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About Ovient, Inc.
Welcome to the home of Communication Awesomeness®. Since 2006, we have helped thousands of people reach their professional goals through better communication.
We help professionals communicate powerfully, communicate publicly, communicate clearly, communicate collaboratively, and communicate accurately in English though individual coaching and team training programs.
We have trained executives, managers, engineers, and thousands of other professionals at Silicon Valley’s elite companies. We’ve worked with celebrities, TV personalities, physicians, and rising stars. We’ve supported individuals from more than 30 different countries. We regularly provide training and consulting services to Startups, Fortune 500, and Global 500 companies, including major companies in the IT, professional services, and healthcare industries. See a few of our recent projects here.
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Team
Blythe J. Musteric
Co-Founder, CEO, and Executive Coach
Blythe coaches her clients to succeed in ways they never thought possible. Her clients credit her with transforming their teams, supercharging their careers, and helping them accomplish their most challenging goals. She has worked with individuals and teams from more than 100 companies, helping them communicate more strategically, more powerfully, and more effectively. She has logged more than 15,000 hours of coaching and training with thousands of professionals across the US, Europe, and Asia. Her clients have included technology executives, thought leaders, and celebrities among many others.
Blythe’s individual and executive coaching involves helping her clients build awareness, expand their strategic and empathic communication skill sets, and execute over the long term through the use of a personal communication playbook. In addition, she regularly leads public speaking and presentation workshops for engineers, power and confidence workshops for women-in-tech organizations, and multicultural communication training for Silicon Valley technology teams.
She’s co-written more than 20 courses and seminars on professional communication and is the co-author of two books (Communication Snacks: 52 Bite-sized Communication Tips for the Busy Professional and The Accent Diet). She is also the producer and co-host of the popular Communication Snacks® Podcast.
Blythe has a passion for helping emerging professionals and emerging leaders find their footing, and is a regular guest speaker for student programs at San Francisco State University and Claremont McKenna College, as well as the occasional MBA program.
You’ll often find Blythe behind the scenes helping others prep for speaking engagements, major product presentations, and an occasional news and reality show, but you can also hear her voiceover work in product and marketing videos for startups and major tech companies.
When not talking about communication, Blythe loves to talk about fitness (mostly running and yoga), reading (mostly detective fiction and Beat poetry), and wine (mostly Napa cabs). She also occasionally picks up her ukulele.
Marc J. Musteric
Co-Founder, COO, and Executive Coach
Marc has helped clients stand out, move up, and win at the highest levels of business and technology for more than 15 years. Focusing on communication strategy, public speaking, and clarity of message, Marc has prepped and coached celebrity and executive clients for keynote presentations at major conferences; coached CEOs, founders, executives, and major teams at Silicon Valley Tech companies, including Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies; advised and coached teams before major product announcements on stage before audiences of thousands; and led seminars in presentations and public speaking for client companies across the US, training thousands of participants in Ovient’s 5-Step Presentation™ methodology.
Marc is an expert in the unique communication challenges faced by expat executives living and working in the US and has a strong track record of helping these executives improve communication, build rapport, and better navigate challenging situations. Marc has led workshops for major universities including Claremont McKenna College, Stanford University, and Ball State University. He has been invited multiple times as a guest speaker for the Plug and Play Tech Center’s program for international entrepreneurs and served as an advisor to the Fukuoka Prefectural Government (Japan) Office for Overseas Commerce in America for more than 16 years.
Marc has written or co-written more than 20 courses and seminars on professional communication. He is the co-author of Communication Snacks: 52 Bite-sized Communication Tips for the Busy Professional and the co-author and co-host of the popular Communication Snacks® Podcast.
Before co-founding Ovient in 2006, Marc worked in consulting and international relations, supporting international companies seeking to build a market presence in the U.S. Marc speaks Japanese, loves art and design, and spends most of his time these days trying to keep his book and whiskey collections out of the background of his Zoom calls.
Rachel Lancaster
Director of Special Programming and Executive Language Coach
Rachel has built a reputation as a talented coach and instructor over her 10+ years of experience. Since earning her M.A. in TESOL in 2009, Rachel has taught at colleges and universities in the Midwest, Seattle, and the Bay Area, and has coached business and tech professionals in presentation, communication, editing, and language skills. Rachel is passionate about helping her clients express themselves clearly, concisely, and confidently. She has worked with a range of clients that spans C-suite tech execs to science fiction writers, psychologists to aerospace engineers. She attributes her successful outcomes to the authentic relationships she builds with her clients so they can be coached out of their comfort zones, leading to an improvement in their skill and confidence levels in order to achieve their future business goals. Rachel has lived in Mexico, the UK, and Germany, and enjoys traveling internationally whenever she can. She spends her spare time improving her Spanish language skills, visiting the Monterey Peninsula, and practicing photography.
Address and Phone
Ovient Silicon Valley Office
(Located inside Plug & Play)
440 N. Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale, California 94085
- Phone: 650-294-8450
- Email: info [at] ovient.com
Please call for an appointment before visiting.
Parking is free. Additional parking is available in the rear of the building.