Who This Is For
We work with senior professionals who already speak their second language — but haven't yet found their full identity in it.
Persona 01
The Challenge
You've been posted abroad — typically for 6 to 18 months. It's a career-defining move. You speak the local language at a professional level, maybe even fluently. But from day one, something feels off.
In meetings, you're understood but not felt. Your team respects your title but doesn't yet respect you — the version of you that earned this posting. You find yourself defaulting to safe, transactional communication because the alternative — trying to be warm, witty, and commanding in a language that still feels like borrowed clothes — feels too risky.
What We Do
We accelerate the process of becoming yourself in the new language and culture. Your virtual mirror shows you exactly how you're coming across to your new team. Your coach helps you close the gap — not by teaching you the language, but by teaching you how to carry your leadership presence into it.
Typical Engagement
14-week Executive Intensive, often funded through the international assignment package. Begins 4–6 weeks before departure or immediately upon arrival.
Persona 02
The Challenge
You don't live abroad — you visit. Regular client meetings, partner negotiations, and industry events in markets where English isn't the first language, or where you're operating in the client's language as a show of respect and relationship commitment.
You can handle the formal meeting. Agendas, slide decks, structured discussion — these have their own professional register that you've mastered. But the moments that actually build trust — the pre-meeting coffee, the dinner conversation, the casual corridor exchange — require a version of you that you can't access in your second language.
What We Do
We focus on the high-value informal moments. Your role-play scenarios replicate the unstructured social environments where relationships are won and lost. Your coach works with you on cultural humour, small talk that builds rapport, and the subtle signals of seniority and warmth that operate differently in every language.
Typical Engagement
Event Preparation Sprint (4 weeks) for specific trips, or ongoing monthly coaching with role-play access for frequent travellers.
Persona 03
The Challenge
You lead across geographies. In some languages, you're the leader everyone talks about — charismatic, decisive, inspiring. In others, you're competent but forgettable. Your leadership brand is inconsistent, and in a global organisation, that inconsistency is visible.
What We Do
We work across your language portfolio. Your virtual mirror captures you in each language, and your coach helps you build a consistent leadership presence that translates across all of them — while respecting the cultural specifics of each market.
Typical Engagement
Enterprise programme with extended coaching engagement, typically 6–12 months.
Persona 04
The Challenge
You're being groomed for an international role, or you've been told that your second-language communication is the one thing holding you back from the next step. You're technically proficient in the language — you passed the tests, you can write the emails — but you know that the promotion depends on executive presence, not grammar scores.
What We Do
We treat this as a career acceleration engagement. Your coach works with you and your sponsor/mentor to define what "ready" looks like, and we build a development programme around closing that specific gap.
Typical Engagement
14-week Executive Intensive, often funded through executive development budgets.