Rung 3 · Authority · 12 day streakRung 1 · Regulation · 5 day streak
Speak with Authority
You already have the English. Now sound like yourself in it.
ESL Mode is a lens over the whole of Mara. Every room you know stays. The breathing, the warm ups, Off the Record, the Practise Room, the Coaching Room and the Programme are all here, each tuned for how you perform in a second language. On top sits a set of trainings built only for you.
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German Mode
Every room tuned for the blunt versus weak tightrope. Keep your clarity, add warmth and headline first structure, and decode Anglo indirectness.
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Spanish Mode
Every room tuned for the confidence gap. Regulate the nerves first, then carry your warmth and charisma into Anglo legible authority.
You reflect in your language. You perform in English. Switch language any time from the top bar.
Good morning, LukasBuenos días, Sofía
You are on Authority.You are on Regulation.
You sound clear and you get to the point. The work now is tone: decisive without landing as blunt, warm without sounding unsure.The English is already there. The work now is calming the threat state so the real you comes through out loud.
Today's rep
Feedback that lands warmOpen with presence
Two minutes in the Practise Room. Judgment free.
This week
+18%Authority score
Up from 44 to 62 across 9 takes
Confidence
7.45.1Self rated, out of 10
Measured after each rep, not before
Your rooms today · tuned for ESL
Calm Down
Breathing
Settle the body before you speak. The base of the ladder.
Two minutes
Rehearse
Warm Up
Show up with the words already in your mouth.
Ten minutes
Rehearse
The Practise Room
Deliver a take. Scored live on six dimensions.
Run it again
Signature exercise
The English Performance Ladder
One message, six increasingly difficult ways. Your English and your state scored apart.
Deliver a take to camera, scored live on six dimensions by Mara, then run it again until it lands. The full Practise Room, tuned for how you perform in a second language.
Suggested prompts
Pick one to have in mind, or bring your own.
Private · Off the Record
Nothing leaves this room.
The one place you can speak German. Vent, think aloud, ask why a phrase felt wrong. Mara replies in German. Every rep still happens in English.The one place you can speak Spanish. Vent, think aloud, ask why a phrase felt wrong. Mara replies in Spanish. Every rep still happens in English.
How to use this room
Pick what is on your mind, then speak or type in your own language. Mara reflects in your language and hands you the English line to take into the Practise Room. Nothing here is saved, scored, or shared.
What is on your mind?
Mara replies in
Why bilingual
Reflecting in your first language lowers the threat state and lets the insight land. Think where you are safe. Perform where it counts.
One to One · The Coaching Room
The thing you are actually working on.
Executive coaching on the real moment ahead of you, in the language you have to perform in.
Mara
What is the moment you are worried about this week? Tell me in whichever language is easier, and we will build the English for it together.
Rehearse · Before the Moment
Ten minutes · warm up the state.
Before the board meeting Thursday. Regulate the body, then rehearse your opening line out loud until it is in your mouth.Before the investor call Thursday. Regulate the body, then rehearse your opening line out loud until it is in your mouth.
Step 1
Settle
Two minutes of breathing to drop the threat state.
Step 2
Voice
Open the range so you do not land flat under nerves.
Step 3
The line
Rehearse: "We are on track on scope and budget. Here is the timeline."Rehearse: "Growth looks flat on the surface. Underneath, the pipeline tripled."
Calm Down · Breathing
Settle the body. First.
Breathing for stress, anxiety and grounding. This is rung one, Regulation. When the threat state drops, the English you already have comes back.
In for four. Hold for four. Out for six.
Follow the orb. Let the out breath be the longest.
Why it comes first
Speaking anxiety compounds in a second language. Regulate, and your natural clarity and authority return on their own.Speaking anxiety compounds in a second language. Regulate, and your natural warmth and charisma return on their own.
Performance Ladder
Your performance mirror.
Every rated session across the tools, aggregated into your dimensions, level and next move.
Executive Translation
Say it the way it lands.
Record how you would naturally say it, get the executive version and the gap, then record the executive version for delivery coaching.
Authority Upgrade
Build the authority register.
A progressive drill. Five prompts at your level, each recorded, rated and coached.
Tone Calibrator
Clear, not cold.
Paste anything you write or say. Mara calibrates the register, shows you exactly what changed and why, then lets you rehearse it out loud.
Cultural Awareness Coach
What they say. What they mean.
Live roleplay across US, UK, EU and German rooms. Mara plays the counterpart in real time, then steps out to coach how you landed.
Hold the Floor
Hold and reclaim the floor.
Mara plays a meeting participant who tries to interrupt. Hold the floor, re-enter, and land your point.
Pressure Roleplay
Same scenario. Measure the change.
Twelve fixed high pressure scenarios you can replay over time to see your scores move on identical material.
Meeting Coach
Before and after the room.
Get a preparation brief before a real meeting, or debrief on camera after one.
The Programme · the full arc
Thirty sessions. One arc.
The Programme is the spine of the work: the full ICOP arc across four stages. It lives in your main Mara space, where your sessions and progress are held, and every rep still happens in English. Open it to begin or pick up where you left off.
The four stages
Stage I
Identify
Name the block that holds your English back when the moment matters.
Stage II
Clear
Regulate the threat state and reframe it at the level it was formed.
Stage III
Presence
Build authority through voice, body and the way you hold the room.
Stage IV
Maintain
Install a protocol you own, then keep going with unlimited sessions.
Courses · behind one door
Go deeper, on your own time.
Short focused courses you can take alongside the Programme. Built for the second language leader. Each opens a module of Command English, the full seventy lesson course.
The full programme
Command English
Performance communication for technical leaders working in English. Fourteen modules, seventy five minute lessons, taught by Mara: from the performance gap and the nervous system, through bottom line first, authority, warmth and meetings, to pitching, high stakes pressure and leading.
70 lessons · 14 modules · Open the course
Module
Presenting in English
Getting above the slides, opening strong, the presenting voice, and questions from the room.
5 lessons · in Command English
Module
Persuasion and influence
Storytelling, the human frame on data, and revealing the personal stake.
5 lessons · in Command English
Module
Authority without harshness
Direct without friction: disagreeing, difficult feedback, and the difficult conversation.
5 lessons · in Command English
Module
Leading in English
Vision language, motivating language, and the complete leadership communication.
5 lessons · in Command English
Module
The investor pitch
The hook, the compression, making the ask, and holding conviction under challenge.
5 lessons · in Command English
Module
Small talk as infrastructure
Understatement, the knowing aside, and being interesting informally.
5 lessons · in Command English
Video Library
Watch, then practise.
Short films from Jade on the ideas behind the method. Each one points you to a room.
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Why this is not a language problem
4 min · Foundations
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The blunt versus weak tightropeFrom tentative to decisive
6 min · Authority
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Regulating the threat state before you speak
5 min · Regulation
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Decoding what Anglo colleagues really mean
7 min · Cultural intelligence
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Holding the floor without raising your voice
5 min · Presence
Your Journal
What you want to remember.
Notes from your sessions: the lines that landed, the moments to work on, anything Mara said worth keeping. Private to you.