Public Speaking, Presentation Skills, and Media Training for Leadership
If you want to influence people, your skills as a communicator had better equal your expertise and passion. There’s simply no way around it.
Public Speaking International is a Boston-based company that helps clients worldwide Find their true voice™ for that level of influence—in business and finance, sales, politics and government, law, sports marketing, nonprofit services, and other professional pursuits. We’re one of the world’s premiere presentation skills and media training companies.
Our services include executive speech coaching, presentations improvement, sales presentation training, speech improvement, product endorsement coaching, and media appearance coaching and training. We’ve worked with thousands of professionals from around the world in high-stakes appearances: executives, politicians and diplomats, athletes, lawyers, healthcare professionals, small business men and women, and NGOs—from New York to New Delhi, from Arizona to Abu Dhabi.
PSI features the techniques of Dr. Gary Genard, a former professional actor and one of the world’s foremost authorities on public speaking and audience-centered communication. We’ll help develop your message and then videotape you to make your presentations, speeches, sales talks, campaigns and road shows, interviews, press conferences, media appearances, and product endorsements more vivid, memorable—and successful.
From everyday business to high-stakes presentations and speeches, PSI will show you or your employees how to speak at your best in today’s global marketplace. Choose from the following coaching and training services, or link to our Speechwriting Services page:
The Public Speaking International 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 performance techniques that are the hallmarks of Public Speaking International’s methods.
Gary Genard, Ph.D.
Founder and President
GARY GENARD is an internationally known speech coach and corporate trainer. He is the founder of Boston-based Public Speaking International, one of the world’s premiere presentation skills and media training companies. An expert in audience-centered communication, he works with business executives, financial services firms, government officials, politicians, lawyers, small business men and women, and nonprofit organizations in oral communication skills for leadership. A former professional actor, Dr. Genard holds a Ph.D. in Theatre with a concentration in speech from Tufts University. He also trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before a career Off Broadway and in film, television, radio, and on national tours.
As president and executive trainer at Public Speaking International, Dr. Genard's clients include Harvard Business School, Citigroup, the United Nations, Cisco, Pfizer, ITT Aerospace, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wachovia Capital Markets, the Flashner Judicial Institute, the U.S. State Department, both houses of Congress, the U.S. Army, and many others. Dr. Genard is Professor of Public Speaking and Media Training at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His teaching credentials also include Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Emerson College, Bentley University, 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 on courtroom performance for Court Call, the journal of the American Society of Trial Consultants. He is the author of the book How to Give a Speech (Cedar & Maitland Press, 2007). He has also published articles in many national publications including Presentations Magazine, Campaigns and Elections, Court Call, The Jury Expert, 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.
Josephine Sacre
Middle East Representative
JOSEPHINE SACRE is the Middle East representative of Public Speaking International, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Fluent in Arabic, French, and English, Jose is a trained speech therapist as well as a public speaking and presentation skills coach. She trained with some of the leading therapists and ENT doctors in France, Canada, and Lebanon. Jose teaches at St. Joseph University in Beirut, and supervises trainees at the speech rehabilitation center there. She works with both adults and children on voice and speech-related issues, and is available for consulting and training on behalf of PSI throughout the Middle East.
Joséphine Sacre est la représentante de PSI au Moyen Orient, basée à Beyrouth, capitale Libanaise. Trilingue (Arabe, Français, Anglais), José est une orthophoniste expérimentée ainsi qu’un coach en voix et discours public. Elle fut formée par des sommités en la matière en France, au Canada, aux Etats Unis et au Liban. José est enseignante et superviseur de stages à l’Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth. Elle suit ses patients sur le plan de la voix et du langage tout en étant disponible pour les consultations et les formations dans le cadre de sa représentation de PSI au Moyen Orient.
Whether you’ll be addressing clients and customers, stakeholders or stockholders, constituents, or media audiences, Public Speaking International will help you reach “the next level” of speaking excellence. Your credibility, reputation, and profits are always on the line. Let us help groom you for success in today’s global business and media environments.
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