Lead with your voice.
What if you could share your ideas more clearly and articulately?
What if your words could cut through jargon, clichés, and noise?
Find your leadership voice so you can drive change, growth, and action.
Reveal your leadership voice
Do you have ideas you know deep down could help advance your career, grow your business, inspire change, or solve a big problem?
Perhaps that means you want to speak more confidently at your next company all-hands meeting. Maybe you want to deliver a more focused and actionable presentation to your company leadership. Or you might want to crush that next conference keynote or breakout presentation.
But, have you ever felt like:
You’re not getting buy-in from others
You’re too weighed down by clichés and jargon
You’re stuck trying to make your ideas relatable to others
You don’t know if you’re focused on the most meaningful takeaways
Your calls to action are too confusing
You sound hesitant and unconfident
I am a speaking and communications coach, but unlike other coaches, only I apply the approach of an investigative journalist to help you uncover the most captivating, relatable, and action-oriented details from your story and message.
I’ve been a leader and executive for 15+ years now at companies ranging from startups to large private equity-backed ventures, and I’ve been in your shoes.
The insights you’ll gain from our collaboration will help you mold and shape your leadership communication into a style that helps you achieve your goals (we’ll strategize on those as well).
Request a free 30-minute consultation
“From the moment I met Michael he has inspired me in both my personal and professional goals! As an HR executive, communication is essential, and Michael has helped to guide me through arduous situations, while coaching me on paths to create truly positive growth.”
— Kimberly Haines, MS-HRM
“Working with Michael was such a positive experience! I reached out to him because I wanted to improve my communication skills and overall confidence across multiple areas of my life. Even though my request was a bit atypical, Michael carefully crafted a coaching curriculum that was uniquely catered to me. Every lesson had a theme and purpose and it was evident that he had put in the time and effort to ensure I was getting the most benefit. … I would highly recommend his services!”
— Alyssa Holland
“Michael Ashford is such an incredible leader, coach, communicator, and human that it is difficult to summarize the impact he has on others. I have been fortunate enough to work with Michael on various projects and I have been nothing short of enchanted by his thoughtfulness, his wisdom, his guidance, and his ability to consider every person in the room's perspective.”
— Mikki Gates
How my coaching can help you
You and I will work together to create a coaching experience specific to your goals.
Here are some areas in which I can provide guidance:
Presenting to Stakeholders
Have an upcoming presentation or keynote at an important conference? Or maybe you’re getting ready to pitch your company to investors. I’ll work with you to help you be more confident in the ideas you wish to share, more relatable through the insights you share, and more compelling in the calls to action you create, whether you’re speaking at the front of a crowded room or in a board room.
Confidence and Presence
Whether in the board room, in a team meeting, or in front of the entire company, I’ll help you uncover ways to more clearly communicate your thoughts, perspective, and vision so you can put others at ease, inspire action, and foster mutually beneficial connections.
Also, I’ll help you be more at ease with on-the-fly speaking, as well as asking and answering questions.
Conflict Communication
I’ll partner with you to help you grasp how to clearly articulate your thoughts and emotions during tense or heated discussions to help lower the temperature of the conversation and promote effective conflict resolution.
What you’ll receive during coaching
6-session package
A FREE initial goal and strategy-setting session to outline an engagement roadmap, set realistic and actionable goals, and review my fundamentals of effective communication.
An in-depth deep-dive session where I’ll interview you to help you clarify your goals, thoughts, ideas, and messaging, as well as identify challenges and obstacles.
Asynchronous messaging and chatting to keep things moving forward, to ask questions, to share ideas, and to share feedback.
Five 60-minute follow-up calls to review progress, check in on expectations, and practice learned skills.
Actionable next steps at the end to keep the communication growth going!
3-session package
A FREE initial goal and strategy-setting session to outline an engagement roadmap, set realistic and actionable goals, and review my fundamentals of effective communication.
An in-depth deep-dive session where I’ll interview you to help you clarify your goals, thoughts, ideas, and messaging, as well as identify challenges and obstacles.
Asynchronous messaging and chatting to keep things moving forward, to ask questions, to share ideas, and to share feedback.
Two 60-minute follow-up calls to review progress, check in on expectations, and practice learned skills.
Actionable next steps at the end to keep the communication growth going!
Deep-dive interview session
A FREE initial goal and strategy-setting session to outline an engagement roadmap, set realistic and actionable goals, and review my fundamentals of effective communication.
An in-depth deep-dive session where I’ll interview you to help you clarify your goals, thoughts, ideas, and messaging, as well as identify challenges and obstacles.
Actionable next steps at the end to keep the communication growth going!
Request a free 30-minute consultation
FAQs
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A 6-session individual coaching engagement costs $1,299.
A 3-session engagement is $899.
A single deep-dive interview session is $350.
If you’re interested in group coaching or shorter, workshop-style engagements for a group or your company, fill out the interest form and let’s chat!
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I’ve worked with everyone from CEOs, students, doctors, non-profit leaders, consultants, and other coaches. What you do doesn’t matter as much as your desire to communicate your story and ideas in a clearer way.
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My coaching is highly personalized to you and your situation. I want to maximize our time together while not negatively impacting other areas of your life.
This means that our coaching calls will mold around our mutually beneficial schedules, and I’ll be available to you through asynchronous messaging and emails.
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Most of my coaching is done virtually. However, if you live in the Denver, Colorado, area or if your company wants to discuss an in-person coaching option, I’m happy to collaborate on a solution with you.
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As much or as little as you want. If you have a prepared talk or scenarios you want more specific help with, I’m game!
However, if you and I are working on a talk, it’s best to at least have an idea of what you want to talk about.