remote and hybrid meetings environment.
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Our Clients Say
“Mark Downey provides incisive coaching to untap the latent capacity of our executives to be both present in the moment and using the power of their voice to reveal their authentic self. Mark combines an intellectual framework along with practical routines to provide executives with the confidence to be leaders in a multitude of situations. I personally benefited from honing my public speaking experience to be a better communicator. I would recommend Speech and Presence to be a trusted business partner.”
Danny McCoy, CEO, Ibec, Dublin, Ireland