Most speaking training
makes it worse.
77% fear
public speaking
And 70% view presentation skills as vital to their career growth.
Typical training triggers anxiety through harsh critique. It fails because it ignores the keys to good public speaking: passion, conviction, and connection.
Source: National Institute of Mental Health data on glossophobia.
Passion
Speaking from what you care about.
Conviction
Attention on the message.
Connection
Reaching the room in front of you.
Built for organisations that want to make high-quality communication training available to everyone – privately, personally and at scale.
Build for learning at scale.
Emme goes beyond technique.
People rarely struggle with speaking because they do not know what to do. They struggle because they do not see themselves as speakers, and because their attention is on themselves rather than on their message for the audience.
Define what you care about
Emme starts with your material and what matters to you in it — not a checklist of techniques.
Speak from a place of passion
Move your attention off yourself and onto the room. Everything else — pace, presence, gesture — follows.
Practise without
judgement
As often as you need, in private. Repetition in private beats critique in public.
Start with our first learning module
ntros & Outros: the two moments that can transform a presentation
How you open determines whether people want to listen. How you close determines what they remember.
Emme's first learning module helps you create stronger introductions and conclusions, with practical techniques you can apply immediately to your own presentations.
Available now. And this is just the beginning.
More learning modules and practice scenarios are already in development.
WHY WE ARE BUILDING THIS
I have spent the last thirteen years coaching tens of thousands of speakers, from junior professionals through to the C-suite, in more than fifty countries. Emme is the methodology I built from that experience.
We built it so the people I can't reach in person can still have access to something that changes how they relate to their own voice.
Mette Johansson
Co-founder, Emme · Global Speaker Fellow (top 50 worldwide) · MBA, PCC, CSP · Author · Former spokesperson, €74B group · Founder of KeyNote Women Speakers
About Mette Johansson
Mette Johansson is the co-founder of Emme and the author of the methodology behind it. Over thirteen years she has coached speakers in more than fifty countries, from junior professionals through to the C-suite, and has been named a Global Speaker Fellow — a distinction held by roughly fifty speakers worldwide. She holds an MBA and is certified as a PCC coach and a Certified Speaking Professional.
Before founding her own practice she was the spokesperson for a €74 billion group. She is the founder of KeyNote Women Speakers, a network created to put more women on conference stages, and the author of several books on authentic leadership. Emme exists so that the methodology she teaches in person is available to the people she cannot reach in a room.
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Questions we get asked
What is Emme?
How is Emme different from presentation skills training?
Emme is an AI speaking coach. It provides structured lessons, practice scenarios matched to your real situation, and specific feedback on how you delivered — privately, as often as you want. It is built on the presentation-skills methodology Mette Johansson has taught to executives and teams in more than fifty countries over the past thirteen years.
Conventional training puts people in a room and critiques them in front of their colleagues, which for most people deepens the fear rather than reducing it. Emme starts from what a person cares about and moves their attention off themselves and onto the audience, and lets them repeat that in private. Repetition without an audience beats critique in front of one.
Can AI replace a human speaking coach?
Not entirely, nor does it need to. Some speaking skills are particularly well suited to AI-supported learning: structured practice, repetition, personalised scenarios and immediate feedback. Other development benefits from a human coach. That's why Emme can be used on its own or as part of a blended learning journey.
Who is Emme for?
Anyone who has to present, speak, and be understood at work. In practice that is three groups: leaders who want faster, clearer meetings; individuals who want to be more confident and more visible; and HR or L&D teams who would like to arrange presentation training to far more people than a workshop can reach.
How is Emme delivered?
As a pure AI product, or blended with webinars, group training and one-to-one coaching. The AI is available to every employee on demand; the human formats sit on top where they add the most value.
Is AI coaching as effective as working with a real coach?
Yes, though the more useful distinction is this: certain skills are effectively acquired with an AI coach, and others are more effectively acquired with a human one. That's why we offer blended options. What AI coaching does uniquely well is scale: the quality of the coaching does not change whether ten people use it or ten thousand, and it stays available long after any workshop has ended, which is the point at which traditional training usually stops working.
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