Presentation skills coaching for individuals
Organize your thoughts, control your nervousness, and present with confidence
Good presentation skills can enhance your credibility and position you for career advancement
Turning down speaking opportunities because you’re not sure what to do or you feel nervous about speaking? Worried that you’re overwhelming your audience with too much information?
Brenda works with individuals who would like to:
- Represent their company well if asked to present to peer groups or at industry events
- Be seen as a potential leader, to get promotion opportunities, and good/interesting projects – to become more valuable to the company
- Appear competent, as someone who is “good at this”
- Get help controlling nerves and feeling more confident about presenting
- Learn how to structure their content and create an interesting and informative presentation
Over multiple sessions, Brenda helped me to prepare for an hour long talk in front of an audience of professionals in Vancouver.
By working with Brenda, I was able to create a structure for my talk and come up with relatable stories to share.
Brenda’s well thought out strategy gave me the confidence I needed to make my talk as effective, entertaining and memorable as possible.
I look forward to working with Brenda again!
~ Victoria Cubbon, Designer, Marketer, Illustrator
Brenda was fantastic – her helpful suggestions paid off
Brenda recently gave me feedback on a fairly important talk I was about to deliver in the US. One of the advantages of working with a professional (and a former lawyer, and specifically Brenda) is that you know that you’re going to get straight-forward feedback. She was fantastic – pointed to what I needed to keep doing and made helpful recommendations, all of which I followed. One of them meant moving content to my opening (not a small change so close to the event), and it was 100% right. I knew I could trust her and doing so paid off in getting closer to my audience faster.
Every detail-oriented person can become an effective and memorable speaker with the right system and training
Brenda can help you:
- Organize your content so that it makes sense to your audience whether expert or non-expert
- Create interesting and engaging PowerPoint slides that don’t distract from your presentation
- Include the right amount of detail (and determine the best way to present it)
- Connect with your audience and command attention
- Use relevant storytelling to hold interest and make important information easier to remember
- Incorporate brain-science techniques to improve learning and recall
- Overcome nerves and present with confidence
Bootcamp
For newer detail-oriented speakers who want to manage nerves and overcome fear of presenting
3 – 6 weeks before the presentation
- Training videos so you will learn an easy-to-use 5 step organization to make your presentation memorable, learn why images and stories enhance memorability and learn tools to overcome nerves and feel confident on stage
- Personalized coaching on organization and PowerPoint so your presentation will be both informative and memorable
- A chance to practice your presentation with feedback to find out what you are doing well and receive a few ideas to make your presentation even better
- Detailed needs assessment after your presentation so that you won’t try to focus on too many things during your presentation but learn what other areas to focus on so that your future presentations are even more informative and memorable.
Brenda’s well thought out strategy gave me the confidence I needed to make my talk as effective, entertaining and memorable as possible.
~ Victoria Cubbon, Designer, Marketer, Illustrator
Polish
For experienced detail-oriented speakers who want to polish their presentation by fixing one thing they are worried about
1 – 2 weeks before the presentation
- Training videos on three mistakes that detail-oriented presenters make and three tools to fix those mistakes so you will understand how to enhance what your audience learns and remembers
- A dry run of your up to 60-minute presentation and up to 30 minutes of supportive feedback so that you can practice your presentation, find out what you are doing well, and receive a few ideas to make your presentation even better
- Detailed needs assessment after your presentation so that you won’t try to focus on too many things during your presentation but learn what other areas to focus on so that your future presentations are even more informative and memorable.
Brenda provided strong, relevant pointers that would help get the message across effectively while keeping the audience engaged. Her enthusiasm and passion is so contagious!
~ Ashley Avinashi, Founder at Raising Humanity