About Public Speaking International

Public Speaking International provides clients with custom-designed executive coaching and group training in public speaking and presentation skills, sales effectiveness, media appearances, and vocal skills improvement. We help professionals worldwide develop and deliver their critical messages for maximum influence and success.

Our executive coaching and group workshops—at our Boston offices or your location in the U.S. or abroad—provide participants with intensive, fast-track tools and techniques for rapid and dramatic improvement.

From everyday business to high-stakes presentations to crisis situations, PSI will help you or your employees speak at your very best in today’s global marketplace. We serve individuals, teams, businesses, and organizations whose need to influence listeners is of paramount importance. Choose from the following coaching and training services, or link to our Speechwriting Services page:

• Speak at Your Best!™ – Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
• Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
• Executive Coaching
• Professional and Leadership Presence
• SalesTalk™ Training
• Women Voices of Leadership™ Training
• Speech Improvement
• Media Training
• Political and Diplomatic Communication

The PSI Training Method

PSI’s coaching and training method was developed through many years of consulting with business, government, and nonprofit clients by PSI founder and president, Gary Genard, Ph.D., who remains as the company’s principal trainer and coach. Dr. Genard brings thirty-five years of experience to his work in communication skills training as a businessman, consultant, professor of communication, and former professional actor. He is an active member of the National Speakers Association (read his speaker’s profile), and is available as an expert source through Business Wire (Dr. Genard’s expert profile).

Public Speaking International uses theatre-based techniques of performance to help you reduce your anxiety and speak with maximum influence and success. Our coaching, workshops, and speechwriting services have one overriding goal: to foster communication excellence in you, your leadership team, and your workforce. We give you the practical skills you’ll use every day to deliver your critical messages with authenticity and passion—to any audience, in favorable or challenging circumstances.

We customize all of our training and consulting to your goals and objectives. You tell us exactly what you’re looking for in a workshop, seminar, or speech, and that’s what we provide. Our coaching and training uses lectures and demonstrations, simulated sales and presentation situations, customer and audience role-plays, group activities, theater games, storytelling exercises, media role-plays, videotaped performance and critiques, and other simulated practice sessions. We analyze your strengths and weaknesses, then give you the tools you need to speak for results. Each participant at PSI’s coaching and workshops receives a DVD recording of their practice presentations or simulations as part of the training.

Our speechwriters will work closely with you to understand your precise aims and objectives for your speech or prepared remarks. They will help you achieve leadership, clarity, and influence, capturing the power of your ideas and the strength of your convictions. In all of the services PSI offers, we’ll help you develop and deliver your critical messages with presence, power, and persuasiveness. Call us today at (781) 643-2095 for the world-class communications training and speechwriting you need for today’s competitive global marketplace.

Public Speaking International’s Senior Leadership Team

Public Speaking International’s trainers and speechwriters include some of the most knowledgeable and dynamic professionals in the business. Each of our experts works closely, intuitively, and expertly to customize the work we’re performing for you. As a team, they have extensive experience in consulting and training, including the speechwriting and performance techniques that are the hallmarks of Public Speaking International’s methods.

Whether your project requires a single facilitator or consultant or a two-person team, Public Speaking International will help you achieve practical, actionable communications that you, your leadership team, and your audiences will use for increased success. Your organization’s credibility and professionalism are always on display and on the line. Let us help you speak for success in today’s global business and human services environments.

Gary Genard, Ph.D.
Founder and President

GARY GENARD is an internationally known expert in communication performance. A professional speaker, coach, author, and trainer, he helps clients and audiences worldwide excel in communication skills for leadership. Formerly a professional actor, Dr. Genard consults for corporate executives, governments and international diplomats, associations and organizations, and NGOs worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre with a concentration in speech from Tufts University, an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. summa cum laude in Speech and Theatre. He also trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before embarking on a career Off Broadway, in television, film, radio, and on national tours.

As founder and president of Public Speaking International, Dr. Genard's clients include Citigroup, Harvard Business School, Wachovia Securities, Sterling Capital Partners, Ingersoll Rand, Verizon, the U.S. State Department and both houses of the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, and many others. Dr. Genard is Professor of Public Speaking and Media Training at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Management Communication at Simmons College. His teaching credentials also include Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Emerson College, Bentley College, and the University of Illinois. He spent three years in the strategic planning division at the national headquarters of the CBS Television Network, and worked for six years at the Boston law firms Hill & Barlow, and Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault. Dr. Genard is a past contributing editor for Court Call, the journal of the American Society of Trial Consultants. He is the author of How to Give a Speech (Cedar & Maitland Press, 2007). He has published articles in many national publications including Presentations Magazine, Campaigns and Elections, Court Call, Insurance Meetings Management, Fund Raising Institute Monthly, and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Management Communication Letter.

John Baldoni, Senior Consultant
Leadership Communications and Speechwriting

JOHN BALDONI’s extensive background in business communications and management development helps clients develop their communications, learning, and leadership skills. His leadership work centers on how leaders can use their communications to build trust and achieve results. By focusing on the concept of personal leadership, John shows how leaders can use communications to guide and inspire their people through every phase of the leadership cycle from character and vision through planning, coaching, motivation, and supervision. As a speechwriter, John has worked with senior leaders in the financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and packaged goods industries to develop presentations that capture the power of their ideas and the strengths of their convictions.

John is the author of five books on leadership: Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2005), Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders (McGraw-Hill 2003); Personal Leadership, Taking Control of Your Work Life (Elsewhere Press, 2001); 180 Ways to the Walk the Leadership Talk (Performance Systems, 2000); and with Eric Harvey, 180 Ways to the Walk the Motivation Talk (Performance Systems, 2002). Two of his essays have been collected in Harvard Business School’s new book series, The Results Driven Manager. John's articles on leadership have appeared in the Harvard Management Update, Harvard Management Communications Letter, Leader to Leader, Link & Learn, T&D, Wharton Leadership Digest, and Global CEO. John is a frequent speaker on leadership topics and is widely quoted as a leadership authority by such publications as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today.

 
 
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