Communicate your best. Every Single Time

Presentation skills coaching for leaders and teams

One easy-to-deploy strategy for every Moment of Communication, from a Zoom meeting with colleagues to a key presentation to the board or a speech to an auditorium of hundreds.

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“Matt struck the perfect balance of gently coaching me through inner concerns while challenging me to go to places that made me uncomfortable enough to grow.”
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“Matt was fantastic. He brought a genuinely fresh perspective along with a background and set of experiences completely different to more traditional corporate training.”
Founder, fourth-largest UK pensions and workplace savings provider

The Four Pillars

The Intuitas approach

01

StructureYou understand your message and can present it clearly

02

ConvictionYou deliver your message with genuine confidence

03

ImpactYour message lands fully with your audience

04

PresenceYou and your message make a truly lasting impression

Intention

The core

At the centre of every Moment of Communication is your intention. The more distilled, clear and actionable it is, the more everything else melts into the background. Nerves disappear, self-awareness vanishes and you are able to communicate with true confidence, conviction and authority.

From your intention, you build a clear structure that you can deliver naturally with genuine conviction, so that it lands strongly with your audience and you leave a truly lasting impression.

Brief interactionHigh-level presentation
  • A Zoom meeting with colleagues
  • A key presentation to the board
  • A speech to an auditorium of hundreds
  • A televised audience of thousands

The most useful thing any speaker can do is identify their intention for each moment with their audience. Working with the clearest and strongest possible intention solves the great majority of communication concerns, and is the beating heart of the Intuitas approach.

“What stood out was Matt's ability to go beyond presentation techniques and understand what was happening internally in those moments that might be getting in the way of communicating naturally.”
Founder, health tech company

Communicate You

Our flagship course

A comprehensive programme of four 90/120-minute sessions that creates a complete, bespoke approach to presenting and speaking, built around your specific needs and strengths. You will leave with an easy-to-deploy strategy for every Moment of Communication, in person or on screen, a Tactical Grab Bag of tools you can rely on under pressure, and simple techniques that yield the strongest buy-in from every audience.

Along the way you'll develop the ability to pivot in real time as objectives change and stakeholder needs shift, and discover the sense of accomplishment and enthusiasm that builds genuine self-belief.

The course is iterative and bespoke, moulding and reworking around your requirements. Each session is also available on a stand-alone basis as an individual module and more time can be given to practice through ongoing coaching.

For
Senior professionals and teams who present, brief, pitch or lead meetings, and need a simple-to-deploy, reliable method that works from the briefest exchange to the biggest presentation of their career.

Communicate your best. Every Single Time

  • Engage in every Moment of Communication with full confidence.
  • Deliver your best, every time, in every scenario.
  • Win buy-in from audiences of all sizes.

A four-step process

Each step builds one of the Four Pillars.

01 · Structure

Clarify the Structure

Planning and writing your content for clarity and impact.

02 · Conviction

Discover your 'Why'

Distil your driving intention and what you want your audience to take away.

03 · Impact

Practice, Practice, Practice

Roleplay, workshop, live feedback and video appraisal on your delivery.

04 · Presence

Nail it

Presence and confidence on the day, in any room or on screen.

The course

1. Structural Purpose

Structure

You understand your message and can present it clearly

Give your audience the gold up front, and a structure both they and you can follow from the first sentence to the last.

90/120-minute session

2. Who, Why, How

Conviction

You deliver your message with genuine confidence

Three basic questions that do the work every time, even when you haven't prepared.

90/120-minute session

3. The Non-Verbal Steam Train

Impact

Your message lands fully with your audience

Most of what we communicate travels without words. Take control of it.

90/120-minute session

4. True Confidence

Presence

You and your message make a truly lasting impression

Confidence is an emergent quality arising from clear understanding, strong intention and forward-leaning engagement.

90/120-minute session

The outcome

Mastering Structure, Conviction and Impact in real-world scenarios is the mastery of nerves, and the portrayal of Presence and confidence.

Included in the course

A dynamic mix of skills

Communication, presentation, writing and structural techniques. Practice, role play and live feedback on delivery, combined with theoretical understanding and confidence support.

In person and on camera

Practical work is recorded and reviewed together. What a moment feels like to you and how it comes across are often very different, and the camera shows you both.

Guided self-study

Practical homework between sessions, linked where possible to upcoming presentations, so the work fully embeds in your real-world experience.

Yours to keep

Bespoke materials and notes, and your own Tactical Grab Bag: the most resonant ideas from the course, distilled onto a single page you can refer to at a glance.

Ongoing support

Ongoing coaching as you need to fully embed your working practice and prepare confidently for each new presentation.

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Focus sessions

60/90-minute sessions

We can create bespoke focus sessions in any area you require. Each builds on the foundations of the full course and is tailored to a specific scenario. Examples include:

Sharing with the Camera

On screen

Presenting on screen and online

How to reach through the camera to your audience.

60/90-minute session

Being in the Room

Executive presence

Executive presence and gravitas for leaders

How to be fully present and confident in every room you walk into.

60/90-minute session

Winning Buy-In

The pitch

Pitching for investment and new business

How to achieve buy-in authentically and truthfully.

60/90-minute session

Technicolour

The big stage

Keynote and conference speaking

If your communication sits on a grey scale, the big stage needs it in full technicolour.

60/90-minute session
“Matt's approach was perceptive, highly tailored and practical. An insightful and skilled coach, our work gave me a valuable perspective on presence and communication that went well beyond becoming a more polished speaker.”
Coach and TEDx speaker

The best format for you

Delivery

The flagship course and its modules can be delivered one-to-one, in small groups, as a masterclass or as a presentation, depending on what fits the organisation, the team or the individual.

  1. One-to-one coaching

    AudienceIndividual

    Practical workThroughout

    Fully iterative and bespoke. The course moulds and reworks itself around your needs as they emerge.

  2. Group coaching

    AudienceUp to eight

    Practical workFor everyone

    Direct coaching for a small team, with everyone on their feet, practising and receiving feedback.

  3. Masterclass

    AudienceSelected participants, with colleagues watching

    Practical workFor the participants being coached

    Selected participants are coached in front of their colleagues, so the whole room learns from the work.

  4. Presentation

    AudienceLarge groups, such as 100 people

    Practical workLimited

    The ideas and tools expressed to a full room, with limited scope for practical work.

The amount of practical work depends on the size of the group and the length of each session. We work with each organisation, team and individual to find the approach that gets the best result.

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Matt Barber

Lead Coach

SAG and BAFTAEnsemble cast award winner, Downton Abbey
19 yearsProfessional actor, West End to Glyndebourne
18 yearsManaging director of a London boutique tutoring company
Matt BarberMatt Barber speaking with a microphone

Matt's career spans acting, education and business, and he has presented in every setting his clients face: investment committees, TV and radio interviews, and pitches to live audiences of thousands. That range lets him work with each client to develop an authentic style, rooted in honest, solid confidence.

His coaching brings the skills of each of those fields together. Working from first principles, he builds a bespoke approach for every client, so each develops a personal toolkit for their own needs, and the self-belief and confidence that grow from it.

Coaching expertise

  • Speechwriting structure and content
  • Vocal and physical warm-up and mindset
  • Developing stage presence
  • Eye contact, body language and movement
  • Presenting to live, in-person audiences
  • Speech patterns, vocal tone and delivery
  • Zoom, live webinars, podiums and panels
  • Reading the room and knowing your audience
  • TV and radio interviews
  • Confidence and empowerment
  • Investor and board pitches
  • Gravitas and a lasting impression

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Next step

An initial 30-minute conversation to identify your objectives and find the right course, modules and format for you or your team.

  1. Tell us a little about what is coming up
  2. We reply with times that suit you
  3. You leave the call with a recommended approach

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Communicate You

Our flagship course

The four-session presentation skills course

Engage in every Moment of Communication with full confidence. Deliver your best, every time, in every scenario.

The course

  1. Session 1 of 4 · Structure

    Structural Purpose

    You understand your message and can present it clearly

    Successful communication starts with knowing exactly what we want to say and how we want to say it.

  2. Session 2 of 4 · Conviction

    Who, Why, How

    You deliver your message with genuine confidence

    Identifying a committed intention and focussing on it allows nerves and self-awareness to dissipate naturally.

  3. Session 3 of 4 · Impact

    The Non-Verbal Steam Train

    Your message lands fully with your audience

    Most of what we communicate travels without words. In this session, we work both on ignoring our critical inner voice and deploying targeted public speaking techniques. Then we practise, review, tweak and repeat.

  4. Session 4 of 4 · Presence

    True Confidence

    You and your message make a truly lasting impression

    Managing nerves and embodying presence are emergent qualities, arising from embedding the work of the first three sessions and ongoing practice.

The outcome

Mastering Structure, Conviction and Impact in real-world scenarios is the mastery of nerves, and the portrayal of Presence and confidence.

Included in the course

A dynamic mix of skills

Communication, presentation, writing and structural techniques. Practice, role play and live feedback on delivery, combined with theoretical understanding and confidence support.

In person and on camera

Practical work is recorded and reviewed together. What a moment feels like to you and how it comes across are often very different, and the camera shows you both.

Guided self-study

Practical homework between sessions, linked where possible to upcoming presentations, so the work fully embeds in your real-world experience.

Yours to keep

Bespoke materials and notes, and your own Tactical Grab Bag: the most resonant ideas from the course, distilled onto a single page you can refer to at a glance.

Ongoing support

Ongoing coaching as you need to fully embed your working practice and prepare confidently for each new presentation.

Book a discovery call about this course

Structural Purpose

Module · Structure

Structure, story and the golden nugget

Without a clear structure, it's impossible for your audience to follow what's going on in your head.

Structure needs purpose. It must have a direction, and every part of it must move your audience towards the understanding you want them to leave with. This module applies that discipline to business communication: board papers, proposals, updates, data-heavy findings and the stories that bring them to life.

In this module

  1. The golden nugget and the shape of the message

    Give your audience the gold up front, and a structure both they and you can follow.

  2. A three-stage structure and two levels of communication

    Ensure you're telling your audience how to navigate your speech as well as the information itself.

  3. Story and conviction

    A story lands and stays where a list of facts slides away.

The outcome

Mastering Structure ensures your audience clearly receives and understands the content, purpose and aim of every Moment of Communication.

Yours to keep

A one-page structure template, your one-sentence message and story bank, and filmed practice.

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Who, Why, How

Module · Conviction

Who you're talking to, why you're talking to them and how to land it

Three basic questions that do the work every time, even when you haven't prepared.

This module trains these basic questions until they become second nature. So you find your intention, and the simplest way to express it, whether you've had weeks to prepare or just seconds.

It draws on the different hats you wear at work, each with its own requirements, and on practical drills that make the questions instinctive, to bring you the results you need in every scenario.

In this module

  1. Finding your intention

    Are you being truly honest with yourself about what your aim is? And how can you reframe that if you need to?

  2. Hunting your intention down

    It's got to matter for you to want to go after it.

  3. The three types of people in every audience

    And how to give them all what they need.

The outcome

Mastering Conviction ensures your audience fully buys in to every Moment of Communication.

Yours to keep

A pocket card of the three questions, your role and intention map, and a personal drill plan.

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The Non-Verbal Steam Train

Module · Impact

Body, delivery and impact

Most of our communication travels without words, and it thunders into people's consciousness every time we engage with each other.

Stance, eye line, facial expression, gesture and movement reach your audience well before the words you choose even leave your mouth. But they are symptoms of self-belief, which is driven by strong intention. We reverse-engineer symptomatic physical behaviours to discover why they occur when they do, what it means about your conviction in your message, and how to improve that.

The emotional component of body language is Impact: the impression you create, and the understanding, confidence and enthusiasm you leave behind in the room.

In this module

  1. Delivery

    How you say it is judged far more strongly than what you say.

  2. The body and impact

    Your audience reads you from the moment you enter the room.

  3. Undesirable habits

    Physical habits are indicative of your own buy-in to your message and intention. Anything that remains once they are clarified and entrenched is addressed specifically.

The outcome

Mastering Impact galvanises your audience to act positively on your essential message.

Yours to keep

Before-and-after recordings, a ten-minute daily warm-up and marked-up practice notes.

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True Confidence

Module · Presence

Nerves, self-belief and speaking under pressure

True confidence allows you to share ideas with clarity and competence, be in the moment and leave a lasting impact.

Confidence is an emergent quality. It grows out of pursuing your intention with absolute conviction and leaning in to your audience's engagement. It deepens every time you put it into practice.

This module is the culmination of the course. It ties everything together, giving specific, bespoke tools for areas of concern and building on areas of confidence so people can communicate effectively and comfortably under pressure.

In this module

  1. Practice, Assess, Amend, Repeat

    Working with the approach as a whole and diving into specific areas as needed, we refine your individual approach holistically and solidify your primary toolkit.

The outcome

Mastering Structure, Conviction and Impact in real-world scenarios is the mastery of nerves, and the portrayal of Presence and confidence.

Yours to keep

A personal pre-talk routine card, filmed practice and your confidence plan.

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Sharing with the Camera

Focus session · On screen

Presenting on screen and online

Treat the lens as a person. Share with it, and with everyone on the other side of it.

Online, the Non-Verbal Steam Train runs through a small frame and a small speaker, and much of what you would normally read in the room disappears. This session covers Zoom, Teams, webinars, recorded video and remote interviews: working to a lens, scaling your energy for the screen, and keeping a dialogue going with an audience you can't look directly at.

The outcome

Mastering the screen ensures every Moment of Communication lands with the same clarity online as it does in the room.

Yours to keep

A set-up checklist, your recorded clips and a personal set-up plan.

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Being in the Room

Focus session · Executive presence

Executive presence and gravitas for leaders

Executive presence is being in the room in the right way.

Presence is as much about internal belief and intention as anything else. The ability to focus your attention, engage tactically with the present moment, invest in it fully and achieve your intention creates an aura of executive presence. The people who have it show it all the time: in every conversation, in their demeanour and in the way they present themselves.

This session builds a clearly defined, individual understanding of what presence means for you, then puts it to work on your real material, with direct coaching and feedback.

The outcome

Mastering executive presence means investing fully in every moment, and your audience feels it.

Yours to keep

Filmed, coached practice on your real material and a personal action plan.

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Winning Buy-In

Focus session · The pitch

Pitching for investment and new business

The ultimate question in any pitch: would you invest in this yourself? The answer needs to be a very secure and strong yes.

Pitching ties together all the requirements of the course and raises the heat intensely. Driving a room towards a conversion moment is likely the highest-pressure presentation you will make. It requires a perfect deck, impeccable clarity of messaging and absolute conviction in yourself.

This session helps you identify the three types of people in every audience and refine your intention towards each of them. What does buy-in look like, how can you work towards it, and how do you know when you've achieved it?

The outcome

Mastering the pitch moves every party in the room one level closer to a secure and strong yes.

Yours to keep

A filmed mock-panel pitch, a question bank and deck review notes.

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Technicolour

Focus session · The big stage

Keynote and conference speaking

If your communication sits on a grey scale, the big stage needs it in full technicolour.

A keynote is the grandest Moment of Communication most people will face: an auditorium of hundreds or even thousands, sometimes a televised audience of many more. This session scales up your delivery so it holds the largest rooms.

Along the way we find out how far you can push your energy and intention, and where too far really is.

The outcome

Mastering the big stage carries your idea to every seat in the room, and keeps it with your audience after they leave.

Yours to keep

Talk development notes, your one-sentence message and a filmed full run of your talk.

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Matt Barber

Full biography

Director, Intuitas Consulting

Following a degree in Philosophy and Classical Studies from Durham University, Matt trained professionally as an actor at the world-renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, before working in Los Angeles with David Mamet's Atlantic Theater Company and the Margie Haber Studio. His two decades as an actor most notably include playing Atticus Aldridge in Downton Abbey, for which he participated in winning the SAG and BAFTA ensemble awards and starring in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Pygmalion in the West End.

Alongside acting, Matt founded and runs New Empire Pictures, a production company developing a slate of premium film and television projects, for which he has raised significant capital and attached globally recognised star talent to a number of projects. Matt is also a commissioned screenwriter with several films in development, and a children's author.

Before New Empire Pictures, Matt co-founded Equilibrium, The Learning Company, one of London's premier boutique tutoring companies. There he has worked with hundreds of clients, from high-net-worth families to industry leaders and royalty, developing EQ skills and supporting their children's education, including coaching many through every stage of school, university and professional interviews.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you book

Who is the coaching for?

Senior professionals and teams: anyone who presents, briefs, pitches or leads meetings, from a short update to the biggest presentation of their career.

Where does coaching take place?

In person or online, to suit your needs. Our lead coach is based in London; however, we are able to travel to work with clients around the UK and internationally by arrangement.

Can I be coached online?

Yes. Sessions run on Zoom, and Sharing with the Camera focuses on presenting on screen.

How much does it cost?

Fees depend on the format and the number of sessions. After your free discovery call, we recommend an approach and confirm the fee.

How long is the course?

Communicate You is designed as four 90/120-minute sessions, with guided self-study between them. Each session is also available on its own as a module, and focus sessions run for 60/90 minutes.

Is it one-to-one or for groups?

Both. Coaching works one-to-one or for groups of up to eight, and the course can also be delivered as a masterclass or as a presentation to a larger audience.

What happens on the discovery call?

It's a free, 30-minute conversation to identify your objectives and find the right course, modules and format for you or your team.

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