Clear

Concise

Communication

Confident

About

Sophie Clark is a communication expert.

She transforms her clients, uncovers their blind spots, shares easily transferable techniques, all of which lead to dramatic change. She believes tailored communication training and coaching can help any individual to reach their full potential.

Over the last 15 years, she has worked with over 200 corporate clients across 23 countries, polishing their presentations, team meetings, stakeholder interactions, pitches, speeches, leadership conversations and branding skills.

Based in London, she works with groups and individuals to communicate with greater confidence, clarity and impact. She lived in Asia for 15 years and started her career in the investment banking sector.

Services

When working with Sophie, you can elevate your impact in these areas.

    • Speak with confidence, credibility and impact

    • Present to large and senior audiences

    • Engage and interact with your audience

    • Handle Q&A with ease

    • Present virtually, hybrid and face to face

    • Share compelling and memorable stories

    • Be concise, structured, engaging and clear

    • Build persuasive messages that lead to action

    • Retain audience attention

    • Be effective with your writing and visuals

    • Draft engaging speeches and summaries

    • Stand out on panels for the right reasons

    • Facilitate interesting panels and meetings

    • Construct memorable conference key notes

    • Chair inclusive and decisive meetings

    • Motivate others

    • Deliver high quality feedback

    • Diffuse and managing conflict

    • Listening and coaching skills

    • Clarity on ‘why you’ versus your competition

    • Create balanced, quality client dialogue

    • Open the pitch to impress and close to win

    • Tailor and prepare to maximise conversion

    • Simplify complex data and details

    • Unclutter visuals for transparent messages

    • Deliver quality Q&A

    • Supportive not stifling drafts, notes and slides

    • Navigate internally, externally and globally

    • Build meaningful, long term relationships

    • Master the art of small talk

    • Enter and exit conversations with ease

    • Increase trust, rapport and likeability

    • Drive your career conversations

    • Progress to the next interview stage

    • Prepare for promotion panel presentations

    • Improve performance and pay reviews

    • Polish your strategic business plan

    • Build inner and outer confidence

    • Inspire and promote female talent

    • Create strategic, supported career moves

    • Find champions, allies and sponsors

    • Articulate both you and your team’s value

    • Create high impact, high value interactions

    • Speak up, be heard, be seen

    • Act as a partner, not gatekeeper

    • Appear poised, measured and valued

    • Speak clearly to your board

    • Share strategic goals and messages

    • Originate new business and customers

    • Enhance employee engagement

    • Inspire large and diverse audiences

    • Write best practice notes

    • Deal with tech and last minute curveballs

    • Navigate off the cuff questions

  • "As they say in the Carlsberg® adverts, probably the best development intervention I’ve had in a very long time. Everyone on the team commented on how beneficial Sophie’s insights have been and I couldn’t agree more."

    TSB, CEO

  • “We’ve worked with Sophie for 8 years and she is our go-to partner for communication training. The feedback from our participants is consistently glowing and most importantly she really makes a real impact.”

    BT, Snr Learning & Leadership Manager

  • "Sophie helped me to change old habits and deliver my key messages in a more structured and impactful way for the many types of audience I interact with. She’s direct, challenging, patient and gets results."

    £50Bn annual turnover firm, CEO

  • "Working with Sophie immediately improved our communication styles. She works both holistically and practically in developing presentation skills and we still draw on her guidance today. We highly recommend Sophie to improve any form of communication – plus she is straightforward, lovely and a real pleasure to work with and learn from."

    Atlantic Records, Co-Presidents, Briony Turner and Ed Howard

  • "To climb up an organisation you need to consistently challenge and improve your communication skills. Sophie can enable you to be more confident, authentic and impactful and give you tools to navigate work interactions."

    Lord Davies, CBE (author of the Davies report and LTA Chairman)

  • "Sophie honed my style and built my confidence to present at many conferences with up to 3,000 participants. I have been able to apply this to my presentations in Spanish as well."

    HSBC, Bank CEO

  • "Over a very short time frame she made a huge difference with my portfolio managers to improve their client discussions. Sophie’s approach was direct, challenging and impactful. I highly recommend her."

    Investment Management Firm, Managing Partner, Hong Kong

  • "Sophie helped me understand the improvements I could make to raise my game and have my ideas heard. Her advice was concrete and easy to implement with real takeaways rather than theoretical concepts."

    Leading U.S. Law Firm, Senior Partner

  • "I can’t recommend Sophie highly enough. She consistently delivers high value training for our partners and senior associates to upskill their client conversations and pitches."

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, R&D Manager

  • “Sophie has worked with myself and other leaders for the last 10 years. She's made a significant difference in how we communicate. Her direct and “no nonsense” approach was a welcome change for us all. She provided easy to use tools and techniques which resulted in positive and sustained change. I highly recommend her.”

    EY, Talent Partner, Anne-Marie Balfe

  • “Sophie’s courses receive resoundingly positive feedback and importantly, the attendees gain skills that they can immediately apply on the job and see the benefit not only to themselves but also the business.”

    Amgen, Global Medical Learning & Performance Lead

  • “Sophie’s speech writing support is sharp, to the point, and has the ability to maximise audience attention.”

    RICS, President

  • “Sophie was instrumental to my promotion to MD. This would not have happened without her prepping, challenging, and taking me out of my comfort zone.”

    MUFG Bank, Managing Director

  • “A massive eye opener for me. After our pitch session, I secured the business right away and have never felt so confident and comfortable during a client meeting. She may have just kick started my career.”

    Global Asset Management Firm, new Relationship Manager

Sophie Denison Clark Speaking Consultant

Clients

Banking

Bank of Ireland
Barclays
CIBC
Citigroup
Credit Suisse
HSBC
J.P. Morgan
Macquarie Group
Morgan Stanley
MUFG
Nomura
Royal Bank of Scotland
Santander
TSB
UBS

Finance

Abrdn
Accel
Blackstone
Bloomberg
BNY Mellon
BP Pensions
Brooks Macdonald
EBRD
Fidelity Investments
IG
Illuminate Financial
Kingswood Group
M&G Investments
Neuberger Berman
State Street
TT International
USS
Wellington Management

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Capita
EY
KPMG

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

BT Group
EE

Legal

Clifford Chance
Covington & Burling
DLA Piper
Freshfields
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
LexisNexis
Linklaters
Morgan Lewis
Paul Hastings
Proskauer
Simmons & Simmons
Skadden
White & Case

FMCG

Coca Cola
Diageo
Double Dutch
Nestlé
Unilever

Insurance

AIA
AON
AXA
Cigna
Zurich

HOTELS

Marriott Hotels
Six Senses Resorts & Spas

ENergy

Argus Media
BP
Mitsubishi Power
Sonnedix

RETAIL

Berry Bros. & Rudd
DFS Group
Li & Fung
LVMH
Sephora

Industrial

Jebsen Industrial
John Crane
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Media & entertainment

Comedy Central
ViacomCBS
Warner Music Group

Other

Amgen Inc.
Bausch + Lomb
BBDO
CSM Sport & Entertainment
Deliveroo
Ferguson
GE
Greene King
Lexia Learning
ManpowerGroup
Oliver Wyman
Quintessentially
RICS
Royal Academy of Arts
30% Club

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