Meet Jenn
I'm not a tech startup founder. I have never raised a round. Yet, that's exactly why this works..
“I believe the best ideas deserve to be heard. That where you grew up, what language you think in, and whether you went to Stanford or a state school in São Paulo should have nothing to do with whether the room believes in you. That's not the world we live in yet, but it's the one I'm working toward, one founder at a time.”
I’ve spent 20 years watching what happens when brilliant people can't communicate how brilliant they are, and what changes when they finally can.
I've watched a founder lose a room full of investors not because his business was weak, but because he apologized for his accent before he even started. I've watched a CEO from Lima walk into a negotiation expecting to sell his company and walk out having acquired one instead because he finally knew how to communicate like someone who belonged in the buyer's seat. I've watched founders from France, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile close rounds they'd been chasing for months, simply because someone finally told them the unwritten rules.
Why I Do This
I have a drama degree, TESOL training, and nearly two decades of teaching people how to communicate under pressure — in classrooms, boardrooms, and Zoom calls with founders who have a meeting in 12 hours.
The drama degree taught me something most business training ignores: what you say matters, but how you say it determines whether people believe you. Presence, voice, breath, and pacing aren't just soft skills, they're the difference between a room that leans in and a room that checks out.
The TESOL training taught me something equally important: the gap between knowing your business and being able to explain it clearly in your second language is real, specific, and completely fixable. It's not a confidence problem or an accent problem. It's an information problem, and information problems have solutions.
I spent years teaching professional communication to adult newcomers through the Government of Canada's LINC program. I taught in South Korea and Thailand. I've worked with founders and executives across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America.
The pattern I kept seeing was the same everywhere: The best ideas don't always win. The best communicated ideas do.
That didn't sit right with me, so I built a business around fixing it.
What I Actually Do
I coach seed through Series B tech founders on the communication that closes rounds — not by giving you a template and wishing you luck, but by going slide by slide, question by question, moment by moment through your actual pitch until you understand not just what to say but why it works.
I speak startup. I know what TAM/SAM/SOM means. I can talk unit economics, product-market fit, and go-to-market strategy without needing it explained. You're not spending session time teaching me your industry. We spend it entirely on helping you communicate it better.
I don't show up with a rigid program and fit you into it. I show up to your actual pitch, your actual challenges, your actual voice, and we build from there. Every founder I work with gets something different because every founder is different. That's not a feature and that's the whole point.
I work almost exclusively with non-native English speaking founders and first time tech founders (most of them from Latin America, the US, and Quebec), raising capital in a system that wasn't designed for them. My approach doesn't erase your accent or try to make you sound like someone else. It makes you sound like the most confident, clear version of yourself, in a language investors actually respond to.
I don't sugarcoat. If something isn't working, I'll tell you, and then I'll show you exactly how to fix it. Not "be more engaging." Specific, actionable, timestamped: slow down here, replace this word, try this phrasing instead.
A Little More About Me
The founders I work with aren't clients to me. They're people I'm genuinely rooting for during their raise, after it, and in the moments in between when nobody else is paying attention. That's just how I'm wired.
I'm based in Calgary, Canada, and I coach founders remotely worldwide. Most of my clients have never met me in person. The work we do together still changes everything.
I'm a parent, a lifelong learner, and someone who genuinely believes that clear communication unlocks opportunities that change lives.
I'm selective about who I work with because I only take founders I'm genuinely confident I can help. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you honestly and point you somewhere better.
If you've read this far, you probably already know whether this is for you.