Executive Communication and Leadership Presence

The Room Stops
When You Speak.

We build charisma, authority, and presence from the inside out. Grounded in neuroscience, led by world class coaches, delivered for leaders who refuse to shrink.

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Voice.
Your
Stage.

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50+

Years Combined Experience

1200+

Leaders Transformed

30+

Years of Applied Practice

Proprietary Frameworks

Why Ignite

Charisma is not born. It is built.

Most executives are brilliant behind closed doors. But the moment they step into a boardroom, a pitch meeting, or onto a stage, something shifts. The heart rate climbs. The words lose their edge. The presence disappears.

That is not a skills gap. According to neuroscience, it is a nervous system regulation problem. And we are the only team in Canada who addresses it at that level.

Ignite My Voice was founded on one truth. Presence is biological before it is behavioural. We fix it at the root.

The Problem

Your message is powerful. Your delivery is not landing the way it should. Investors, boards, and audiences are not feeling your conviction.

The Gap

Traditional coaching teaches scripts and techniques. We regulate the nervous system first. Then everything else clicks into place.

The Ignite Difference

Over 50 years of combined expertise. Four proprietary frameworks. One transformative result. You walk into any room and you own it.

The Ignite Method

Four Proprietary Frameworks,
One Transformed Leader.

Built over 30 years of clinical practice, academic research, and real world leadership development.

Leader Regulation Lab

Presence is biological before it is behavioural. We regulate the nervous system first. When your internal state is calm and grounded, your authority radiates naturally.

The R3 Protocol

Recognize the signals of stress activation. Regulate through breath, posture, and nervous system tools. Respond with clarity, intention, and full presence.

Charismatic Expression Hierarchy

From regulation to alignment to expression to connection to influence. A five stage model that builds charisma from the inside out, not from the outside in.

Ignite Diagnostic Model

We identify your specific Mind Blocks, Body Blocks, and Heart Blocks. Then we build a targeted program to eliminate them permanently.

What Sets Us Apart

Traditional training teaches performance. We train presence.

Other programs focus on scripts, gestures, and delivery techniques. Ignite works upstream, where communication is actually determined. The result is not a polished performance. It is authentic, unshakeable authority.

The Real Problem

Traditional Training Doesn't Work

Your leaders know what to do. The problem is their nervous system won't let them do it when it counts. No script fixes that.

71%

of employees are disengaged

Leaders trained on scripts and slide decks fail to create the human connection that drives team performance and retention.

2×

more likely to leave a poor leader

When executives can't regulate under pressure, they trigger fight-or-flight in their teams — destroying psychological safety from the top down.

89%

of HR failures trace to soft skills

Yet most leadership programs address behavior and scripts — completely ignoring the nervous system triggers that hijack presence in high-stakes moments.

AI era

makes human presence non-negotiable

As automation replaces tasks, the leaders who can regulate themselves, read a room, and build genuine trust become your organization's irreplaceable asset.

The root cause isn't knowledge. It's nervous system dysregulation.

Leader Regulation Lab™ addresses leadership presence at the biological level — where all human connection actually begins.

Organizational Outcomes

Results That Move the Needle

When leaders regulate, everything improves — engagement, retention, decision quality, and team trust.

↑ 34%

Increase in psychological safety scores

↑ 41%

Employee engagement after 6 months

↓ 28%

Reduction in leadership-related conflicts

What We Offer

Everything You Need to Command Any Room

Delivered to corporations, small groups, and individuals. Our team comes to you.

One on One Coaching

Deep, private work with a senior Ignite coach. We identify your specific regulation blocks and build a presence that is entirely your own.

Private Intensive

Executive Workshops

High impact group sessions for leadership teams. Experiential, evidence based, and immediately transferable to real business situations.

Group Format

Corporate Programs

We come to your organization. Custom built programs that build communication capability and leadership presence across your entire team.

On Site Delivery

Keynote Coaching

Preparing for the most important presentation of your career? We build your story, your stage presence, and your delivery from the ground up.

High Stakes Prep

Investor Pitch Training

Stand in front of capital with absolute conviction. We train founders and executives to pitch with clarity, composure, and magnetic confidence.

Pitch Mastery

On Camera and Media

Podcasts, TV interviews, press conferences, and video content. We build the version of you that dominates every screen and microphone.

Media Presence

Real World Impact

What changes after
we leave the building.

Sales productivity rebounds

Reps re-engage with the work; managers coach instead of pressure.

Leadership credibility rises

Leaders are trusted in uncertainty — the thing that actually retains talent.

Psychological safety returns

People speak honestly again. Problems surface earlier. Decisions improve.

Conflict drops

Regulated leaders transmit calm. Reactive cycles in the team break.

Engagement & retention climb

People stay where they feel seen, safe, and led with intention.

Decision-making under pressure improves

Teams stop freezing, stop thrashing, and start moving.

The Ignite Team

Led by World Class Experts and
Backed by a Full Team.

Ignite My Voice is not a two person operation. Our senior coaches Kathryn Stewart and Kevin Ribble lead a growing team of communication specialists, each selected for their expertise and their shared belief that every leader deserves to be heard.

Kathryn Stewart

Co Founder and Lead Coach

With 32 years of experience spanning performance, communication psychology, and leadership development, Kathryn brings an extraordinary depth of expertise to every session. Her work integrates nervous system regulation, voice development, and authentic storytelling at the highest level.

BA Applied ArtsMSc Organizational PsychologyTheatre, UVicBCIT Faculty

Kevin Ribble

Co Founder and Lead Coach

Kevin brings graduate level expertise in communication science, curriculum development, and adult learning to every program we build. His methodology is precise, evidence based, and designed for leaders who operate in high stakes environments where every word counts.

MA Communication, SFUBEd, U of AlbertaAdult LearningBCIT Faculty

60 Years of Combined Expertise. One Clear Mission.

Together, Kathryn and Kevin developed four proprietary frameworks used by executives, founders, and leaders across North America. When you work with Ignite, you work with a full team built around the same standard of excellence they have dedicated their careers to.

Client Results

What Leaders Say After Ignite

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I walked into my Series B pitch feeling completely grounded for the first time in my career. The investors felt it. We closed. Ignite did not teach me to perform. They taught me to show up.

Marcus T.

Founder, SaaS Platform. Vancouver

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They can work with you to define your needs and what you're trying to achieve and not come at it from a prescriptive way…they have a process, they put you through, that'll get you to where you need to be as an individual or for your organization.

Barry Forward

Executive Coach, Reboot Forward

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I have been in boardrooms for 20 years and still felt nervous presenting to the executive committee. After working with Kathryn, I understand why. And I know exactly what to do about it. This changed everything.

Diane L.

VP Operations, Financial Services

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Kat, Kevin and the entire team have helped me in a big way over the years. And they can do the same for you. They have incredible knowledge and expertise, and have worked with so many people on so many projects through so many decades, it goes without saying they're as good as it gets when it comes to voice coaching and working with people…

Joey Kenward

Canucks Sports & Entertainment Host, Reporter and Account Manager

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Kevin rebuilt my keynote from the ground up. Three weeks later I delivered to 800 people and did not feel one moment of fear. The audience felt the difference. My team felt the difference. I felt the difference.

James R.

CEO, Manufacturing Group. Calgary

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I would recommend Kat and Kevin because they're unlike anything I've ever experienced. I went from a place of fear, frustration, and anxiety, to a place of success and confidence. I'm forever grateful for that. And there's no team better that you could possibly ask for if you want to strive to be good at something but don't know how to do it.

Michael Popove

News Director CJDC TV

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I would recommend Kat and Kevin for anybody who is trying to find a way to be more authentic. Authenticity is an impossible task if you don't know how to reach in and provide that...it is also the greatest path to success for sales or any type of business. We want an authentic interaction to build trust; most relationships are built on trust. This team helps you figure things out to be the best you can be.

Joseph O'Too

Executive Clothiere, LGFG Fashion House

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