Corinna Powlesland

Corinna is a specialist performance and presence coach who brings more than three decades of professional acting experience into her work with leaders and teams. Blending embodied practice with deep attention to relationship, she helps people access their authentic presence, communicate with clarity and confidence, and navigate moments of influence with greater ease.

A core part of her practice is one-to-one public speaking and speech presentation coaching, where she supports clients to refine their message, strengthen vocal presence, and speak with impact in high-stakes moments. Her approach draws on theatre-based techniques, applied improvisation, voice work and mindful awareness to help people feel grounded, expressive and genuinely themselves.

She has coached senior leaders and global teams across sectors, including programmes on virtual presence for Microsoftand influencing and personal impact with CIPD. As lead creative practitioner with The Donmar Warehouse, she designs masterclasses on presenting, communicating, and presence for partners such as Barclaycard and Deloitte. Her one-to-one coaching also supports executives and diplomats, including work with teams at FTI Consulting and DuckDuckGo.

Corinna utilises physical actor skills (presence/voice technique/breathing) with eastern traditions (yoga/mindfulness) in an approach which is nurturing, creative and truly holistic. This can be experienced at Oasis through our unique and innovative Speak To Be Heard programme which she leads alongside Glyn Fussell.

Corinna is an accredited coach and is committed to creating learning spaces where people can strengthen their presence, expand their influence and feel more fully themselves in the work they do.