Speaking coaches for fear of public speaking
Compare 24 speaking coaches who focus on fear of public speaking. Besides fear of public speaking, the most common focus areas are public speaking, presentation skills, executive communication and storytelling. They most often work with professionals, executives and founders and business owners. Most charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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Stephanie Melodia
Stephanie Melodia is a public speaking and communication coach. She helps people with message clarity, script writing, delivery and nerves. She has worked with more than 60 coaching clients. She founded an award-winning marketing consultancy and was named a Top 20 Female Founder. She now works as an international keynote speaker. Soho House, WeTransfer and NOI TechPark have brought her in to speak to their teams. She also hosts a UK business podcast for entrepreneurs.
Hilary Spreiter
Hilary Spreiter is a communication and leadership development coach. She helps people with public speaking, presentation skills, executive presence and nerves. She has over 13 years of experience and has coached more than 1,000 people through group trainings and individual sessions. She has worked with Stanford University, Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Chief and Lighthouse Communications. She is also a Stanford GSB coach, and her clients include people at Netflix, Airbnb and Meta.
Anett Grant
Anett Grant is an executive communication coach who helps CEOs and senior leaders speak with more impact. She has coached executives for over 40 years and runs Executive Speaking, Inc. Before coaching, she directed theater and evaluated performance at the national level. She built the Core Satellite System, which treats content and delivery as one skill. Her clients include CEOs preparing for major board presentations and leaders guiding organizational change.
Dina Schmid
Dina Schmid is a public speaking and etiquette coach in Ohio. She helps career focused people feel confident when they present at work, from quick team talks to large crowds. She spent years as a chemical engineer at a Fortune 50 company before she became a coach. She has lived overseas and works with non-native English speakers. Her clients include executives, entrepreneurs and STEM professionals. She has coached hundreds of people over the past 5 years.
Natalie Ihrman
Natalie Ihrman coaches communication and public speaking. She also helps people find jobs on Capitol Hill and in federal agencies. She has worked as a Senate press secretary and handled press for two federal agencies. She also worked on a presidential campaign and in the White House Office of Speechwriting. She overcame a fear of public speaking in high school and went on to win at the national level. She now coaches professionals on speaking with authority.
Ashley Boroda
Ashley Boroda is a public speaking and communication trainer in London. Ashley works with executives, leaders, sales teams and business owners on presentations, pitching and negotiation. Training mixes original business thinking with performing arts techniques. Ashley created the iMA Method, a communication system with three courses. One pitching course bans PowerPoint and Keynote slides so speakers focus on real interaction with the audience. Ashley also holds an ILM Level 7 Business Growth Coach qualification.
Commanding Presence
Commanding Presence is a Canadian firm that trains professionals, managers, executives and teams in communication and presentation skills. It has worked for more than 25 years and has trained more than 48,000 people from Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. Sessions use instructor-led lessons, video recording and review, targeted practice and group coaching. The firm runs two-day in-person workshops for individuals and customized onsite training across Canada. It also offers live virtual training.
Herman Otten
Herman Otten is a public speaking coach in New York City. He teaches speaking skills to individuals, executives, and company teams. He runs small group classes in Midtown Manhattan and live on Zoom. He also offers private coaching and corporate training. His classes cover the fear behind speaking, then give each person time to practice new skills in front of the group and get feedback.
Illens Dort
Illens Dort is a communication, public speaking and facilitation coach in Provo, Utah. He helps professionals become confident and engaging speakers. His clients include speakers, educators, business trainers and workshop facilitators. He teaches a six-session coaching program built around the Four Areas of Connection and the Four Ps of Great Communication. He holds an MBA and is certified through The John Maxwell Team.
Ivy Naistadt
Ivy Naistadt is an executive speaking coach and public speaking coach in New York. She helps executives, founders, sales teams and tech leaders present with confidence. She has coached for over 25 years and has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Comcast, IBM, The New York Times and Pitney Bowes. She also works with universities including Princeton and NYU. She wrote the book Speak Without Fear and teaches a system built on that idea.
Tod Brown
Tod Brown is a communication and confidence coach who works with individuals and couples. Tod helps clients speak clearly, handle conflict, and feel steadier in hard conversations. Tod has over 20 years of experience in teaching, public speaking and coaching. Tod also has a psychology and counseling degree and a mediation and arbitration credential. Sessions end with a clear plan the client can use right away.
Michele Trent
Michele Trent is a public speaking confidence coach who helps high-achieving introverts speak with ease. Her clients are business owners and professionals who want to grow a business, get promoted, or take on leadership roles. She holds a certification as a speaking skills and mindset coach. She spent years in Toastmasters. She is an introvert herself. Her work follows three steps: Mindset, speaking skills, and practice.
College of Public Speaking
College of Public Speaking is a London training practice that teaches public speaking, presentation skills and train the trainer skills. It serves professionals from all fields and offers group courses and online one-to-one coaching. The team is based in King's Cross. Lead trainer Vince Stevenson belongs to the Trainers' Forum and SIETAR. Courses cover fear of public speaking, storytelling, executive presentations and leadership and management.
Sherry Pike
Sherry Pike is a public speaking and communication coach who works with adults 18 and older. She spent 25 years as a licensed speech language pathologist, working with children and adults who had speech, language and developmental challenges. She also has 25 years of experience teaching ballroom, Latin and swing dance. Sherry now brings speech, dance, theatre and teaching skills together to help clients build the skills and confidence to speak on any platform.
Julia Kraft
Julia Kraft is an accent coach and anxiety coach who helps professional women speak with more ease. She founded the public speaking training company Speak To Inspire in 2014. Her company has trained 1000's of entrepreneurs and professionals. It has also worked with 100's of companies, including LinkedIn, Salesforce, ZScaler and Twitter. She is a Certified WholeSpeak Coach. Her clients are experts who tend to freeze up when the spotlight turns to them.
Jason Giove
Jason Giove is an emotional intelligence and public speaking coach. He helps people manage their emotions, quiet a busy mind, and find their voice. He is a certified public speaking coach with a masters level emotional intelligence credential. He also has a background in acting, is a minister, and is a positive psychology practitioner. His clients include worriers, procrastinators, and people who overthink.
Paige Smith
Paige Smith is a communication and confidence coach who helps adults who stutter. She runs a 12-week one-on-one program called Fluency Factors. Her own path from dysfluency to speaking with confidence shaped the program. She works from the inside out. Her focus is on the mental side of stuttering more than on speech mechanics. Her goal is to help clients gain control over an unpredictable stutter.
Maurice DeCastro
Maurice DeCastro runs Mindful Presenter, a public speaking and presentation skills practice in London. He coaches professionals, leaders and teams across the UK and internationally. The work starts with delivery, such as nerves and pace. It then moves to what you say, who you say it to, and how you show up in the room. Mindful Presenter offers one-to-one coaching, a virtual coaching programme, and courses for teams.
Winstone Owino
Winstone Owino is a public speaking and communication skills coach based in Kenya. He also works as an accountability coach and a Christian life coach. He helps professionals build confidence and grow personally. His coaching covers organizing your thoughts, speaking on the spot with little or no preparation, and calming the anxiety that makes the voice shaky. He says his clients also see breakthroughs in other areas of life.
Melanie Golding
Melanie Golding is a coach and qualified counsellor who works with musicians and performing artists. She also coaches on anxiety and autism life coaching, and works with teens. She has spent more than 30 years in the music industry as a singer-songwriter and toured the United States and the UK with her albums. She wrote the book 'Facing My Own Music' about the effects of the music industry. She helps artists rebuild confidence and a sense of self.
Faith Chang
Faith Chang is a leadership coach in Paris who helps founders, C-level leaders and ambitious professionals in science, tech and healthcare. She draws on 15 years in corporate communications, performing arts and consultancy. She has guided hundreds of professionals toward promotions, funding and stronger public visibility. Her clients have spoken at TED AI, CES, HLTH, SXSW and Vivatech. She also runs strength-based leadership workshops for teams.
Greg Jones
Greg Jones is an accountability and anxiety coach in New Zealand. He helps business owners, entrepreneurs, creators and inventors get out of feeling stuck and take action. He is a Certified Creation Coach and is certified in the Magnetic Mind method. He left his professional career at age 47 to study how consciousness works. He then built a coaching company with clients around the world, along with his own programs and a masterclass of over 80 recordings.
Seena Saini
Seena Saini is an entrepreneurship coach in the United Kingdom. She helps founders start a new tech company or scale one they already run. She also brings clarity to fundraising and supports people who fear public speaking. Seena works as an SAP consultant in the FI and SD modules, so she brings a finance and sales systems view to the tech businesses she coaches.
MPower Coaching
MPower Coaching is a coaching practice for women and teens who struggle with communication anxiety. The work centers on helping clients find their voice, speak up with confidence, and act on their purpose in personal and professional life. Clients work on the inner critic, limiting beliefs, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome. The practice is listed in Elbert County and is built around support, empathy, and personalized coaching.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Melodia | Public speaking and Presentation Skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Hilary Spreiter | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anett Grant | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Dina Schmid | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Natalie Ihrman | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Ashley Boroda | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Commanding Presence | Presentation Skills and Public Speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Herman Otten | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Illens Dort | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $250 to $350 per hour |
| Ivy Naistadt | Public Speaking and Presentation Skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Tod Brown | Public speaking and Interpersonal communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michele Trent | Public speaking and Fear of public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| College of Public Speaking | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Sherry Pike | Public Speaking and Fear of public speaking | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Julia Kraft | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a speaking coach for fear of public speaking cost?
Most speaking coaches charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
What else do these speaking coaches help with?
Common focus areas include public speaking, presentation skills, executive communication and storytelling.
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Last updated September 2026.