Voices — Case dossier, Q1 2024
Three measured engagements. Forty-one percent fewer drop-offs. One quiet waitlist.
What follows is not a testimonial wall. It is a working dossier — three anonymised profiles drawn from 380+ engagements across 22 countries, each opened by a measured outcome rather than a quote of praise. Names, sectors and figures have been aggregated to preserve the privacy of the speakers involved; the methodology, the metrics and the timelines are real.
Forty-seven prospective clients are currently on the waitlist. The practice accepts fourteen per quarter.
Profile — Series A founder, European fintech
Inbound doubled within sixty days. We did not touch the deck.
The founder who doubled inbound in 60 days.
A founder preparing a Series A close had the slide content — traction, burn, market shape — but a delivery that flatlined the room. Eva rebuilt the opening three minutes using the 3-Second Breath framework and a deliberate pause architecture around each financial claim. Rehearsals were recorded and analysed against the firm's internal benchmark for executive presence.
The engagement ran for seven weeks across four diagnostic sessions and a final dress rehearsal on the actual stage. The founder has since been rebooked for a board-level offsite and an internal all-hands.
Profile — COO, multinational industrial firm
They stopped leaving the room in the first ninety seconds.
The executive whose room stayed seated.
A COO facing a flagship all-hands had the credibility but not the room: eye-line drifted, hands broke frame, and the opening ninety seconds — when retention decisions are made — leaked attendees to the coffee line. The intervention focused entirely on the first three minutes and the closing call-to-action. Nothing in the middle was touched.
The post-event survey, conducted independently by the firm's internal communications team, also showed a measurable lift in the perceived clarity of the strategic priorities communicated — the rare outcome where presence work translates directly into comprehension work.
The practice, by the numbers
Profile — Author and academic, thought-leadership book launch
The book tour quietly became a speaking circuit.
The author whose book tour converted into a speaking circuit.
An academic launching a trade-press book had twelve confirmed venue dates and no platform beyond the publisher's list. The work was on the delivery: pacing, the deliberate silence after each chapter's argument, and a redesigned opening that positioned the speaker as a practitioner, not a professor. Eleven of the twelve venues rebooked the author for follow-on engagements; four led to corporate keynotes within the quarter.
Engagement duration was the longest of the three profiles — nineteen weeks, woven around the author's existing research commitments. Eva continues to support the speaker's annual flagship lecture at the original home institution.
I walked offstage and three people I did not know asked when I was speaking next. That has never happened before.
Anonymised client — post-engagement note, Q4 2023
Claim Your Diagnostic