Chief executives
People whose every sentence is read for signal, and who rarely get a straight answer about how they come across.
Private advisory
Work with Julian one to one.
The higher you go, the less anyone tells you the truth about how you communicate, but the more impact it has. Private advisory is a confidential space to work on your listening, speaking and presenting skills, with someone who has spent four decades on these subjects and delivered with resounding success on some of the world's leading stages.
It's not a course. It's counsel, built around the conversations and events that carry the most weight for you.
Who this is for
Senior leaders stepping up
A new role, a bigger room, an audience that doesn't yet know you. The skills that got you here aren't the ones you now need.
Anyone with a high-stakes moment ahead
An investor round, a keynote, a TEDx talk, a wedding speech, a difficult upcoming conversation.
What the work covers
Every engagement is different, because every leader arrives with a different gap between what they mean and what people hear. The material is the Conscious Communication Framework™, applied to you.
Listening: how you take in what your organisation is telling you, and what your listening does to the people speaking. Speaking: the voice as an instrument, and the four things that make speech land. Presenting: what changes when you stand in front of many, from a town hall to a keynote. And optimising the sound of the rooms you put people in, which dramatically improves their happiness, effectiveness and wellbeing.
Some of the work is preparation for specific moments. Most of it is habit, because communication isn't a performance you switch on.
How it works
- 1
An application
A short form, so the first conversation starts somewhere useful rather than at the beginning.
- 2
A discovery call
Forty-five minutes with Julian on what you want to change and whether this is the right way to change it.
- 3
A tailored engagement
Built around your real conversations and real events, not a curriculum. Usually a few months rather than a few hours.
- 4
The work itself
Sessions before and after the moments that matter, with material you keep.
Questions leaders ask
Is this coaching?
Not in the usual sense. Coaching tends to be a course of sessions with a structure. This is counsel: a senior adviser you bring into the conversations and events that carry the most weight.
What does it cost?
The fee is set against what the work is worth to you, which is a conversation rather than a price list. That conversation happens on the discovery call.
How long does an engagement run?
Most run for a few months. Some are built around a single event. A few have run for years.
Where does it happen?
Mostly by video, wherever you are. In person when the occasion justifies it.
Is it confidential?
Completely. Nothing is used as a case study, and no client is named without their written agreement.