Jenn Krentz
Executive Communication Coach for Global Tech Founders and Leaders
You know your business. Now make sure every room knows it.
You know your product. You know your numbers. You know exactly why your company is going to work.
But knowing it and communicating it under pressure are different skills. In front of your team, your customers, your board, or an investor, the leaders who can do both are the ones who keep people pulling in the same direction.
I work with founders and executives at growing tech companies, many of them leading in English as an additional language, across Canada, the US, and Latin America. They’re navigating meetings, negotiations, and communication expectations that were never built for them.
They have something worth funding, worth buying, or worth following. They’re not going to let how they communicate it be the reason it doesn’t land.
Most Executive Coaching Fixes the Wrong Thing
More confidence tips. Better talking points. A tighter message. None of it solves the real problem.
Most communication coaching focuses on what to say. Lead with the outcome. Cut the filler. All useful, but none of it is the hard part.
The hard part is how it comes out under pressure: the pacing, the hesitation, the moment the room can feel someone reaching for a word instead of saying it. That’s not a script problem. It’s a delivery problem, and for a growing number of tech leaders, it’s also a language problem nobody’s trained for.
A sentence that’s technically correct in English can still land as smaller, less certain, or less confident than the person actually is. What reads as direct in one culture reads as abrupt in another. What reads as respect in one reads as distance in another.
Most executive coaches have never had to work at that layer, because most executive coaches have never taught language.
I have. That’s the difference.
Is This You?
1. Global Tech Founders and Executives: Your English is good. That’s not the problem. You sound like a different person in English than you do in your own language: smaller, less certain, less like the leader who built the company. You’re not missing fluency. You’re missing the unwritten rules of North American business and the delivery tools to sound like yourself in English.
2. Technical Founders Who Became CEO: You know the technology inside out. But now your job is explaining the business to people who don’t think like engineers: your team, your customers, your board. You either over-explain the architecture or undersell what it actually does. Nobody taught you how to translate technical depth into leadership language. That’s what I do.
3. New and Growing Leaders: Your role got bigger. Now you’re running meetings, giving demos, delegating, negotiating, and hiring. The skills that got you promoted aren’t the ones that make people follow you. That gap is fixable.
4. Founders Raising Seed or Series A: You have real traction and a deck that should be working, but you’re leaving meetings unsure what investors thought. It’s not your business. It’s how you’re communicating it under pressure.
5. Growing Leadership Teams: Your company has outgrown the founders. Your CTO, your Head of Sales, and your CEO are each describing the business slightly differently, and nobody’s job is to fix that. Whether your team needs individual coaching, group sessions, or both, this is about everyone communicating clearly and telling one consistent story.
Why Tech Leaders Work With Me
Most communication coaches focus on what to say. I focus on how it lands, including the language layer most coaches never touch.
My background in drama, language teaching, and nearly 20 years of learning and development means I hear all of it at once: your structure, your delivery, the cultural expectations, and your language. We work on it together, using my Mindset, Language, Performance Model.
Your grammar and pronunciation get corrected live, in every session, based on how you actually speak. With preparation before each session and follow-up after, every correction is tied to your real words and your real work.
And I don’t do pep talks. I build systems. You leave with templates, scripts, and resources built around your business, so the skills keep working after we’re done.
I’ve coached hundreds of professionals from 30+ countries. My clients have closed funding rounds, sold their companies, acquired others, and expanded across borders, all while working in their second language.
What My Clients Say
“I thought my English was strong, but Jenn pinpointed subtle habits that were undermining my credibility. She showed me exactly how to fix them while refining my pitch. Now I can speak about any part of my business clearly, confidently, and authentically.”-Seed-stage tech founder, Colombia
“Now, I have a great pitch, a strong deck, and most importantly, I can speak confidently about every part of my business... I was also pleasantly surprised that the strategies I learned with Jenn have helped me tremendously in other parts of my business, like client and board meetings.”-Series A founder, Brazil
“Participating in an English meeting was impossible for me to do before working with you. After just a few weeks of working with you, I was able to manage a meeting and share my requests.”-Tech founder, Canada
“When I started, my confidence was low. I was focused on my accent and grammar more than the quality of my content. Jenn changed that. The foundation she helped me build isn’t just a better pitch. It’s self-confidence and the right attitude to face a larger audience.”-First-time founder, US
“We got our first B2B contract in English, and have a few more lined up already!”-Tech founder, Quebec
“After completing the sessions, I feel tremendously comfortable having smooth conversations with investors and fellow founders about who I am, what we do, and why we’re doing it.” -Seed-stage founder, Colombia
Private 1:1 and Team Pitch Coaching
Executive Communication Academy
1:1 coaching for tech founders and executives leading in English
Three 12-week phases: Business Communication Foundations, Leadership Communication, and Executive Presence. Take one, two, or all three. Every program starts with an English assessment, and I’ll recommend where to begin. Available for individual leaders or multiple members of your team.
Pitch and investor communication coaching for founders raising Seed through Series A
Fundraising is not the time for generic pitch advice. Every program is customized around your raise: your story, your delivery, your investor conversations, and how you handle pressure in the room. Solo or with your co-founders.
Communication Training For Leadership Teams
Communication Training for Leadership Teams
Group workshops, cohorts, and retainers for growing tech teams
Your leadership team is brilliant. They’re just not always saying the same thing. I build training around shared narrative, executive presence, and cross-border communication for teams working in a second language.
Audits & Communication Services
Fast async support.
Not ready for coaching, or just need a second pair of eyes? Get expert feedback on your deck, your delivery, or your company's website and messaging, plus async audits for teams who need clarity but don't have time for coaching. Delivered on your timeline. No calls required.
Self-Study Playbooks
The investor psychology, the delivery guidance, and the pitch frameworks at your own pace.
Not ready for coaching yet? The playbooks give you the structure, the investor psychology, and the delivery guidance for every section of your pitch. Used by seed and Series A founders raising from North American investors.
Accelerator & Startup Communication Training
Get your cohort pitch-ready before demo day
Customized remote workshops covering investor pitch training, technical-to-investor translation, cross-cultural communication, and leadership development for founders scaling their teams. From 90-minute sessions to full-day intensives, built around your cohort's specific stage and challenges.
Common Questions from International Founders
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No. Many of my clients lead in English as an additional language, and that’s where my background makes the biggest difference. But I also work with technical founders and new leaders whose communication hasn’t caught up to their role.
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Yes. Executive Communication Academy is built for leading your company day to day: meetings, demos, feedback, negotiation, presentations, and hiring. Pitch coaching is for founders preparing to raise.
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The goal isn’t to sound like a native speaker. It’s to sound like yourself. The biggest shift usually isn’t your English. It’s getting the leader who built the company to show up, instead of the version that’s busy translating, overthinking every word, or trying to sound perfect.
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Accelerators focus on your business model. I focus on you: how you sound, how you handle pressure, and whether people trust what they’re hearing. Founders from YC, Latitud, Techstars, and other programs often come to me because their business is strong but their delivery isn’t landing.
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Yes. Team members can each do their own 1:1 Executive Communication Academy program, starting at the phase that fits their role. For co-founders preparing one pitch, there’s Team Cohort. For full leadership teams, there’s Communication Training for Leadership Teams, and Accelerator Training brings this to your whole cohort.