Presence isn't
explained.
It's trained.
Executive presence training, built the way elite performers prepare — the breath, body and timing that let conductors, actors and opera singers deliver under pressure, with no second take.
Insight is not skill.
Traditional development gives you insight. You understand your patterns — then walk into the next board meeting and your body does exactly what it did before.
A lecture can be brilliant and still leave everything as it was: two weeks later, nothing has changed in how you enter a room, hold a silence, or handle pressure — because understanding doesn't retrain the body. Skill is different. Skill is trained — physically, on the situations you actually face.
Respiro e Movimento®
I train performing artists — conductors, actors, opera singers, instrumentalists — whose career depends on the two seconds after they walk on stage, with no second take and an audience that decides instantly.
What I train with them is exactly what executives need and almost never train: breath under pressure, physical authority, vocal presence, timing. Respiro e Movimento® brings that work into the boardroom. In practice, this is the non-verbal layer of leadership — posture, gaze, voice, timing — trained the way performers train it, not explained. Every session produces something you can observe in your next meeting — not something to think about.
Presence, when it counts.
Two ways to work together — one for a single decisive moment, one for a change in presence others can see.
Executive Sparring
One moment that can't go wrong — the board presentation, the negotiation, the speech. We prepare the instrument that delivers it, and rehearse the moment itself.
- One intensive session, 90 minutes
- Breath, posture and voice applied to your exact situation
- Live rehearsal of the moment — not talk about it
- A written protocol you keep
You walk in steady, hold the room, and let pressure work for you instead of against you.
Single session Fee shared in the introductory call.
Book an introductory callThe Executive Presence Programme
For leaders at a moment that raises the stakes — a new mandate, public visibility, fundraising. A structural change in presence over three months, built on the real situations in your calendar.
- Ten sessions over three months, in person or online
- A diagnostic of where presence is lost: meetings, speaking, conflict
- Practice applied to real moments, on site where it counts
- Priority access between sessions, and a consolidation session at the close
Presence stops being something you summon for the big meeting and becomes how you enter every room.
By proposal Tailored in the introductory call.
Book an introductory callWhat changes, in their words.
Working with Giuseppe has profoundly changed the way I lead. It reconnects you with your intention, your breath, your presence — and lets you lead with more clarity and impact.
He teaches you to communicate with less effort, more ease and better results — in conversations, meetings or negotiations. The results are immediate and lasting.
His attentive guidance gave me tools that significantly boosted my confidence. He truly listens and understands every situation.
Trusted by world-class performers.
Giuseppe Ravì
Giuseppe Ravì trains world-class performers and senior executives. Based in Vienna, he is the founder of Respiro e Movimento®, on the faculty of mdw Vienna and Hanns Eisler Berlin, a guest at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and co-director of the Purser and Ravì Conducting Academy.
His clients range from conductors, actors, opera singers and instrumentalists to executives and founders.
Questions leaders ask.
No. It is skills training — not psychotherapy, psychological counselling or life counselling. We work on observable skill — breath, posture, voice, timing — applied to the real situations in your calendar. There is no introspection for its own sake.
No — and the difference matters. Body language courses teach you signals to display: stand like this, gesture like that. The result reads as technique. I train the instrument that produces the signal — breath, posture, voice under pressure — so what the room reads is real. Your non-verbal communication improves because the body changes, not because you are managing it.
A communication coach works on what you say. I work on the instrument that delivers it: the body and breath under pressure. Because the change is physical, it holds when the stakes rise.
Yes. Breath, voice and presence train well over video, and many clients work entirely online, worldwide. In person — in Vienna or on site with you — when the situation calls for it.
English or Italian. For German-speaking leaders this rarely matters in practice: the high-stakes moments we prepare — investor calls, international boards, media — usually happen in English anyway. And because the training is physical — breath, posture, voice, timing — what you build carries into every language you lead in, German included.
We take a real moment you're facing and rehearse it, live. You leave with something you can use in your next meeting and a written protocol.
Completely. Discretion is the default, and senior clients' identities are never disclosed.
Buying for a leadership team, or sponsoring a leader who carries the most weight? There's a dedicated track — from a half-day Executive Presence workshop to a programme that builds the same capability across the team.
Train it.
A 30-minute conversation to understand your situation. No slides, no pitch.
Privacy first. Your trust equals maximum discretion.