Emma

Experienced and Qualified Accent and Business English coach (MA, MEng, CELTA)

Hello there! Does speaking English make you nervous because of your accent? Do you want to be more confident in meetings and presentations?

My name is Emma and I am a professional Accent and Business English coach.

To help you sound like a native English speaker I will use my experience training executives and actors to find fun ways to help you understand what you already do when you speak and what you can do! Then you can practice and I will support you with exercises, texts, audio media, videos.. Every week we will do recordings and I will help you hear what the native English speakers hear.

I have learnt my coaching skills over years of practice, my Master’s in Training Actors in Voice and Accent from the Guildhall conservatoire and working with executives from many industries: Banking, Legal and Regulatory, Healthcare and Cancer Research, Cosmetics, Renewable Energy, Railway, Hospitality,..

For Business English, you get my experience of working in five languages in management while implementing the strategy of an international train production company. The lesson will start by you presenting for me or running through a meeting in English. I can provide examples but I encourage students to bring their work so that they can get extra “free” practice at work. We will then learn skills in voice and body language to improve your confidence in being seen and heard in English in front of people.

We will study speeches of great speakers such as Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Michelle Obama, Tony Robbins and others so that you can understand and learn to identify what they are doing which makes them so great at how they are presenting.

With this structure I will help you to develop your OWN confident style so that you come across as human in a new accent and communicating at work.

If my experience sounds interesting and you like my video then please book a lesson with me and see if it works for you. It is my pleasure to help anyone who wants to make a change.

P.S.

If you speak French, Spanish, Italian or Swedish, I have learnt to speak these languages fluently and understand the differences between these accents very well. I understand how you feel being an accent student too. Other than these nationalities, I have coached the British English accent to language natives such as Mandarin Chinese and Russia and done accent softening for native English speakers people from India and England.

Here are just a few words from some of my students:

“Emma is not your typical tutor, she is more like an accommodating friend that is fanatical (in a good way:) about the language and pronunciation. I look forward to every lesson and wish I could do more of them.” Andrew L.

“Emma’s main strengths? Spotting speech patterns and recurring mistakes to give me practical, immediately applicable advice which led to a massive improvement in my day-to-day language.” Yann B.

Willing to travel: 50 miles

Experience: WORK EXPERIENCE

Hello and Bonjour, Global - English, French and Accent Coach; Founder AUG 2016- PRESENT
One to one coaching students from a range of linguistic and social backgrounds in language and accent
Setting up a branch of the organisation coaching refugees through skype with local European teachers

Regent’s University, London - Voice and Accent Head Lecturer, Acting for Stage and Screen Course JAN 2019 - PRESENT
Delivering weekly voice lessons for all three years of international actors
Subjects taught include voice, text, accent work, singing, musical theatre and Shakespeare

Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London - Voice and Accent Teacher, Various Courses MAY 2018 - APR 2019
Delivering weekly voice lessons to actors from the Beijing Central Academy of Drama
Delivering weekly voice lessons to the Preliminary Acting Course

International House, London - English and Accent Coach, Executive Centre AUG 2017- DEC 2018
Working at weekly intervals with executives on corporate projects while developing their linguistic and communication skills, including power-point presentation technique and specialised accent work

We Are Here Community Centre, Refugee Camp, Greece - Language Teacher JULY 2017
Teaching English to adult refugees, sometimes illiterate, using song, poetry, theatre, standard grammar
Additional activities included setting up a syllabus, a reading group and supporting new teachers

Advance Academy Centres, London - Lead Teacher APR 2017 - OCT 2017
Delivering extra curriculum English and mathematics classes on Saturdays
Leading the team of teachers

Bombardier Transportation, Stockholm - Strategic Purchaser SEPT 2009 - JULY 2014
Created and lead an international team to manage a business portfolio of yearly spend 27-45M€
Project and change management while on placement in Sweden, Italy, the USA and Thailand

EDUCATION

Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London - Masters in Training Actors in Voice SEPT 2017 - JUL 2019
Full time apprenticeship in voice, pedagogy, phonetics, accents and dialects, text and singing

University of Cambridge - Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults JAN- FEB 2017
Intensive month training in how to teach English to adult learners

London School of Dramatic Arts, London - Foundation Acting Diploma SEP 2015 - JUL 2016
Actor’s training including classes in movement, voice, singing, dance, acting

University of Edinburgh - Masters in Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy 2009
First Class Honours, Erasmus in Italy