Hello, I'm Elizabeth de Moraes.
M.A., M.F.A. | Global Presence & Personal Branding Strategist | TEDx Speaker | International Speaker
You have done everything right. You have invested in the coaching, the courses, the media training. You are talented, credentialed, and prepared. And yet you still walk into rooms and feel like you are performing a version of yourself rather than inhabiting it. You watch others — sometimes less qualified — receive the stages, the clients, and the recognition you have been working toward. And you cannot quite name why.
My work transforms how you are experienced — so you move from overlooked to chosen, trusted, and promoted as the leader you already are.
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Where It All Began
I Learned Presence Before I Had a Word for It.
I have been dancing for 50 years, more than 20 of them professionally. Dance was my first language of presence. Long before I could articulate what it meant to command a room, I was training my body to do it: learning how breath shapes courage, how stillness draws attention, how the body speaks before words arrive.
That training gave me a lens that most coaches simply do not have. I can see what is happening in the body before it becomes a pattern, and I know how to change it from the inside out.
The body is the first message.
Movement has always been my first language of presence.
13 Countries. Lived In. Not Visited.
Across North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, I did not just work. I built a life. I navigated different languages, cultural codes, and the invisible signals of trust that shift from room to room and border to border.
That lived cross-cultural fluency is why my clients can walk into any room — a boardroom in Dubai, a stage in Malta, a media appearance in New York — and command it. Presence that only works in one culture is not presence. It is performance.
Authority that translates is authority that lasts.
Why This Work Matters Now More Than Ever
In a world overflowing with information but starving for influence, I help leaders develop the presence that makes people listen.
AI can replicate language, tone, and polished content in seconds. What it cannot replicate is physical presence, authentic energy, and the embodied authority that makes people lean in before you speak. That is the last remaining competitive moat — and it is exactly what my background as a professional international performer gives me the lens to develop.
Brilliant leaders were being underestimated — not because they lacked intelligence or credibility, but because their presence was not matching the power of their ideas. That became my work.
A Life Lived Across Continents
Presence That Translates Across Every Room
Lived In. Not Just Visited.
A Life Built Across the World
Thirteen countries. Four continents. Not a travel résumé, a lived education in how culture, communication, and presence shift from room to room and border to border.
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"Presence that only works in one culture is not presence. It is performance."
TEDx: where presence becomes the message. Watch the full talk
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Commanding the room — EmpowerHer
From Performing to Presenting
My journey from international dance stages to speaking platforms and camera — where presence and power flow through both movement and voice.
Behind the Scenes & On Camera
From film sets to television appearances — every lens, every room.
Filming with Les Brown in his home.
On set for a commercial.
On the Netflix Queer Eye set with Tan France and Karamo Brown.
I don’t teach leaders to be someone else. I guide them home to the authority they already possess — so they become stronger communicators and undeniable forces in every room they enter.
Elizabeth de Moraes — M.A., M.F.A., Global Presence & Personal Branding Strategist
Ready to Begin?
Let us transform your presence into your most powerful advantage — so you can communicate better, connect more powerfully with whomever you speak to, and make the impact you were put here to make. Because when your presence is fully embodied, you do not just lead. You empower others to take action.