You lead a call and the client directs questions to someone else.
You make the point. The room moves on. Someone else says it minutes later and gets the credit.
The expertise is there. Your delivery isn't carrying it.
Private voice coaching for senior professionals in finance.
You said it. It didn't land.
We pinpoint exactly where the breakdown is and what to do about it.
“After working with Mary I started confidently leading meetings and saw a clear increase in client engagement. Our work together enabled me to step into the next level of my career.”
— VP promoted to Managing Director, leading global advisory firmMary Falkenstern, MS, CCC-SLP
Trained at the MGH Voice Center, Harvard/MIT affiliate. Certified in accent modification. Fifteen years working privately with senior professionals in finance: Associate to VP, VP to MD, economists and specialists stepping into public visibility.
Clients credit this work with promotions, mandates, and the rooms that changed their careers.
Most senior professionals have never been trained on their voice. Not once.
The work operates on three levels.
Your Presence: the physical voice itself. How it carries, where it breaks, what it does under pressure.
Your Perception: how you read the room and how the room reads you.
Your Perspective: how you guide listeners through your thinking. The pacing and dynamics that make the difference between being heard and being remembered.
When all three are aligned, you navigate any room on your own terms.
How we work is based on what you need and how quickly you want to move.
Voice Intensive
A focused, 90-minute session to diagnose your voice and give you a clear plan for your next high-stakes moment.
Private Voice Series
Ongoing private work designed to change how you show up in moments that matter most for you— presentations, promotion tracks, client conversations.
For firm engagements — mary@speaksenseagency.com
Read the Room
Each episode, I study a voice that changed a room. And what it can teach you about your own.