Individual · Coaching
Individual Coaching
For experts, founders, and leaders preparing a specific high-stakes presentation, or wanting to become more impactful communicators.
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You Master Your Field. Now Master the Room.
4.7★
(288)
avg. satisfaction
Clarity
Presence
Connection
I help experts and leaders deliver presentations that drive buy-in.
Because when the moment comes to speak in a boardroom, on stage, or in front of a client, your ideas should land with the impact they deserve.
TRUSTED BY EXPERTS AND TEAMS AT
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See what working with Impactful Speaking looks like.
More useful than any brochure. Watch this before you book: it'll show you the method, the people it's built for, and what it actually produces.
Three ways to work together
Built for experts. Proven in boardrooms and on stage.
Whether you're coaching one leader, training a team, or learning at your own pace — the IS Method gives experts the communication edge they're missing.
Teams · Workshops
Group Workshops & Masterclass
For teams, departments, and groups who need to build communication capability at scale, quickly and durably.
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Corporate
Corporate Programs
For L&D managers, HR leaders, and companies who want to fast-track their employees into powerful communicators that brings results.
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Online program
Impactful Speakers Lab (Online Program & Practice)
Self-paced communication program with bi-weekly live practice sessions. Presentation Clinics, guided small-group practice, and tactical feedback where professionals work on real presentations and communication challenges together. Designed for professionals who want to actively practice communication, not just study it.
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The gap
You have the knowledge, yet sometimes it does not come across.
Most experts experience the Curse of Knowledge: the gap between what's clear in our mind and what lands in the room. That gap is closable, if it has a structure.
"You prepared. It still came out wrong."
The preparation was there, but when the moment arrived, something else took the best of you.
"Your audience gets lost on complex slides."
You built a deck that covers everything. The audience is either lost or stuck in the details.
"Rehearsal feels like going in circles."
More rehearsal produced the same result. Repetition without method isn't the answer.
"You start dreading speaking altogether."
You know which conversations could change things, yet you find reasons to defer them.
The IS Method
Not Another Soft-Skills Course:
Not Another Soft-Skills Course:
actionable frameworks rooted in practical techniques.
Communication is a technical skill. Like mathematics or engineering, it has rules, structure, and learnable levers. The IS Method gives you the map.
01
Clarity
Logos — the architecture of ideas
Build messages that are clear before they are clever. Every talk, pitch, and update has an underlying architecture. We make yours explicit.
02
Presence
Ethos — the authority you project
Presence is not putting on a show. It is the alignment between your body, voice, and intention. Techniques, not talent.
03
Connection
Pathos — the resonance with your audience
Your audience's trust is not given. It is built through specificity, relevance, and a demonstration that you understand their world.
The Impactful Speaking Difference
Our difference
Traditional training
Impactful Speaking
Approach
Generic tips & best practices
Personalised structured method
Built for
General audiences
Expert minds and analytical thinkers
Timeframe
Big Bang without follow-up
Refresher sessions to anchor skills
Result
Temporary confidence boost
Durable, transferable skill
Delivery
In-person workshop only
Hybrid remote/on-site for adaptability
For professional setting
Built for when it truly matters: boards, clients, committees...
High-stakes presentations rarely happen on a conference stage. They happen in boardrooms, client meetings, investor pitches, or trade shows. Our approach focuses on actual professional settings. It makes you stand out on stage, but differentiates you even more at a board meeting.
"You won't sound like a TED speaker. You'll sound like the most prepared version of yourself."
Trade show floor · Drupa 2024
Expert coaching
TEDx stage · Lausanne
Team workshop
Masterclass · BOBST
Find yourself here
For experts and leaders in the field
The IS Method adapts to where you are and what you need to communicate. Choose the profile that fits.
12+
Years
coaching
coaching
PhD in Mathematics
Innovation Consultant
Theater & Improv
TEDx Coach
The founder
By someone who's been in the room like you.
Damien Gauthier is bridging two worlds: mathematician PhD from EPFL turned IT consultant and UX designer on one hand; professional actor, director, TEDx curator and speaker coach on the other.
He created the Impactful Speaking Method to fill the gap between public speaking and the business world, blending secrets from consulting, acting techniques, cognitive science, storytelling frameworks, and 12 years of corporate experience.
His focus is on public speaking as a strategic communication device, not as performance: structuring ideas to build a clear message, creating presence to build credibility, and delivering presentations that feel fully authentic.
Mathematics
IT Consulting
Theater & Improv
TEDx Coaching
UX Design
Psychology
Lean & Design Thinking
Trusted by
Case study
Stories from the field.
The proof is in the work. Documented outcomes, real clients, measurable results.
Manufacturing · Trade show
BOBST × Drupa 2024 — 64 Experts. 3 Days. 4.8/5.
Drupa is the most important commercial event in the print industry, held once every four years in Dusseldorf. BOBST needed 64 technical experts to present with confidence, clarity, and commercial impact on the booth floor. We built a hybrid program mixing remote training and coaching, live bootcamp in Switzerland and Italy and presence in Dusseldorf for three days before drupa's launch. The result: measurably prepared, measurably better.
64 experts trained
4.8/5 satisfaction
4x deals in 2 days
Hybrid format
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"I did many public speaking and communication courses, that's the first time I can actually take away something."
“I was fearing having to present before that. Now I look forward to opportunities to talk.”
Ready?
Your next high-stakes moment is closer than you think.
A 30-minute discovery call is the beginning. No sales, no empty promises: we figure out together whether there's a fit, and what working together could look like.