Team
Our team blends stage craft, executive presence, and strategic communication to help leaders deliver with clarity. Explore the bios, client wins, and testimonials behind Susie Ashfield's trusted coaching team.
Trusted Speech & Communication Experts
From executive presence to storytelling, the team supports leaders across stages, screens, and boardrooms worldwide.
Speech Coach
Speech Coach dedicated to helping industry leaders, corporate executives, and public figures look good, sound good, and feel great about public speaking.
She has been extensively featured on BBC Radio 2, Forbes Magazine, Elle, Telegraph, The Times, Daily Mail, Independent and the New York Post, and in numerous high-profile podcasts.
Susie has amassed over 1 million views on TikTok and is a regular on the speaker circuit, having given talks on stages worldwide, from Adidas to Rolls Royce, and at academic institutions, from Kings College London to the University of Cambridge.
Susie lives in Notting Hill, London and her first book, 'Just F**king Say It', is set to be published 21st May, 2025.
Susie helps me prepare, practice and perfect the content and delivery to ensure I give my best possible performance. Working with her saves me time, raises my profile and means I'm constantly improving, talk after talk. Susie is with me every step of the way which gives me confidence to deliver an inspiring message with total authenticity.
Rob Gardner, Chief Investment Officer St James's Place
Susie helped me harness my authenticity as a presenter and storyteller, which I've learnt is much more impactful than the details I was so hung up on.
Jill Trainor, Global Marketing Operation Manager Google
Susie is a highly competent and engaging coach. She has extensive experience, offers inspired insights and provides constructive advice. Strongly recommend.
Dr Richard Wilson OBE, CEO of TIGA
Leading Associate Trainer
Kat Engall is a powerhouse in the art of communication. With a background in professional acting and years of experience coaching high-achieving clients, she transforms the way people speak, present, and connect with their audiences. From doctors, lawyers, and TEDx speakers to actors, entrepreneurs, and vocalists, Kat's clients trust her to unlock their full potential and elevate their voices.
Her expertise spans storytelling for compelling presentations, vocal coaching for clarity and confidence, and techniques that harness breath and diction for maximum impact. Whether she's guiding a CEO preparing for a keynote or an emerging leader stepping into the spotlight for the first time, Kat's methods empower people to speak with confidence.
Kat's journey began in drama school and on stage, but early on in her career she discovered that the tools of performance - presence, voice, and narrative - were not just for actors; they could revolutionize everyday communication. That realization sparked a career that has since grown into a thriving coaching practice.
Renowned for her warmth and energy, Kat builds lasting relationships with clients, helping them inspire their teams, own the room at conferences, and deliver messages that truly resonate. Her mission is simple yet transformative: to give people the confidence to communicate with impact.
Kat tailored her sessions to our participants in a very supportive manner, addressing areas of development to explore with each member within the session before delving into constructive exercises. She made sure to circle back round on their goals outlined at the beginning and made sure everyone felt supported and listened to throughout, as well as highlighting the power and value of various presentation skills, giving real life examples, which proved to be an incredibly poignant reminder.
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Associate Trainer and Facilitator
Max is a highly experienced communication trainer and facilitator specialising in presentation skills, leadership communication, and executive presence. Over the past 17 years, he has helped people present with clarity, authenticity, and impact.
Max draws on a substantial career as a professional stage and screen actor to bring presence, adaptability, and emotional intelligence into his training. He enjoys supporting professionals who often know their subject inside out but do not always feel at ease presenting it. He is particularly effective at helping people structure their content, find the "why", manage nerves, and deliver with confidence that feels natural and authentic.
Max has held senior leadership roles in the arts and education sectors. This gives him a deep understanding of the pressures people are under and allows him to bring a calm, practical, and supportive presence to the room.
Known for his warm and grounded facilitation style, Max creates spaces where people feel comfortable to try things out, make mistakes, and improve quickly - leaving them fully equipped to engage audiences, convey their message clearly, and make a lasting impression.
This was one of the most eventful and memorable workshops I have ever attended. Max helped the team feel extremely comfortable and at ease throughout the whole workshop which allowed us to do our best work throughout the day. I will be applying all the big and small things I learned from every exercise on a day-to-day basis, it reminded me of the importance of preparation, of understanding our audience and ensuring that we create an impact.
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Associate Trainer and Coach
Josh Roche is an award winning international theatre director, who has retooled his skills into a thriving practice as a speech and communications coach.
Josh directs theatrical productions in London and New York with companies like the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sonia Friedman Productions and the Young Vic, directing actors like Mark Rylance and Erin Doherty. He also teaches and directs regularly at drama schools like RADA and LAMDA.
This expertise fuels his work as a speech coach. He works with a wide range of clients including C-suite executives, elite athletes, curators, software developers, consultants, creatives and more, providing them with a deep, technical understanding of the mechanics of communication. His goal is to help clients come across as believable and human, whatever the context.
It was brilliant to work with Josh to practice and improve my public speaking, presentation, articulation and planning skills. The combination of theatre style performance, script writing and corporate delivery was both unique and an incredibly useful and fun process to work through with real practical feedback that I will continue to practice and take forward.
James, CEO, Neural Alpha
I found Josh's training very useful, especially the part about setting the intention and emotional connection with the presentation audience. In any job we do half the battle is communicating such that the message lands. He explained that and then practiced frequently with us over the two-day training.
Managing Consultant, 6point6 Part of Accenture
