The Speaking Flow · Authority Under Pressure

Your expertise deserves to be heard.

When the stakes rise, your English should not make you sound less senior, less decisive or less expert than you really are.

Which best describes your situation?

Choose the route that matches what you need now. Begin with a free five-minute diagnostic, or work with Richard directly on an important communication that is already approaching.

I want to understand the problem

The Authority Gap Diagnostic

Discover where your expertise loses impact when you communicate in English.

Free · approximately 5 minutes
  • Identify where pressure changes the way you communicate
  • Recognise the pattern most likely to reduce your impact
  • Clarify what to focus on first
  • Receive one practical recommendation you can apply immediately
This is the right place to start if:

You are curious about your Authority Gap, want a quick diagnosis, or are exploring whether personalised support would be useful.

Take the free diagnostic
I have an important meeting approaching

The Authority Audit

A focused one-to-one review of your next high-stakes communication.

€250 · 60-minute personal session
  • Analyse where authority and clarity may be reduced
  • Work directly on your real board meeting, presentation or discussion
  • Identify the single change likely to make the greatest difference
  • Leave with practical exercises and a clear action plan
This is the right place to start if:

Your board meeting, Executive Committee presentation, investor event or other important communication is within the next few weeks.

Book your Authority Audit

Designed for moments where your words carry consequences.

For senior professionals who already know their subject and already use English professionally—but do not want language pressure to reduce how their expertise, judgement and leadership are perceived.

Board meetings
Executive Committees
Annual results
Investor days
Global summits
High-stakes Q&A
Leadership interviews
International presentations
About Richard

Richard Doust

Richard is a multilingual business coach, leadership facilitator and performer. He helps senior leaders, consultants and technical experts ensure that their expertise has the same authority and impact in English as it does in their first language.

His approach combines executive coaching, voice and prosody, narrative, realistic simulations and performance practice—because authority is communicated through far more than vocabulary and grammar.

“I do not teach people to perform authority. I help them remove what prevents their existing authority from being heard.”

Choose where you would like to begin.

Explore your Authority Gap in five minutes, or prepare your next important communication with personalised support.

Take the free diagnostic Book the €250 Audit