Accent Reduction for Professionals

Private coaching for fluent professionals who want clearer pronunciation, stronger delivery, and more confidence in the conversations that shape their work.

  • Private and online
  • Built around your real work
  • Identity-respecting
Jay Alexander Poulton, The Accent Coach
Jay Alexander PoultonAccent and communication coach

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Reduce the effort your listener has to make.

The work prioritizes the speech patterns that affect intelligibility most, then carries them into spontaneous professional speech.

01

Clearer pronunciation

Build reliable sound placement for the words, names, and terminology you use most.

02

Stronger delivery

Use rhythm, stress, pacing, and sentence endings to make ideas easier to process.

03

More confidence

Speak without monitoring every word or losing momentum to self-correction.

A private program, organized around your voice.

Jay listens for a small number of high-impact patterns, explains the physical change clearly, and builds practice around your real communication.

“Jay helped restore my confidence and improve my communication in executive-level meetings.”
Heather · VP, Senior Leader
01

Establish a baseline

Record natural speech and identify the two or three patterns that matter most.

02

Build new coordination

Train sound, stress, rhythm, and breath with immediate feedback.

03

Use it at work

Apply the changes to meetings, presentations, introductions, and high-stakes conversations.

Three programs. One clear next step.

Choose the scope that sounds closest to your goal. Jay will help you decide which fits when you inquire.

5 sessionsA focused starting point

The Clarity Tune-Up

Targeted work on the specific sounds and words that cost you clarity. Find the handful that carry the most weight, build a personal sound list and practice until you can hear the change.

  • Pronunciation diagnostic in session one
  • Your personal sound list and recorded drills

A personal sound list and recorded drills you keep. No closing report.

A good fit whenA specific sound or word keeps getting in the way. If the problem is broader, particularly under pressure, start with the Voice Calibration.

Discuss my goal
10 sessionsMost popular

The Voice Calibration

Everything in the Clarity Tune-Up, plus breath, resonance, cadence and pause. Keep your volume to the final word, place the emphasis deliberately and hold your pace when the stakes rise.

  • Full Voice Architecture diagnostic
  • Work across all five voice levers

A one-page Closing Summary with your progress, key drills and a practice plan for the next month.

See a sample Closing Summary (PDF)

A good fit whenYou are understood, but sentences trail off, you speed up, or people talk over you in the meetings that matter.

Discuss my goal

Every program includes one-to-one Zoom sessions of 60 minutes, usually weekly, a diagnostic, a worksheet within one business day of each session, and WhatsApp coaching between sessions with a reply within one business day. Private program pricing comes in Jay’s first reply to your inquiry.

See what the work looks like.

The sample reports above and this worksheet use fictional clients and are marked as samples throughout. Your own materials are built from your recordings.

See a sample Session Worksheet (PDF)

You can send WhatsApp voice notes throughout any program. Short, specific examples are the most useful. Client voice notes stay confidential and are deleted when the program ends.

Which program fits?

Start with a defined pronunciation goal for 5 sessions; add rhythm and delivery for 10; work across voice, message, and audience for 15. You do not need to select a package on the inquiry form.

Start with the situation you want to change.

Different speaking goals, with the same three private programs. Team and event work is scoped separately.

Jay Alexander Poulton smiling in a dark jacket against a warm brown studio backdrop
Jay Alexander PoultonAccent and communication coach

Bring one real speaking goal. Leave with a clear next step.

Tell Jay Alexander Poulton where communication matters most in your work. Discuss the right approach, the investment, and whether coaching is a fit before you commit.

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