milly ellis

Milly Ellis, founder and CEO of BE HEARD, started the company in 2004. Since then, she has worked with, amongst others, Banks, British Airways, Pizza Express, Subway, Yum, Pret a Manger, Poundland and The White Cube. Other corporate clients include the Financial Conduct Authority, Glaxo Smith Kline, Woodmeadow Trust and GEFCO France. She has also helped editors at Conde Nast, The Evening Standard, and artists, designers, politicians, poets, barristers, prisoners.

In the theatrical world, Milly has worked with, to mention but a few; Sir John Gielgud, Robert Downey Junior, Sir Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, Nicholas Cage, Mark Rylance and Juliette Binoche.

Other clients have included Sir Anthony Dowell, Darcey Bussell, Diamond Dance, Akram Khan, Anish Kapoor, Mara Galeazzi, Hanif Kureishi and John Hegley.

In television, Milly worked on BBC Two HD. Heyday Films. ‘Page 8’ Sky’s Fortitude, Pathé; BBC Films and Bend It Films, The Viceroy House, HBO. BBC1 The Casual Vacancy KBO, Churchill’s Secret, Telluride, Judy, with Sir Michael Gambon and Assassins Anonymous, and Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix, The Crown with Suki Waterhouse.

BE HEARD is run by a small, but dedicated team in Milly Ellis herself and Megan Forbes Adam, supporting in all things behind the scenes and administration. Milly also outsources industry experts to enhance client specific development (particularly for ‘her artists’), such as actors, writers, directors, dancers, choreographers and musicians.

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Do you hate public speaking? Do the words ‘And now please welcome to the stage….’ followed by your name send a chill down your spine, even make you feel sick? If so, you’re in good company. Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln both suffered from stage fright. Judi Dench, Andrea Bocelli, Stephen Fry and Rihanna still do. In fact, stage fright is so widespread as to be universal. As Mark Twain put it: ‘There are only two types of speakers in the world. One: the nervous and Two: Liars.’

These global figures have not succeeded by magically waking up one day without fear. They use techniques to combat it.

Using a combination of breathing exercises, vocal methods and approach to text evolved over many years; I have developed a powerful way to help people overcome the fear of public speaking and therefore deliver their message effectively and with panache.