I’m not a public speaking coach. I’m here to help you understand the value of your ideas.
I help take some of the world’s biggest, most challenging, complex and important ideas and transform them into high-impact stories for every kind of audience. y mission is to support people – like you – to value their ideas, craft them into compelling stories and share them to bring about change in your communities, companies and the world.
I’m not a public speaking coach.
I’m here to help you understand the value of your ideas.
I help take some of the world’s biggest, most challenging, complex and important ideas and transform them into high-impact stories for every kind of audience. y mission is to support people – like you – to value their ideas, craft them into compelling stories and share them to bring about change in your communities, companies and the world.
Impactful storytelling
I break down big complex ideas into small, simple ones to achieve impact. I run one of the world’s top TEDx events, have worked with hundreds of speakers who have been heard by tens of millions of people, changed the law in England and Wales and raised $1 billion to fight climate change.
1
law change
20
million TEDx views
$1
billion raised
Impactful storytelling
I break down big complex ideas into small, simple ones to achieve impact. I run one of the world’s top TEDx events, have worked with hundreds of speakers who have been heard by tens of millions of people, changed the law in England and Wales and raised $1 billion to fight climate change.
1
20
$1
law change
million TEDx views
billion raised
I reimagine the world through stories.
The magic lies in crafting great stories, making your listener curious, and getting them to care.
I’ve worked with expert speakers and people who have never done this before. It doesn’t matter who you are, or how much experience you have – if you want to get better at public speaking and storytelling all you need are the right tools and the right support. I believe that speaking is a skill that can be learned, refined and developed.
I reimagine the world through stories.
The magic lies in crafting great stories, making your listener curious, and getting them to care.
I’ve worked with expert speakers and people who have never done this before. It doesn’t matter who you are, or how much experience you have – if you want to get better at public speaking and storytelling all you need are the right tools and the right support. I believe that speaking is a skill that can be learned, refined and developed.
A snapshot of my work
CLI - (One-to-one, organisational, workshops)
Providing holistic consultancy to support Climate Leadership Initiative’s goal of scaling global philanthropy to accelerate climate solutions. Including everything from speaker coaching to speech creation, and event design to strategic storytelling workshops.
Rocky Mountain Institute - (One-to-one)
Working across all of its senior leadership to build an overall narrative and pitch deck and programme for fundraising. Working with heads of each of their work streams to develop their overall storytelling skills, and as needed to work on pitches for foundations and philanthropists.
Atomico - (Consultancy)
Designing and curating a residential course for budding entrepreneurs with an emphasis on technology and startups. Including coaching for speakers on how to tackle challenging narratives and pitch to investors, plus briefing and coaching speakers performing live at the conference.
TEDxLondon (One-to-one)
I’ve worked with hundreds of speakers over the past ten years to curate and coach them to the TEDxLondon stage at venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Sadler’s Wells and Abbey Road. TEDxLondon’s speakers’ views have generated over 20 million views on YouTube and speakers have gone on to influence law changes.
ClimateWorks Foundation - (Workshop and One-to-one)
Workshops for all of their senior leaders on storytelling and working with existing and new projects to help build their project pitches and develop compelling impact stories.
Oxford University - Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - (Workshops)
Designing an impact storytelling module for the impact lab for MBA and other students with the Skoll centre. This involves a twice yearly storytelling workshop, curriculum components, one-to-one support for students and running storytelling cafes where students can practise their skills.
What my clients have to say.
Elana Dwek – Head of Alumni Relations and Stewardship University College School
Maryam was a dream to work with throughout the workshop planning process. I really felt that she took the time to get to know the participants and they, in turn, got a lot out of her session. It was interactive, funny, interesting and candid. She created an atmosphere where the women felt comfortable asking questions, sharing personal stories and really building a rapport.
Jennifer Stokes – Managing Director Development Rocky Mountain Institute
Maryam and her team have transformed our external communications – from her coaching on scripts, presentations, and the combination of the two. Her rigorous focus on audience-centric messaging has already made an impact with our key audiences. We are so grateful for her help and expertise!
Jennifer R. Kitt – President Climate Leadership Initiative
Maryam was an absolute gift to work with, making everyone from Nobel laureates to Obama Administration Cabinet members to me refine our messages and bring out our own, authentic voice—and all this using only Zoom as a tool during the pandemic. I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Matthew Elliot – Executive Director Oceankind
“Crushes it! Maryam was a total joy to work with. She ably coached 50 conservation professionals for a virtual expert series on oceans and climate that we organized. Thoughtful, effective, insightful, and disarming in her coaching. She worked very well with the production team and the event organizers and received rave reviews across the board from the speakers (myself included). Highly recommend.”
