Training and coaching that helps leaders and professionals speak with presence, clarity and conviction, and look forward to doing it. Based in London and Dubai, delivered worldwide in many languages.
We teach the skills of public speaking thoroughly: body language, voice, structure, storytelling and handling questions. Skills are the foundation, and what makes the difference is who you are when you use them. Two speakers with the same technique can have very different effects on a room, and audiences trust the one who feels real. So we build the most effective version of each person, with their own style, personality and even their quirks, and help every one of them look forward to their next talk.
Our method draws on psychology, neuroscience and nervous system self-regulation, the performance psychology of sport, and the voice work of theatre: disciplines with real science behind them, applied to how people show up and speak. We say plainly which popular tips do not hold up, and we never teach them.
We are a specialist communication company, so we teach public speaking in service of your organisation: its messages, its reputation and its goals. The content side of every course draws on our work in corporate communication and the media.
Short, frequent practice runs are filmed and replayed with a coach. The first is an easy, friendly baseline; later runs go where each person needs them most, and difficulty rises gently through the day.
Participants work on talks they will actually give, so they leave with a stronger version of a real presentation as well as stronger skills.
What good body language looks like, why it matters to an audience and how to get there naturally.
A voice that carries and a way of speaking that sounds like you on a good day.
Rehearsal that works, and practical routines athletes and performers use before they go on.
Speaking with the room, reading it and adapting as you go.
The change you want, the one message your audience should leave with, and the structure, stories and proof that carry it.
A full toolkit for difficult questions, shared with our media training.
Choosing stories that serve your message and telling them well.
Principles for visuals that support the speaker and keep the audience with you.
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills. Two days in a small group, face to face in London and Dubai or live online. For individuals and small groups.
A course designed for your team, in your offices or online, anywhere in the world. One or two days, with advanced and specialist modules added to suit your people.
Coaching for a leader with a keynote, a major presentation or a bigger role ahead, with all the time spent on what matters to that person.
We also run Advanced Public Speaking, Storytelling for Professional Impact and Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking.
Our coaches have spent their careers at the top of broadcasting, communication and performance, and they coach from inside the profession.
All our trainers are director-level professionals, active in the field, with at least 15 years’ experience.
Communication strategist and executive coach, Oxford psychologist and former Reuters foreign correspondent, with more than 25 years’ experience in 50 countries.
Former CNBC anchor and economist who coaches chief executives and ministers.
Communication strategist, playwright and keynote speaker; clients include the European Central Bank and Novartis.
Executive presence coach with more than 15 years’ experience across Europe, the United States and Asia.
BBC broadcast journalist and presenter, who trains chief executives to speak with impact.
ICF-certified executive coach with more than 20 years’ international communication experience.
Senior executive coach (ICF PCC) specialising in executive presence, with more than 15 years’ experience.
Every participant leaves with their own pre-speaking routine, built from the tools we practise together, and with structures that make planning a talk quicker and easier. Most of all, people leave looking forward to speaking. They enjoy it more than they did, and they welcome the next challenge.
We trained more than 30 Samsung staff from sales, marketing, engineering and customer service in five courses in little more than a year, from filmed presentation and pitching to an advanced programme on influencing an audience.
We coached the general manager of one of Sony’s regional businesses one to one, after the business had placed a member of its team on our intensive media relations seminar.
We coached two of HSBC’s most senior executives one to one in public speaking and presentation: the chief executive of one of its banks and that bank’s head of retail banking and wealth management.
We trained 16 of Maserati’s people in public speaking and presentation, in a year in which we also media trained its managing director and trained its communicators from 10 countries.
We ran a workshop in chairing, moderating and facilitating panel discussions for up to 25 staff of NATO’s Engagements Section, with practice built on a multinational seminar scenario written for the section.
We trained a team of the Bank’s banking supervision inspectors in presentation and public speaking in London with a BBC business presenter, and gave management an assessment of each inspector’s readiness to speak in public.
“I loved the practical part of the course and how we learnt by doing. Making our own presentation and then watching the recordings had a higher impact on what are the do’s and don’ts.”Corina Coman, Veeam
“The trainer was so professional, patient and gives attention to each member of the training. There was a lot of practical engagement, and the small group allowed more interaction.”Nathalie Jaber
“Engaging, fun and most interesting, educated me on all the relevant areas and listened to my concerns.”A.N.
We have coached prime ministers, ministers, royals and hundreds of CEOs and directors to speak in public.
Our coaches have spent their careers at the top of communication, and they coach from inside the profession.
We have done one thing, communication skills, and it shows in the room and in the results.
Our method draws on psychology, neuroscience and the performance psychology of sport, and we say plainly which popular tips do not hold up.
Every participant is assessed before and after against a best-practice framework, with a report for the individual and one for management.
We build the most effective version of each person, and people leave looking forward to speaking.
Tell us who you want to train and what is coming up for them. We will suggest a course or a programme and send a proposal.
