eloquential • realise your eloquence potential through coaching or workshops

I’m Sarah Cruise and I am obsessed with human communication and driven by a desire to use my knowledge, skills and experience to help others communicate most effectively.

speaking

presenting

interviewing

engaging

pitching

teaching

communicating

persuading

influencing

motivating

I want to realise your eloquence potential.

I believe that we all have the potential to communicate eloquently and it’s all about fostering the perfect conditions to enable us to do so.

These conditions will be different for all of us and my aim is to find out what works for you, cultivate your development, and explore ways to overcome external and internal barriers to success.

I work with individuals, groups and organisations and tailor all of my work according to your needs, ensuring that you receive the most effective support within time frames and budget constraints.

I have extensive experience coaching individuals, running workshops, facilitating groups, training trainers, advising managers and supporting events. All of which has resulted in positive impact, desired outcomes, and glowing testimonials.

How I can help ....

Teams

workshops to gain knowledge, skills and a common language to support and challenge each other’s development; facilitating sessions to enable teams to identify and understand their communication dynamics, and explore ways to communicate together most effectively; rehearsing for specific events

Organisations

consulting on how to foster a more communicative organisation by sharing best practice; exploring internal barriers, and identifying recommendations for development

Groups

workshops to further knowledge and understanding; training programmes comprising of group workshops, peer review sessions, and individual coaching to full support skills development; group rehearsals for specific events

Individuals

coaching to share knowledge, develop skills and build confidence; rehearsing to test out ideas, practice skills and perfect specific communications; reviewing scripts and videos to provide insightful feedback to further development

trainers

coaching and workshops to share knowledge, tools and techniques to apply in your own workshops and coaching

I can help with public speaking presenting interviewing science communicating public engagement teaching pitching selling negotiating influencing mentoring motivating blogging vlogging podcasting

About the knowledge, skills & experience I offer ...

I have a deep understanding of human communication gained from well founded and respected research across many disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, and sociology
I support this with methods and techniques from expert practitioners within the performing arts, to put that understanding into practice
I also apply skills and experience from the coaching and counselling communities to provide the right conditions for self-development

I love performing and this shows in my facilitation style which is authentically energetic and uses performance to illustrate, demonstrate and inspire others.

I’m creative, visual and imaginative, which comes out in my workshop design, illustrative exercises, and helps my clients to make connections, solve problems and visualise complexities.

I‘m curious, interested in anything and everything, and much of my most favourite work is where I also get to learn from my clients.

I don’t feel much older than I did as a teenager. I still make mistakes and a fool out of myself, but I have embraced these with age and am now happy to acknowledge and use them to my own advantage, even if that’s just to have fun and make others laugh.

I have managed to combine my curiosity and love for public engagement in academic research, with my favourite tipple of gin, by co-hosting the the Gin & Topic podcast with my step-daughter Áine.

My two rescue dogs often make an appearance either visually or vocally, but then I often mull over work when out walking them, so I guess it’s only fair.

We meet to ...

Or if you want to get to work straight away then you can book a pre-pay session right now to ...

All of these and most of my work is delivered via zoom but I’m happy to meet in MSTeams if that is more appropriate for your organisation.

I do also work in-person, should that be most appropriate e.g. rehearsing for live in-person events, or working collectively with in-person teams. However, only when the benefits of working in-person outweighs the cost to the environment. When working in person, I donate to a carbon zero charity to offset my actions, and encourage my clients to do so also.

If you would rather contact me via email then it’s sarah@eloquential.co.uk and you can find me on on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Others have worked with me over the years, including most recently ...

Eloquential courses will engage you from start to finish and teach you to engage others. Sarah brings a unique combination of deep insight into the psychology of workplace communication and the art of persuasive speaking. This rounded and highly effective combination is unforgettable and will produce lasting change in your working environment and in individuals.

Sarah’s session on effective communication was lively and engaging. She certainly practices what she preaches!

I have worked with Sarah for a number of years, bringing her in to support employees with presentation preparation for live global events. Everyone she has worked with has been resoundingly positive about how her support has helped them, and I have seen the difference not only in their presentations, but in their confidence.

I delivered my presentation yesterday and it went really well. The feedback afterwards was overwhelming. "That was really cool!", "What a fun presentation!", "Thank you for so brilliantly conveying the importance of our work!" and many many more. I would not have done it this way without you.

I would like to thank you for the helpful advice you gave me during our 1:1 coaching session. Presentation went very well and the audience gave wonderful feedback. My line manager just spoke with me and said 'Great presentation, it's obvious how much effort you put into it.

Sarah has been fantastic to work with. She takes the time to understand what is needed, to explore difficult questions and to push when pushing is required. She is patient, thoughtful and incredibly intuitive. I found Sarah’s style straightforward and consultative, her approach is tempered with kindness and without judgement. I can not recommend her highly enough.