Train the freeze
Who it is for
Speakers whose body raises its guard and whose voice tightens on a stage.
What changes
Your delivery holds when the freeze arrives.
Matt is hands down the BEST communication and performance coach I have ever worked with.
He helped frame a narrative that felt more grounded and closer to our product.
- 20+ years
- coaching
- Hundreds
- AMAs hosted
- Thousands of hours
- speaking live
Communication coaching For words that carry consequence
Your words are important. Train their delivery like you train everything else in life.
Under pressure some people might freeze. Others know their idea so well they cannot hear where it loses the room. Either can cost the deal.
I find the break, rebuild the message and train the freeze until it holds.
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Every session is led by me.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mad Hatter across Quantum Economics and Quantum Expeditions, and one of his greatest strengths is his ability to take a complex vision and turn it into a compelling story.
His coaching and pitch development work have been incredibly valuable to QEX, helping us sharpen our messaging, strengthen our investor presentations, and communicate our vision with greater clarity and confidence.
Beyond the pitch itself, Hatter has played an important role in keeping QEX visible, building relationships, and maintaining momentum throughout our fundraising efforts. He understands that raising capital isn’t just about having a great business. It’s about telling the right story, reaching the right people, and building trust over time.
He’s a creative thinker, a natural communicator, and someone who genuinely invests himself in the success of the people and projects he works with.
Founder & CEO, Quantum Economics
Matt’s coaching was fundamental in helping us accelerate our growth and reach. He helped frame a narrative that felt more grounded and closer to our product. Working with us on delivering that narrative further helped us identify holes in our own understanding we had otherwise overlooked. Highly recommend using him.
Matt is hands down the BEST communication and performance coach I have ever worked with. And I have been searching for someone like him for YEARS.
I have spoken on international stages for years, and working with Matt was the extraordinary upleveling I had been looking for throughout my speaking career. He took my TEDx talk and my abilities as a speaker to a level I genuinely never imagined possible.
Matt is a master of communication, storytelling, and performance. He helped me find the right words, strengthen the structure of my talk, sharpen my message, and transform how I delivered it. He taught me how to move from talking AT an audience to truly connecting WITH them. How to use tone, pacing, pauses, movement, energy, and emotion to bring a message to life. How to take a presentation that could feel like a lecture and turn it into an experience people could feel.
He took me from delivering a speech to commanding a stage and connecting with hearts.
We worked on everything from the smallest changes in my voice to completely different approaches to delivering a single sentence. He showed me how to be dynamic, playful, powerful, vulnerable, intimate, and commanding, sometimes within the same minute. He helped me find a range and versatility in my communication that I didn’t even know I had.
And here’s the part I absolutely LOVE. On that TEDx stage, I felt like OPRAH! I felt completely alive, connected, confident, and in command of the room. I could feel the audience with me. It was magical.
After my talk, nearly 50 people came up to me. They shared how deeply the message resonated, how moved they were, and how much the experience meant to them. It was one of the most extraordinary moments of my speaking career.
I know with absolute certainty that my TEDx performance would never have been what it was without Matt.
What makes him exceptional is his ability to see the speaker you are capable of becoming and help you get there. His artistic brilliance, intuition, emotional intelligence, and understanding of human connection are extraordinary. He knows how to unlock something in you that changes everything.
I had been speaking for years. Matt helped me discover an entirely new level of speaking.
He fundamentally changed how I think about communication, storytelling, and connecting with an audience. What he taught me will stay with me on every stage I step onto for the rest of my career.
If you are a speaker, executive, entrepreneur, or anyone who wants to communicate with greater impact, WORK WITH MATT. He is phenomenal. He is a genius at his craft. And he is worth every penny.
Matt, thank you for giving me the upleveling I had been searching for all these years. You helped me create one of the most powerful and meaningful performances of my life. I am forever grateful! ❤️
Working with Matt completely transformed how I deliver my message. The biggest game-changer for me was learning the power of the strategic pause between sentences, as well as the daily practice technique of reading aloud news and materials. These actionable techniques dramatically improved my clarity and confidence. If you want to elevate your public speaking skills, I highly recommend working with Matt.
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Fintech and digital asset leaders
Specialist coaching for founders and executives facing regulators, investors and communities, sometimes in the same week. I have spent years inside web3, AI and fintech, so I know the language, the pressure and the audiences. I have rebuilt pitches from the ground up around their real value, and the companies behind them have gone on to raise millions.
Executive coaching
Who it is for
Chief executives, founders and senior professionals preparing for board meetings, investor pitches, keynotes and public appearances.
What changes
You walk in knowing exactly what you want the room to do.
Talks and TEDx
Who it is for
Speakers with a conference talk, keynote or TEDx deadline.
What changes
A tight script and a delivery you’ve already tested.
Group and company sessions
Who it is for
Leadership teams, company-wide events and groups of speakers preparing to present together.
What changes
Your people present the company with one consistent standard, and each keeps their own voice.
On retainer
A set number of hours each month, spent on what your people need to say next.
Companies bring me in for an agreed number of hours each month. Each month I work with your people on the communication that matters most at that point, from public speaking and presentations to individual messaging and everyday team communication.
Public speaking
Who it is for
Founders, executives and spokespeople with talks, pitches and presentations in the diary.
What changes
Each one is prepared and rehearsed with me, so the message holds in the room.
Individual messaging
Who it is for
Leaders who speak to investors, customers, staff and press.
What changes
Your message stays clear and consistent, and still sounds like you.
Everyday communication
Who it is for
Managers and teams who communicate through meetings, updates and difficult conversations.
What changes
Meetings and updates become clearer, and difficult conversations are easier to have.
You agree the hours that suit your business, and I use them each month on the work above. The fee is confirmed after the free assessment.
Book a free assessmentHow I work
Free assessment
Tell me what you’re preparing for and when. I find what is actually holding your message back, and you leave knowing where I would start with you and what the work involves.
Build the script
Structure, openings and closings, edited until the words sound like you. For talks and TEDx, built backwards from your date.
Steady the body and voice
On a stage the body raises its guard and the voice tightens. I work on breath, voice and intent until your delivery holds when the freeze arrives.
Rehearse under real conditions
Structured run-throughs with direct feedback on delivery, cadence and presence, run in conditions that match your room, including the questions you’ll face.
Walk in ready
The voice, pace and intent are ready, so the message lands the way you chose.
Keep it
The change is built on your own voice and habits, so it holds every time you speak after this one.
About me
I’m Matt. I coach speakers, founders and executives, and I bring what I learned running organisations. Nine years owning a restaurant showed me how fast a vague instruction becomes a service problem.
I wrote pitches that companies used to raise multi-million-pound rounds, and I worked alongside the British Army as a civilian, training soldiers and officers in communication.
My training as an actor gives me the craft of delivery. The rest gives me the business behind it.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Matt across blockchain, AI, business and entrepreneurship, and he’s consistently impressed me with his professionalism, preparation and depth of knowledge.
He’s analytical, thoughtful, relentlessly positive and incredibly supportive. I’ve watched him host countless X Spaces, lead huge online communities and navigate complex discussions with confidence, clarity and genuine enthusiasm.
Matt has a natural ability to engage people, simplify complicated subjects and bring out the best in others. Above all, he’s a genuinely good human being, and someone I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend.
How I price
Each coaching session is one hour and focuses on what you want to work on and how you want to change it. Your fee is confirmed after your free assessment.
Sessions from £200$270€235
Packages from £950$1,300€1,100
Teams and groups quoted per day
Retainers quoted per month
What moves the price: the format, the number of sessions, how much script work is involved, and your timeline. Block bookings cost less per session.
Questions
Book a free assessment
Choose a time for a conversation of up to 30 minutes. I’ll ask what you’re preparing for and what you need, then tell you where I’d start.
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