EXECUTIVE PRESENCE & LEADERSHIP COACHING
Stop Performing. Start Leading.
For over thirty years, I've helped people uncover the truth beneath the performance — on stage, on screen, and now, in the boardroom.
As a Juilliard-trained actor with 25 years on stage and screen, I spent my career learning what makes a moment — and a person — genuinely command a room. That skill set doesn't belong to actors alone. Executive presence isn't about performing confidence. It's the same principle: presence, truth, and command, applied to a different stage.
Whether you're preparing for a board presentation, navigating a promotion case, leading a hard conversation, or simply tired of feeling like your presence doesn't match your competence — the work is the same.
Together, we can work on:
Executive Presence
Vision & Strategic Storytelling
Active Listening & Reading the Room
Clarity Under Pressure
Credibility & Authentic Authority
Executive Voice & Vocal Command
Physical Presence & Body Language
Adaptive, High-Stakes Communication
The 12 Rays
Over 25 years of performance and coaching, I've distilled the qualities that separate a genuinely commanding presence from a merely polished one into twelve principles — Presence, Vision, Listening, Objective, Execution, Credibility, Adaptability, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Voice, Physical Presence, Pacing, and Relational Intelligence.
I call them the 12 Rays.
Actors use them to bring a character to life. Executives use the same twelve to bring themselves — fully, credibly — into a room. Every leader I've worked with is strong in some Rays and quietly blocked in others. This short diagnostic will show you which is which.
Take the 2-Minute Diagnostic: Which Ray Is Blocking You?WHO I WORK WITH
Executives & Senior Leaders
Presence in high-stakes meetings, board presentations, and organizational change.
Founders & Entrepreneurs
Pitching, fundraising, and leading a room that doesn't yet believe in what you're building.
Rising Leaders
Communication and presence for the promotion case, the new title, the bigger room.
Anyone Whose Presence Doesn't Yet Match Their Competence
You know your work. This is about making sure the room can feel it too.
ABOUT CLAIRE
I'm Claire Lautier, a Juilliard-trained actor, singer, and coach with over 25 years of professional experience in theatre, film, and television. I've performed with world-class companies including the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
In addition to my work as a performer, I'm a certified life coach with a practice built on authenticity, presence, and truth under pressure. Over the years, that work has increasingly attracted not just actors, but executives, founders, and professionals who wanted the same command of presence — without wanting to become performers.
This page is the executive-facing branch of a single body of work: The 12 Rays of Authentic Acting, translated for the boardroom. The rays are the same. The exercises are the same underlying principles. The only thing that's changed is the stage.
If you're actually here for acting training — auditions, scene work, monologue prep — visit my Acting Coaching page → instead. Same source, different lens.
