Personal Presentation Skills Training
If you want to engage your audience, turn dry material into dynamic performances, and bring out your true, authentic self and communicate purposefully, you need to know what to say (the message) and how to say it (the delivery) to inspire confidence.
If you have a presentation on the calendar and you feel like…
- Your heart is racing
- Your hands are sweaty
- You want to throw up
or when you’re delivering your presentation, you feel like...
- Your messages are landing like an albatross
- Your clutching the podium like a life preserver
- Your audience is yawning, nodding like zombies, or constantly checking their phones
- You feel like you’re under a heat lamp during the Q&A
- Your audience is not buying into what you are saying.
I can help!
The communication toolbox
Electric Presence Core
- Increase body language awareness, build leadership presence through posture, vocal dynamics, and gestures, and align them with intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Organize messages to take audiences on a journey and increase stickiness for retention.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu)
- Increase comfort in responding to unprepared moments by quickly organizing thoughts and communicating with ease.
Q&A The Spokesperson Way
- Confidently answer your audience’s most challenging questions, stay on message, and manage the audience to it doesn’t manage you.
Final Simulation
- Solidify learning and understanding by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
The Workshops
Online courses and in-person virtual workshops
Electric Presence Core
In Person
4 hours
Day 1: 3 hours | Electric Presence Core
Day 2: 1 hour | Simulation
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
- Final Simulation to encourage retention by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
Powerful Presentations
In Person
8 hours
Day 1: 3 hours | Electric Presence Core
Day 2: 1 hour | Simulation
Day 3: 90 Minutes | Memorable Messaging + Simulation
Day 4: 90 Minutes | Storytelling + Simulation
Day 5: 1 Hour | Final Simulation
Electric Presence Core
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Take audiences on a journey using a logical presentation flow.
- Effectively share information by organizing for affect.
- Increase message retention and stickiness using rhetorical tools and spokesperson best practices.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Final Simulation
- Solidify learning and understanding by applying communication tools to a real world scenario.
Communicate Like a CEO
In Person
11 hours
Day 1: 3 hours | Electric Presence Core
Day 2: 1 hour | Simulation
Day 3: 90 Minutes | Memorable Messaging + Simulation
Day 4: 90 Minutes | Storytelling + Simulation
Day 5: 90 Minutes | Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu) + Simulation
Day 6: 90 Minutes | Q&A The Spokesperson Way + Simulation
Day 7: 1 Hour | Final Simulation
Electric Presence Core
- Increase nonverbal body language awareness.
- Connect with audiences through open leadership posture and presence.
- Persuade using vocal dynamics, including pace, pause, and pitch.
- Reinforce messages using effective, expansive gestures.
- Communicate purposefully by aligning voice, body, and gestures behind a strong intention to inspire audiences to take action.
Memorable Messaging
- Take audiences on a journey using a logical presentation flow.
- Effectively share information by organizing for affect.
- Increase message retention and stickiness using rhetorical tools and spokesperson best practices.
Compelling Storytelling
- Forge connections, build trust, and convey values using the most powerful communication tool.
Off the Cuff Tough (Impromptu)
- Increase comfort in responding to unprepared moments by quickly organizing thoughts and communicating with ease.
Q&A The Spokesperson Way
- Confidently answer your audience’s most challenging questions, stay on message, and manage the audience to it doesn’t manage you.
My Promise
My workshops provide business professionals with immediately applicable communication skills to help them light up the room and deliver more effective presentations.
My workshops are:
Practical
- Encourages skill development by doing and progressively building on previous exercises.
Applicable
- Provides communication tools that can be used for presentations, meetings, one on one conversations, and even emails.
Experiential
- Exercise-driven to encourage behavior change and skill growth.
Customized
- Feedback during and post session focuses on individual areas for development.
Fun
- Interactive, dialogue vs. monologue, and fast-paced.
"Drastically improved my speech skills"
"Rob was an exceptional teacher who did a great job at reading the room and providing us with all the necessary skills in a short time period!"
"Rob was an exceptional teacher who did a great job at reading the room and providing us with all the necessary skills in a short time period!"
"Rob is an energetic and engaging instructor - I highly recommend working with him. Drastically improved my speech skills in a short session."
1:1 Coaching
90 Minutes
Have a presentation on the calendar and want to know if it's going to resonate with your audience?
Want to know if your message is clear, concise, and compelling?
Are you delivering it in a calm, comfortable, confident way?
Is what you say and how you say it lining up?
Are you inspiring trust and encouraging action at the end of your presentation?
After our session, you will have a better sense of what's working and what to polish so your presentation is more effective in achieving what you hope to achieve.
5 Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective Public Speaker
Authority Magazine Interview
Why Electric Presence
I have provided effective communication skills training to new sales members, up & coming leaders, & senior executives for such companies as Accenture, KPMG, Walgreens, Volkswagen, & CCC Information Systems, among others.
I combine 25 years of public relations experience crafting clear, concise, and compelling messages and preparing CEOs and subject matter experts for media interviews (what to say) with 20 years of acting experience to ensure business professionals deliver those messages in a calm, comfortable, and confident way (how to say it).
Have a presentation on the calendar or want to improve your presentation skills?
If you fear public speaking or want to deliver more effective presentations, I can help. I will help you authentically connect, communicate intentionally, and inspire confidence and trust among your stakeholders.