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Barbara helps business leaders and professional speakers to tell their stories with confidence, clarity and impact. As a former Global Account Manager, being American and living in The Netherlands for many years, has given her a unique perspective on multi cultural communication.
Barbara is an American executive and speaker coach for Fortune 500 companies in Europe such as Deloitte, ING, Shell and Microsoft and is based in The Netherlands. She helps business leaders and professional speakers to tell their stories with confidence, clarity and impact. As a former Global Account Manager, being American and living in The Netherlands for many years, has given her a unique perspective on multi cultural communication.
As a recognized Senior TEDx coach, Barbara has coached more than 200 TEDx speakers in 25 TEDx events, with her company Successful Speaker Now. Her wide range of knowledge about effective communication, combined with her down-to-earth, supportive style of coaching, makes her a well respected and sought after coach for 1:1 coaching, group training or corporate events.
She is an executive presence coach and has trained hundreds of executives of Fortune 500 companies such as Deloitte, ING, Shell, DSM, Media Markt and many others. She is a Senior TEDx Speaker coach of 200+ speakers and is a published author of the book Boring to Brilliant! An Inspirational Guide for Speakers. Her great passion is to help speakers not be boring, but present with confidence and impact and to help businesswomen at all stages of their careers to speak up for what they want.
Meaningful presentations are not about showing how much the speaker knows. They are always about the audience: how to inform them, engage them and influence them.
“Your session was the perfect kick-off of our conference and many of our attendees kept refferring to it during the two following days”
“I was invited to do a TEDx talk at short notice. I had a powerful message I wanted to share, but I knew I needed help to shape it into something truly impactful. So I booked a Finishing Touch session with Barbara. Barbara was fantastic. In just one session, she helped me bring clarity and structure to my story. We worked through what to keep, what to cut, and how to make it land with the audience. Her insights were sharp, her energy was reassuring, and the session gave me the confidence I needed to step on that stage fully prepared. I can’t recommend Barbara highly enough. She’s the real deal.”
"Barbara helped me prepare for an important Board presentation with only a couple weeks notice. She helped me transform my dry, fact-based presentation into a compelling celebration of how my team was responding to consumer opportunities with connected experiences. Barbara's framework & coaching gave me huge confidence and really set me up for success on the day. And, I'm still using the lessons she shared to this day."