Executive Coaching · Executive Presence and Influence
What makes people listen when you speak?
Respect, clarity, and calm you feel, and so does the room.
Respect, clarity, and calm you feel, and so does the room.
Working harder, managing stakeholders, building visibility may still not be enough to be seen and heard as a leader.
Under pressure, it’s harder to choose your response. Your natural stress response will tighten your posture, narrow your thinking, resulting in overexplaining, overthinking, and holding back or shrinking (Porges, 2011). You know you can show up more confidently.
Catherine Peloquin helps leaders address the stress reactions that get in the way of communicating and performing under pressure. Today’s speed and visibility require effectiveness in the moment. This program trains for stability in peak events, so you find the right words, influence with authority, and feel confident even when stakeholder tensions, bigger rooms, and uncomfortable questions add stress.
Rooted in 20+ years executive partnering from communications and leadership development roles guiding transformation and change. Bringing body-based tools to business for 10+ years as one of Switzerland’s first certified somatic coaches.
Professional brand, values in action, and leadership commitment. Future-ready leadership for the AI era.
Leadership Circle Profile · North Star
State, mood, energy, and emotion. Stress triggers, confidence blockers, and personal stability resources.
Personalized stress profile · Regulation tools
Body language, voice, pace, and gesture. The physical signals that build credibility before you speak.
Presence checklist · Baseline video and feedback
Stakeholders, power dynamics, group emotions, and unspoken tensions. Systems thinking and attunement.
Reading the Room framework
Building trust and connection are more critical when the stakes are high. Brevity, value, pacing, pauses, listening, and resonating with audience needs support tense conversations.
Real-time challenge practice
Knowing what resonates with your audience: the right details and emotions, what’s in it for them. Then the red thread structure and a clear point of view.
Your natural storytelling approach
Practical tools for shifting the mood, de-escalating conflict, and shaping environments through how you show up.
Psychological safety physiology · Conflict framework
Leading transformation that engages and inspires, and creates ownership and accountability. Overcome resistance and cut through the clutter.
Signature engagement playbook
Live experience under speed, pressure, and uncertainty, with progress review and behavioral insights.
Simulation video and feedback
Personalized for your leadership context, specific presence challenges, and goals. In person in Zug, Zurich, or Basel, or globally online.
From CHF 3,200 · 3 to 6 months
Single sessions from CHF 300.
Book a free 15-minute callExperiential, peer learning, live simulation, and individual coaching integrated. 2× online + 1 day + private coaching. Switzerland.
From CHF 750 per seat
Ask about the Fall 2026 cohortGroup workshops and applied coaching for leadership teams, building presence, influence, and calm communication under pressure. Scoped to your organization.
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“Working with Catherine helped me become more grounded and authentic in professional situations. I feel more confident in networking, more aware of how I communicate under pressure, and more comfortable showing up as myself. Our work together strengthened my executive presence and gave me greater self-awareness, which has had a positive impact on how I connect with others professionally.”Marketing DirectorFMCG
“I was highly reactive and adapting myself to others. With Catherine I grew as a leader. I speak up with my perspective, feel more authentically myself, and have more confidence to be spontaneous in communications.”IT DirectorBanking, Basel
“Being present in my body was new to me. Embodying the feeling of confidence really helped me speak. It wasn’t an artificial feeling. I didn’t run away; I didn’t collapse.”Isabel Zai-StylesWell-being Consultant, Zurich
“Before we met, I was very anxious, overpreparing and disconnected. People noticed my communications and executive presence shifted. I really started to feel more comfortable with myself.”Compliance DirectorFinancial Services, Geneva
Executive coaching covers strategy, leadership development, and career direction. Executive presence coaching covers how a leader is seen, heard, and trusted in the room. Catherine’s background in corporate communications and leadership development means this program brings both: you learn how to embody your leadership values, show up differently, but also develop as an enterprise leader. That combination is uncommon among executive presence coaches.
Freezing is a stress response, not a confidence problem. Your nervous system reads the room as high-stakes and protects you, narrowing thinking and language before you can choose (Porges, 2011). The work builds the capacity to stay clear and responsive under pressure, so the room sees the leader you already are.
Under stress, the body reacts to threat by narrowing attention and cognition (LeDoux, 1996). This is physiology, not a preparation or skills problem. The stress response fires before thought. Training that response is what makes preparation hold when the pressure is real.
Most clients apply outcomes from the first session. Private 1-1s run 6 to 12 weeks. Deeper transformation with daily integration support runs over 6 months. Presence that sustains under pressure is trained, not switched on; it requires practice between sessions.
The difference: executive presence is for a sustained pattern across every room, over time and often for senior leaders. Communicate Under Pressure is for everyday communications moments, relationship tensions and recurring triggers and challenges.
Learn moreChronic stress patterns impact posture, embodied adaptability and emotional range. Nervous system foundations accelerate executive presence work by looking at what gets in the way of authentic expression, genuine connections and communications control.
Learn moreLooking for your next move or promotion. Feel stalled or stuck. Offering the communications, strategy and leadership development support for your transition and first 90 days.
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