LAMDA Exams & Specialist Speech Coaching

Empowering you to find your voice

Would you like to learn how to:

• Engage, captivate, and influence any audience with confidence and ease?

• Utilise your full range of expressive capabilities to communicate powerfully?

• Manage anxiety through breath control, enabling you to feel balanced, calm, and confident every time you speak?

• Strengthen and protect your voice for greater resilience, ensuring it remains strong and healthy?

• Fill any space with your voice, making it richer, louder, and more compelling?

• Build auditory dexterity with clear, articulate speech that resonates?

• Expand your vocal range to project, emphasise, emote, and engage effectively?

• Master communication dynamics - pacing, pitch, tone, volume, and energy - for maximum impact?

The Power of Storytelling

The greatest speakers, know that storytelling is the key to capturing the imagination of your audience. Storytelling allows you to deliver key messages in a way that is memorable, inspirational and motivational. Through expert coaching, with the option to take LAMDA Exams, you can discover your storytelling style, learn how to construct a compelling narrative and how to adapt content to engage different audiences.

Communicate with Impact

Speech coaching teaches you how to harness the full power of your voice and body to communicate with confidence and impact. Regardless of age or where you are in your education or career journey, having the tools to articulate your thoughts with confidence, precision, and influence is essential.

LAMDA Examinations offer a focused and rewarding pathway to enhance your vocal, physical and emotional communication skills, whether you're pursuing a career in the performing arts, looking to improve your public speaking at work, or simply want to enhance your day to day communication skills. Through structured practice and assessment, you can gain confidence and proficiency that will serve you in both personal and professional spheres.

I have a proven track record of coaching individuals in schools and businesses. I am pleased to announce that I can now offer coaching and entry for LAMDA Speech, Drama and Communication Graded Exams as well. I work with adults and children of all ages.

Specialist Speech and Communication Coaching

(Without exams)

Would you like to improve your speech clarity and enhance your daily communication skills to feel more confident and independent, without need to take exams?

• Are you learning English and looking to improve your articulation of specific sounds?

• Do you have a long-term physical condition that makes speaking challenging?

• Are you recovering from a stroke or illness and working to regain your speech abilities?

• Are you dealing with a stress-related speech condition and seeking relief?

• Have you tried speech therapy in the past but struggled to see progress?

I can help you.

I will work with you to understand what your personal challenges are, tailoring sessions to:

• Reduce your stress and anxiety;

• Develop your confidence, with strategies unique to you;

• Improve your articulation and clarity.

I offer an alternative to traditional speech therapy using methods that incorporate augmentative articulation techniques (e.g. gesture, body language, facial expressions, rhythm) to empower you to express yourself in a way that makes you feel comfortable.

What you get:

• A free 45 minute initial assessment so that we can both assess if and how we can work together;

• Regular, ongoing, one-to-one sessions taken at your pace;;

• Online or in person sessions in a safe, relaxed, non-judgemental, non-competitive environment, which can be your own home;*

• ‘Outside the box’ thinking: I look holistically at what you want and need

• Fun and enjoyment! I believe humour and laughter are essential ingredients to help you relax and achieve optimal progress.

  *In-person lessons are recommended, but I am afraid these are restricted to the Gloucestershire region only (UK). Travel costs will be additionally charged.

Whether you are seeking to enhance your everyday conversation skills, prepare for a significant public speaking event, gain UCAS points or develop confidence as a performer, I will coach you to achieve your very best performance.

About Cheryl Stapleton

Cheryl Stapleton BA(Hons) Drama, QTS, ISTA, STSD.

Speech & Performance Coach

Cheryl was awarded a BA(Hons) Drama (Brunel) and went on to train at École Philippe Gaulier as a professional actor. Cheryl also trained as a secondary school drama teacher at the London Arts Consortium, gaining Qualified Teacher Status and went on to teach Drama and Theatre Studies in London, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire. In 2013, Cheryl founded Learning Through Theatre to specialise in commedia dell’arte, physical theatre, and storytelling. Cheryl now teaches all ages and provides Continuing Professional Development for drama teachers, along with delivering curriculum-linked workshops for GCSE, A Level, and International Baccalaureate students.

Cheryl is a member of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama (STSD) and an Artist with the International School Theatre Association (ISTA), travelling globally to deliver specialist workshops.

Cheryl has developed a portfolio as a Speech Coach, focusing most recently on students with specific speech difficulties. Since 2014, she has provided coaching in Public Speaking to students at prestigious UK private schools and for corporate clients.

Cheryl has undergone enhanced DBS checks, is fully insured, Equity registered and Safeguarding and Child Protection trained.