Public speaking training for your organisation
Programmes built for your people, your messages and the talks they actually give. Delivered at your offices, at a venue of your choice or live online, anywhere in the world, in many languages.
Accredited by BAC, CPD, KHDA and Pearson, with internationally recognised certification · Senior coaches · 25 years of specialist training
Three ways we work with organisations
Group training
A course for your team, built on our standard public speaking course and adapted to your people. One or two days: two days give the full course, with four filmed practice runs per person. Advanced and specialist modules can be added to either.
One-to-one coaching
Coaching for a leader with a keynote, a major presentation or a bigger role ahead. Every minute goes on what matters to that person, with many more rounds of practice and feedback than a group can give.
Presentation consulting
When the content or the visuals are letting a speaker down, our consultants help build the presentation itself: messages and positioning, structure and narrative, scripting, slides and information design. We can join the team for the whole project or advise at the start and polish at the end, and we can coach the presenters through the rehearsals.
How in-house training works
1
Tell us what you need
A 30-minute call is usually enough. We ask who will be trained, what they speak about and what you want to be different afterwards.
2
We send a proposal
Within a few days you receive a written proposal: the programme, the coaches, the format and the fee. It starts from our standard course, with any advanced or specialist modules your people need.
3
We build the programme
Once you confirm, we build the day around your people. Participants bring talks they will actually give, so the training improves a real presentation as well as their skills. Every coach is briefed before day one.
4
We deliver and report
On site anywhere in the world or live online, in many languages. Short practice runs are filmed and replayed with a coach, and every participant is coached individually. Afterwards you receive a written report on each person and on the team, with recommendations for next steps.
What we can include
Every programme draws on one method and one library of modules, so whatever we build for you is consistent, tested and taught the same way by every ISOC coach.
The core course
- Authentic presence
- Body language
- Preparation and performance psychology
- Pre-speaking routines
- Owning the room
- Connecting with your audience
- Managing nerves
- Language and voice
- Energy and confidence
- Content and messages
- Structure and information architecture
- Rehearsal and preparation
- Slides and visual support
Advanced public speaking
- Executive presence
- Storytelling
- Handling difficult questions
- Panel discussions
Specialist modules
- Moderating events and chairing meetings
- Communicating complex and technical ideas
- Pitching
- Speeches and keynotes
- Presenting online and on camera
- Delivering from scripts and notes
- Technical practicalities, from microphones to autocue
Our one-day course
Our one-day course gives your team the core of our flagship public speaking course, each topic in its short form, with three filmed practice runs per person on talks they will actually give.
How you come across
- Authentic presence
- Body language
- Owning the room
- Connecting with your audience
Before you speak
- Preparation and performance psychology
- Pre-speaking routines
- Managing nerves
- Rehearsal and preparation
What you say
- Content and messages
- Structure and information architecture
- Language and voice
The two-day course gives every topic more time and adds a fourth practice run, plus modules on energy and confidence and on slides.
For senior leaders
For a senior team we customise and adapt the delivery thoroughly: less time on the basics and more on presence and practice, with a senior coach who has worked with ministers and chief executives. Many senior leaders prefer one-to-one coaching, and we often combine the two.
Results you can see
People leave with their own pre-speaking routine, structures that make preparing a talk quicker, and the experience of several filmed runs, each one better than the last. Most of all, they leave looking forward to speaking. You receive a report on each person, so you can see the progress and plan what comes next.
Behind the scenes on presentations that mattered
Our consultants and coaches have worked on high-stakes presentations including the launch of an interplanetary space mission, a successful pitch to a head of state for approval of a $20 billion infrastructure project, and two successful pitches for multi-billion-dollar transport projects.