training
PRESENTATION SKILLS TRAINING
Audiences are inspired by people, not PowerPoint. They can only believe and trust in you, not your slides. So I will raise your performance to enable you to engage your audience, take them with you and remember what you’ve said. I use journalistic techniques and elements of psychology and theatre to give you a sound skill set for preparing memorable speeches.
Topics covered:
- a journalistic approach to structuring messages
- preparation tools including mind maps
- body language, voice and professional image workshop
- handling Q& A using media training techniques
- focusing the mind and controlling nerves
- appearing relaxed and confident
- individual coaching to enhance your personal performance skills
“energy, flair, depth of knowledge – we were carried away by the trainer’s enthusiasm” “I can’t believe how much I’ve achieved” “inspirational”
Recent clients: Crystal Business; Media First; Insurance Market Conferences; Lloyd’s Managing Agencies & Brokers; Home Office; Business Link; Clifford Chance; One Account; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; BT; Greenwich University; the Law Society; BDO Stoy Hayward; Barlow Lyde & Gilbert; Compass; Merrill Lynch.
MEDIA TRAINING
Retained media consultant and trainer:
Media consultant on medical side of Bill Gates’ worldwide programme to vaccinate the poor (ADVAC - since 2001)
Public health doctors in Germany (FETPs) and the Caribbean (CAREC) and throughout the E.U. (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training) (since 1995)
The Health Protection Agency executive team.
Other clients include:
- Olympic committee in Greece 2004 – advisor for scientists and doctors re biological or chemical terrorist attacks;
- GlaxoSmithKline re patent expiry;
- Johnson & Johnson re research on contact lenses;
- Sainsbury’s;
- BAA;
- Inspire Training for the military and airline industry;
- Cambridge University;
- BT;
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
VOLUNTARY WORK
I am very happy to give presentation skills and image training to sixth formers at Lady Margaret School in Fulham; The Children’s Trust; Queen Elizabeth Foundation; professionals who have been granted political asylum in the UK (Timebank) and to disadvantaged young people via the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s Media Prospects programme.
My choice of epitaph comes from one of my students on the Media Prospects programme: “That woman changed my life”. I’m quite happy with that.