Speaking

As a master presenter and performer, Elle takes the skills she developed on stage as an actress and funnels them into her interactive, energetic programs. Her keynote and workshop topics include:

No More Playing Small: Speak Up, Stand Out, and Soar

From building her “No Muscle” through hundreds of Broadway rejections, to being introduced on a corporate stage as simply “his wife,” Elle knows what it feels like to shrink. In this interactive, high-energy keynote, she shares the personal stories and hard-won tools behind stepping out of invisibility and into her own authority.

Audiences learn that confidence isn’t a personality trait — it’s a pattern of proof, built one uncomfortable rep at a time.

Through story, humor, and practical mindset tools, this session helps professional women stop hiding in plain sight, reclaim their voice, and take up space — unapologetically.

Get to the Core of Who You Really Are Using the Enneagram

Self-awareness leads to transformation. The Enneagram is a system of nine personality types, combining ancient wisdom with modern psychology. It’s a tool to help you know yourself and understand others better.  Using the enneagram, Elle guides you to identify your type and dominant style that frames your perspective on everything —relationships, communication, personal development, and motivation. She shares an overview of all nine types and their unique driving motivations, how we are all connected and how we can each rise to our potential.

Participants walk away with deepened self-awareness and enhanced compassion for yourself, along with heightened empathy for others.

Present Like a Pro: Executive Presence That Commands the Room

Executive presence isn’t a title, a tailored suit, or a big personality walking through the door — it’s the intangible force that makes people lean in, listen, and follow. Drawing on her years as a professional actress and decades coaching executives, Elle breaks down the real anatomy of presence: 67% gravitas, 28% communication, and just 5% appearance. In this interactive session, leaders learn how mindset, body language, and voice combine to build authority — from the words we default to under pressure, to the physical cues an audience reads in the first seven seconds.

Participants walk away with practical tools to sound more confident, carry themselves with more authority, and stop letting fillers, hedging language, and small habits undercut their message.Think you need to be born with charisma in order to lead? Not so! In this powerful and engaging presentation, actress-turned-entrepreneur Elle Zimmerman will help you build and communicate your personal brand. Drawing on her years on the professional stage, Elle teaches easy-to-apply techniques to help audiences develop Executive Presence in the workplace.

Audiences will learn to banish insecurities, present with energy and make memorable impressions in meetings. Get ready to learn how to capitalize on your unique abilities to confidently answer the question “So, what do you do?”

The Human Advantage: Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI

Change is the New Normal: How to Gracefully Transition

Change is constant and inevitable, both in life and in work, whether we like it or not. Instead of letting change overwhelm us and stunt our growth, veteran corporate speaker and leadership coach Elle Zimmerman helps audiences to navigate change with grace. Learn about the two main types of workplace transitions, the five keys to navigating any transition, and the tools to help you eliminate fear so that change propels you and your business forward.

Executive Coaching

As a certified coach, generous listener, and intuitive leader, Elle meets you exactly where you are to get you to the next level, best version of yourself.

Executive Coaching For Leaders

Elevate Your Leadership. Inspire Excellence. Lead with Impact.

Running a private club isn’t just about operations—it’s about people, performance, and prestige. As a General Manager at an exclusive country club, you face the daily challenge of leading high-touch service teams while balancing the expectations of discerning members, demanding boards, and a competitive hospitality market.

This 12 month executive coaching program is designed specifically for leaders navigating complex team dynamics, member relations, and organizational change while striving to deliver world-class experiences.

Through highly personalized, confidential coaching, you’ll develop the skills and strategies necessary to lead with clarity, confidence, and composure. Whether you’re navigating boardroom politics, managing cross-departmental conflict, coaching your department heads, or setting the tone for your club’s culture, this program will give you the tools to lead more intentionally, communicate more effectively, and drive high performance across your team.

Coaching focuses on real-time challenges and delivers immediately applicable tools to help you:

• Strengthen your executive presence and leadership brand
  
• Master difficult conversations with staff, members, and the board
  
• Build, lead, and retain high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams
  
• Manage conflict proactively and professionally
  
• Foster a culture of accountability, respect, and service excellence
  
• Improve decision-making and navigate change with strategic insight
  

We begin with a strategic goal-setting session to identify the key challenges you face and the leadership objectives you want to achieve. From there, coaching is focused, actionable, and entirely personalized—giving you a trusted space to think critically, troubleshoot in real-time, and grow into the next-level leader your club needs.

Executive Presence and Influence 

Social and Emotional Intelligence, Communication and Interpersonal skills, Confidence, Presentation Coaching, Difficult Conversations, Personal Image, Networking

This is for you if you….

• Ever feel invisible or overlooked
• Struggle to influence or motivate others
• Feel social anxiety or performance anxiety
• Want a second chance after a flopped first impression
• Wish you could express yourself better
• Lack fulfillment professionally

You don’t have to be born with amazing charisma and people skills to master them. With decades of experience in the performing arts and corporate speaking, Elle is a master of helping you show up in EVERY situation as YOU—authentic, elegant, fully present and powerful. 

Elle will coach you to successfully…

• Present yourself with confidence and credibility
• Navigate difficult conversations with grace
• Position yourself and your expertise so that people lean in to listen
• Communicate your pitch to maximize networking experiences
• Find the root cause of your communication issues, or why you feel inauthentic in how you show up
• See all angles in team dynamics and interpersonal relationships
• Practice and role-play conversations or presentations
• Learn the basics of body language, posture, gesture, eye contact and vocal power to build confidence and exude executive presence. 
• Master the art of small talk

Team Coaching: Building Better Leaders, Building Better Teams

Productivity, Collaboration, Delegating, Boosting Retention, Communication, Leadership Development

This is for you if you…

• Lead a team of 3-15 people
• Want to avoid patterns of dysfunction and competitiveness
• Find that personality differences are getting in the way of work
• Value authenticity in team communication
• Want to level up your team culture to boost retention
• Need better numbers  (AKA, results!)

Teams work better together and have higher levels of productivity when members of that team are connecting in a genuine way—without pettiness, competition or miscommunication. Using the Enneagram as a tool to help individuals understand their own motivations and the motivations of their fellow team members, Elle will increase your team’s effectiveness and break down barriers to allow better functioning.

Elle will help teams to…

• Develop effective communication 
• Understand each other’s motivations
• Become aware of everyone’s genius zones and pitfalls
• Appreciate uniqueness among team members
• Create cohesion, compassion and acceptance
• Navigate conflict and stress productively
• Become more flexible in a changing environment

Consulting

With over twenty years in the professional speaking industry plus a career in acting and spokesperson work, Elle Zimmerman will help you launch your thought leader platform and expand your influence. 

If you want to grow your business or your thought-leader platform, there is no better way to do it than speaking from a stage.

While building a speaking career may feel intimidating, it doesn’t have to be.

Why Elle?

Elle is the Executive Producer leading her business partner, Curtis Zimmerman’s professional speaking career. Curtis has spoken to over one million people around the globe earning the title of Certified Speaking Professional from the National Speakers Association—a certification awarded to less than 15% of all professional speakers. Elle also produced and published Curtis’ book Life at Performance Level and directed the book launch driving it to become a #1 National Bestseller on Amazon.

Now, Elle is taking her decades of industry experience in college, corporate, non-profit, associations, and military to help select aspiring speakers share their expertise from the stage. 

Her tailored-to-you guidance and insider feedback will give you specific steps to take as you ascend to new heights in your speaking career.

Schedule a discovery call here to find out if working with Elle could be a good fit for you. 

Elle will help you to:

• Identify target industries 
• Strategize next steps to getting paid bookings
• Position yourself as an expert in a way that appeals to those who book speakers
• Learn who the decision-makers and gatekeepers are in the various industries
• Determine your ideal business model
• Maximize each speaking engagement to your advantage

Elle’s clients have gone on to: 

• Run for Kentucky state senate
• Speak to 20,000 Airmen in the U.S. Air Force
• Add speaking to their psychotherapy roster of services
• Consult with executives in Fortune 100 companies
• Launch from a career in acting into speaking in corporate America
• Win major pitch competitions

Some areas where we works with our clients include:

• Professional Speaking
• Personal Brand development and positioning
• Ghostwriting
• Podcast production
• Audiobook Production
• Social Media positioning strategy, plan, content development and execution

Enneagram

Self-awareness leads to transformation. The Enneagram is a system of nine personality types, combining ancient wisdom with modern psychology. It’s a tool to help you know yourself and understand others better.

Self-awareness, increased compassion, celebrating strengths, recognizing weaknesses, stepping into the fullest version of yourself. 

This is for you if you…

• Wish you could show up as a more authentic version of yourself
• Feel stuck and are ready to reach new levels of success
• Struggle to control your reactions and lose control in front of others
• Desire more joy and fulfillment
• Feel trapped in resentments and frustration
• Struggle to connect with others as deeply as you want to

Self-awareness leads to transformation. The Enneagram is a system of nine personality types, combining ancient wisdom with modern psychology. It’s a tool to help you know yourself and understand others better, and Enneagram coaching with Elle will give you clear paths to thrive and evolve to the best version of yourself. 

Elle is certified in both The Enneagram in Business and is pursuing a certification in the Narrative Enneagram.

Elle will coach you to successfully…

• Uncover blind spots that may be keeping you stuck
• Celebrate your strengths and what makes you uniquely you
• Find triggers and motivations that are working under the surface
• Make strides in your life toward what brings you joy
• Deepen your relationships and grow your compassion for others

How Coaching Works: 

• Typing  – An in-depth combination of assessments, conversation and self-reflection to determine your type—or if you already know your type, a process to confirm and determine your subtype and dominate wing
• Enneagram Overview fully personalized to you
• Ongoing personal/professional development with Elle through the lens of the Enneagram

There are lots of ways to implement this kind of coaching: 

• Family typing (The Enneagram is a great parenting tool!)
• Team typing (You’ll be able to play on strengths like never before.)
• Relationship typing—couples, best friends, siblings (You’ll finally get inside each other’s heads!)