Speaking is the skill everything else depends on.
Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to express them.
Communication coaching for professionals and emerging leaders.
Mary Falkenstern, MS, CCC-SLP
I work with professionals when the gap between their caliber and how they come across is costing them.
I'm an executive communication coach with clinical training in speech-language pathology at the MGH Voice Center, a Harvard and MIT affiliate. For 15 years I’ve worked privately with senior professionals in finance and Fortune 500 companies.
I specialize in the nuanced speaking demands that most coaches aren't trained to address — accent optimization, cluttering and dysfluent speech, vocal fry, and reserved or introverted leaders navigating high-visibility roles.
Clients credit this work with promotions, new mandates, and media appearances that positioned them as the go-to voice in their field.
"Communication had always been my weakness. After six sessions with Mary, I started noticing real improvement — more engagement with clients, more presence in my presentations. Our work together enabled me to step into the next level of my career. Effective, impactful communication has now become one of my strengths and part of my core brand."
— VP promoted to Managing Director, leading global advisory firmRead the Room
Each episode, I study a voice that shaped a room, an industry, or a moment in history. What made it work. What made it fall apart. And what we can learn from it.