Ann Baker Professional Coaching

Does your spoken communication consistently produce your desired result? When speaking, does your audience know that you understand their thoughts and feelings about the subject?

Ann Baker's Coaching assists the speaker to present authentically, to connect his or her thoughts and feelings to those of the audience. Only when an audience can see, hear and feel the presenter, does communication become effective and memorable.

Ann Baker brings 30 years experience as a casting director to her professional clients. She knows that the qualities that make actors great are same qualities that make professionals powerful communicators. Known to many theater professionals as the "Queen of Casting", Ann Baker founded Ann Baker Casting in 1980. She served as casting director for several series and movies seen on ABC-TV, PBS, HBO, CBS, and NBC. She produced New York City's Off-Broadway production of First Night and has coached some of Boston's most well-known radio personalities. She is currently an associate casting director at Boston Casting and the on-camera commercial technique coach at the Media Performance Institute in Boston.

Ann Baker's professional coaching skill is derived from theater-based techniques used to help actors move an audience. Her clients range from actors and television spokespersons to corporate CEO's and executive management teams and political candidates.