Public Speaking + Performance Coaching
Christopher "CJ" Emerson helps executives, founders, sales teams, and leaders command rooms, sharpen narrative, and perform when the stakes are visible. Tip-of-the-spear communication from a working performer, actor, voice artist, and TEDx speaker.
Make the room feel the message.
Keynotes, talks, pitch prep, and high-performance communication coaching.
Keynote energy
Rooms, stages, offsites, and conference audiences.
High-stakes coaching
Founder pitches, executive presence, launches, and camera work.
TEDxMcGill
Talk on legacy, creativity, and human impact.
20+ years
On stage, on camera, in studios, and inside high-pressure productions.
200+ campaigns
Commercial, game, narration, promo, and enterprise performance work.
TEDx Proof
CJ's TEDxMcGill talk, "How to live forever and change the world | Christopher Emerson | TEDxMcGill," is the clean proof point: he can hold a live room, frame an idea, and make a high-concept message feel human. That same discipline powers the keynote and coaching work.
Watch on YouTubeTwo Ways to Work
Some buyers need CJ on the stage. Some need CJ behind the scenes before the stage. The best engagements often use both.
For rooms that need energy, edge, and a clean point of view.
CJ brings the performer, director, and storyteller lens to business audiences: how to hold attention, move a room, and make ideas feel inevitable.
For leaders who need the message to land under pressure.
A direct coaching lane for executives, founders, sales teams, and operators preparing for high-stakes rooms, cameras, microphones, and launches.
B2B Outcomes
This is not motivational filler. It is performance architecture for people whose ideas, offers, and reputations need to survive contact with an audience.
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Command the room without performing a fake version of yourself.
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Sharpen narrative so complex ideas become clear, memorable, and useful.
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Build executive presence that survives pressure, silence, and scrutiny.
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Turn product, brand, or founder stories into business audience momentum.
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Prepare for keynotes, pitches, panels, podcasts, sales rooms, and launches.
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Use voice, timing, posture, and stakes so the message actually lands.
Signature Topics
CJ can shape the final topic around the room: executive offsite, sales event, product launch, innovation summit, brand gathering, leadership retreat, or conference mainstage.
What live rooms, studios, sets, mocap, and high-stakes production teach leaders about attention, preparation, and recovery.
How to use voice and physical presence as business tools without drifting into theater-school theatrics.
A working performer's take on range, adaptation, and staying dangerous when the market changes under your feet.
Where synthetic output helps, where human performance still wins, and why trust still has a body, voice, and point of view.
A business-ready expansion of CJ's TEDx theme: legacy, useful work, and communicating ideas that outlast the room.
How to make a message feel concrete, commercial, and emotionally legible to decision-makers.
Coaching Programs
Coaching is scoped around the room, timeline, format, and risk. The objective is not polish for polish's sake. It is clarity, command, and control when the room is live.
Presence, voice, pacing, stakes, and delivery for leaders who need to look calm while the room is deciding.
A focused sprint for a keynote, investor pitch, product launch, demo day, board meeting, or flagship sales moment.
Narrative, delivery, and performance work for sales teams, founder teams, leadership groups, and brand teams.
Performance tuning for webinars, recorded thought leadership, podcast appearances, remote pitches, and on-camera authority.
Stage, camera, mic, script, audience.
The performance background is not decorative. It is the operating system.
Why CJ
CJ is not approaching speaking as a slide-deck personality. His background spans theatre, film, TV, Hollywood production, voiceover, mocap, narration, brand campaigns, and live stages. He understands the mechanics behind confidence.
Amsterdam-based, CJ also coaches English-language performance for Dutch film, TV, and corporate productions.
Stage work since childhood, from theatre and live performance to TV, film, and production rooms.
Voiceover and acting career across commercials, games, animation, narration, promo, and enterprise storytelling.
Understands scripts, timing, subtext, audience psychology, camera pressure, microphone technique, and live-room energy.
Credits and campaign proof include The Last of Us, Resident Evil 6, Coca-Cola, Apple, Disney, and 200+ campaigns.
FAQ
Both. CJ delivers keynotes and talks for conferences and company events, and coaches executives, founders, and teams 1:1 or in workshops. Many engagements use both — a talk plus prep for the leaders in the room.
Executives, founders, sales teams, and leaders preparing for high-stakes rooms — keynotes, investor pitches, demo days, board meetings, panels, podcasts, webinars, and launches.
He is a working performer, not a slide-deck personality — 20+ years across stage, film, TV, studios, and a TEDx talk. He coaches the mechanics of presence, voice, timing, and recovery from real performance experience.
Fees are custom-quoted based on the format, audience, travel, and scope — a keynote, a coaching sprint, or a team workshop. Share the event and CJ replies with a practical next step.
Yes. CJ shapes the topic and the coaching around your room — offsite, sales kickoff, product launch, leadership retreat, innovation summit, or conference mainstage.
Book Speaking or Coaching
Share the event, audience, stakes, format, timeline, and whether you need a keynote, coaching engagement, team workshop, or a custom blend.