Most speaking coaches count your filler words. I direct you.
I’m Ron Ben-Joseph, a theater-trained director who has coached women leaders in public speaking and executive communication for over 15 years, one-on-one, virtually across the United States and in person near Denver, Colorado.
As the founder of Artful Speaking, I direct you the way I’d direct an actor, take by take, until the real you shows up and your performance insecurities fall to the wayside.
You’ve been told to slow down. Make eye contact. Cut the filler. Project confidence.
You did all of it, and the talk still came out sounding like a talk. Like someone doing an impression of a confident person.
Rules describe what good looks like from the outside. They cannot build a trust-based connection with your audience nor tell a story.
I offer two forms of one-on-one communication coaching, separated by the room you walk into.
The keynote, the TEDx talk, the conference, the recorded webinar or live on-camera interview. We rework the talk until it sounds like you rather than like a speech, on a stage or on camera.
The board update, the partner meeting, the investor conversation, the moment someone asks what you do. We run through your messaging and pull out the 30- and 10-second versions.
A technique coach gives you rules. Stand here. Pause there. Cut the “um.”
A director watches you and identifies the moments you “came to life” during your talk. He then asks you how these moments made you feel, and ties those feelings into the delivery of your entire presentation. Rules produce a performance. Direction produces the version of you your clients already trust, scaled up to a room of two hundred people.
“He helped me with a longstanding problem of using a performative voice instead of my authentic voice. He worked me through the blocks that were keeping me from being my best self as a speaker.”
I work with women leaders across professional services: therapists, practice owners, consultants, coaches, accountants, fractional CFOs, HR consultants, fractional CHROs, attorneys, nonprofit executives, and physicians.
I teach my clients to take up space.
Coaching runs as four 60-minute one-on-one sessions a month, month to month, with no contract and no minimum.
Month to month means you are never paying for coaching that has stopped working. I’m proud to say my clients stay with me for years and join my professional network for years after.
For the full range, see my coaching and executive communication services. If you need finished footage rather than coaching, media training, or camera prep, see my video production and speaker reel services. Find me on LinkedIn!
Ron Ben-Joseph is a theater-trained executive public speaking coach with over 15 years of professional experience. He is the founder of Artful Speaking, a one-on-one public speaking and executive communication coaching practice for leaders across professional services in the United States.
Ron is based near Denver, Colorado, and coaches clients across the United States. Sessions are virtual by default.
Work is typically one-on-one. Ron offers very limited group programs, because the work depends on adapting to one person's material and objective in real time.
You bring live material, a talk or a pitch you are dreading. You deliver it, Ron stops you, names what he sees, and you run it again. Most clients notice a shift in the first session because the work is on the real thing rather than on exercises.
Ron began his career directing for the stage and camera, and media preparation is part of his one-on-one coaching: podcast and press interviews, recorded webinars, video messages, and any talk that will be filmed.
Artful Speaking also offers separate video production and speaker reel editing for clients who need finished footage rather than coaching.
Spend 30 minutes in a free working session. Bring the talk you are dreading or the pitch that keeps falling flat. You talk, I stop you, we go again. You leave with something you can use.
Month to month if you continue. No contract, no minimum, and nothing gets sold to you on this call.
