Individual Services
1:1 Executive training
Success at most jobs requires the ability to speak clearly, effectively, authoritatively, and succinctly in meetings and presentations. This skill has nothing to do with “learning to be confident” and everything to do with reading your audience and organizing your thoughts. In a very few hours, I’ll teach you the art of focusing and explaining your ideas vividly and precisely, in clear, precise bullets, without rambling or oversharing. You will know the pleasure of becoming the sharpest, most authoritative person in the room.
Pitch & presentation help
Your success as an employee or as an entrepreneur often depends on your skill at pitching & presenting. Save yourself days of anxiety and wasted time going around in circles and avoid the regret of failed or mediocre presentations. First, you’ll learn how to structure and present your ideas engagingly and appealingly, instead of prattling on in a boring, robotic manner. Next, you’ll learn how to organize them as a story (or stories), with vivid examples and visually memorable materials. Your voice, body, and delivery will become more authentic, commanding and persuasive as your story comes together and you practice a few times.
Speechwriting
Don’t get bogged down. Hire a professional speech writer with sterling credentials (New York Times magazine, New Yorker, others) to draft, organize, and hone your ideas, turning them into vivid stories that bring you and your message to life. Avoid the many rabbit holes of perfectionism and anxiety by rehearsing with an expert, attentive to the nuances of storytelling and public relations.
Meeting & interview prep
Facing a job interview? Performance- or compensation review? Knowing what to say (or not say) in key meetings can be worth many thousands of dollars, years of career advancement, and immeasurable degrees of emotional satisfaction. Preparation makes all the difference. Stop winging it, hoping you’ll express yourself perfectly; it seldom works. Plan your thoughts, stories, examples and remarks in advance and rehearse your delivery to get the results you deserve. Average time required: 3 hours.
The average 1:1 client needs my help for 4-5 hours (except for speechwriting).
I’ll teach you simple, practical, ancient critical thinking techniques for distilling and focusing your message to achieve maximum relevance and connection with your audience. I’ll show you how to organize and construct your message using vivid words, ideas, examples, stories, and visuals. Finally, I’ll help you rehearse until your voice, body, and ideas are aligned and your message flows effectively and authentically, with a confidence you’ve never felt before.
Unlike many coaches, I spend no time on diagnosis. I have no hard-to-remember rubric. My goal is to help you as fast as humanly possible and support you every step of the way till you achieve your goal.
Whether you’re looking to polish your executive presence, improve your presentation-, storytelling-, persuasive communication skills, or to overcome anxiety, my 1:1 training will get you there. More than that, it will give you a toolkit you will use for the rest of your life to prepare for any kind of meeting or presentation.