David Roylance is a leadership coach. He is the UK’s No 1 female focus voice and body language specialist. Typically his clients will be women in senior roles in large corporates who often come to him with a similar story. “I’m confident and I am strong” they say “So how come when I open my mouth in those big meetings, 10 seconds later I am wondering if anyone can see me or hear me.” Often when they do speak their ideas are either ignored, stolen or “mansplained” from the other side of the table. What they get from working with David are the secrets of how you take charge of how your voice and body resonate so you can show up and shine. Where he has an excellent track record is helping women get themselves promoted into board room or head of department positions as well as coaching women into asking for and receiving significant pay rises.
He is a professional actor having studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama alongside Daniel Craig, Ewan McGregor and Damien Lewis, under the tutelage of Patsy Rodenburg, Head of Voice at the National Theatre and voice coach to some of the greatest actors and speakers alive today.
After working for several years as an actor and theatre director, running his own theatre company touring Shakespeare plays and Christmas pantomime around schools, David found that the most money he made as an actor was in representing corporate businesses from the stage. When those businesses asked him to teach them how to do it themselves, David began working as a trainer and coach as an associate of a few companies.
Despite reassurances that it would never happen, when the second dip of the recession hit, both of the companies David spent the most time working with went belly up leaving David with no income, a large mortgage and a young family to feed. This was when David decided to focus on developing his own company and his own brand. The moment of decision came when he saw Jeff Slayter and Kane Minkus of Industry Rockstar speak at the National Achiever’s Congress. Immediately he made arrangements to borrow the money necessary to begin his journey on building his business, first with Kane Minkus and now also with Alessia Marini too.
David has over 20 years of experience working with FTSE 250 companies, SMEs, entrepreneurs and charities. He has been responsible for fast tracking the first woman onto the board of the RBS and teaching skills that have allowed executives to double their income within a week of intervention. He has also worked with people at board room level at Barclays, Standard Life and Coutts. He has delivered courses for staff at Zurich Insurance, American Express, Orange, Aviva and Turner Entertainment.
David also works with entrepreneurs and business start up including a number of digital entrepreneurs. He teaches young actors how to hold their own in difficult conversations at 3 of the UK’s top drama schools and has a wonderful family to support and be supported with.
