About a year ago, I started a new role in sales. This was a bit scary because Ive never been in this type of position before and knew that I needed to grow my communication skills. Having worked with Mariam several years ago as part of a group for coaching on presentation skills, I knew it was critical to my success to have her one-on-one guidance. Mariam has a true gift that I have been blessed to experience! I now excel in having difficult conversations, having conversations with executive-level individuals, email communication, and overall strategy. I feel that anyone can benefit from working with Mariam as she taps into your strengths and weaknesses to grow your communication and overcome any fears and boundaries. I look forward to working with her throughout my career and highly recommend her to contribute to your success!

Performance English holds classes and coaching sessions to bring out the best in people to help them with public speaking. Mariams method is different from traditional public speaking classes because through all her courses, you learn to embody and embrace yourself to be able to speak more authentically. By refining and defining the inner you, Mariam helps you portray a more confident outer you.

Performance English helped myself and my employees work together to establish a better, clearer sense of our company vision and mission. Equipped with communication tools that Mariam and Peter provided over the course of multiple sessions, my team was better able to present their thoughts and goals. This in turn helped us to work together to create clear objectives that were important to all of us and implement strategy that would drive the growth of the business. Performance English was an invaluable resource for myself and my company.

I have started to take lessons from Performance English three years ago. It is one of the best decisions I have ever made, since the class not only help me reduce my accent, but also give me confidence to speak in public. Thumbs up!!

Soon after discovering Performance English, we attended a luncheon they held to “test the waters,” and I was driven to connect Performance English to my clients. In EVERY instance, (my clients) were transformed. Their presentation skills exceeded expectations. What was once difficult to understand was now incredibly powerful and effective! In each case, there was an overall increase in confidence, clarity and personal responsibility for what they create through effective communication. This was not just true for my clients; this has been true for me as well.”Rachelle Aspan, IT Acceleration Director, HTC midtown

With a company that 35% are minorities and are from 9 different countries, our employees are using Performance English online learning program Say it With Power to improve their communication skills. The program provides high quality training with flexible learning schedule that our employees were able to finish the program without interrupting their work schedule.

I have lived in the US for over 20 years with a Ph.D. from a US university. I spoke a decent English and was never too afraid of giving presentations. But deep inside, I lacked the confidence in leadership and public speaking because English is not my native language. Though I never stopped learning English by listening to tapes and radios, imitating actors and reciting dialogues, repeating certain words and phrases over and over again, nothing seemed to work satisfactorily. I was frustrated. Then I met Mariam in a workshop when shes giving a demonstration. With doubts, I decided to give it a try to her class. At the beginning I was not sure if it would work for me, because she started by teaching us the very basics, like the phonetics and even how to breathe while I wanted a quick fix. I was looking for a shortcut, a magic. But soon, I was pleased that I started to see my progress. What she teaches is the fundamentals, the building blocks. Once I learned the fundamentals, I can apply them everywhere, like building skyscrapers using the same building blocks. After one course, I have been convinced that the seemingly slow approach is actually a fast, effective, and long lasting way to learn. So I continued and took a couple of more advanced courses. Now I see my English is improving steadily and so is my confidence. I have won a number of public speech contests, which would have been beyond my imagination if I had not taken the classes. The progress I made in one year with Mariam surpasses what I made in 10 years. Taking the class from Mariam was the best decision I ever made in learning English. Thank you, Mariam and Performance English.

“Soon after discovering Performance English, we attended a luncheon they held to “test the waters,” and I was driven to connect Performance English to my clients. In EVERY instance, (my clients) were transformed. Their presentation skills exceeded expectations. What was once difficult to understand was now incredibly powerful and effective! In each case, there was an overall increase in confidence, clarity and personal responsibility for what they create through effective communication. This was not just true for my clients; this has been true for me as well.”Rachelle Aspan, IT Acceleration Director, HTC midtown