“Extraordinary communication skills for business success.”

Are you a confident and compelling speaker?  Is your vocal style helping or hindering you in reaching your personal goals?  Do you speak confidently in conversational skills, networking, interviews, and reaching out to stakeholders?  How about your listening abilities?  Are you succeeding at using the most important business skill you own?

A dynamic speaking style is your #1 Tool for positively influencing listeners—friends, colleagues, associates, bosses, customers, clients, and audiences of all kinds. You simply will not be successful in the world of business if you’re not a good communicator.  Public Speaking International is your ideal resource for gaining the level of oral communication skills you need.

It’s Simple:  Improve Your Speech and you’ll go Further, Faster

Whatever your profession, you’ll benefit from “the next level” tools and techniques of PSI’s Public Speech Improvement.  You’ll be working with former professional actor and Voice and Diction professor Dr. Gary Genard, founder and president of Public Speaking International.  He’ll give you hands-on practical skills for immediate and dramatic improvement to help you speak successfully.

Learn how to maximize your natural abilities while improving in the areas that may be limiting your influence. Do you lack confidence in the impression you give others when you speak?  We’ll help boost your confidence and show you how to speak with power. Unhappy with your voice?  Our “5 Key Tools of Vocal Dynamics” will help make your voice more interesting and engaging.  Need to overcome speech problems such as nasality, weak voice, too many “uh’s” and “um’s,” or poor breathing and other signs of speech nervousness?  We’re experts in solving every one of those problems, and more.  We’ll even show you how to use PowerPoint to engage and intrigue audiences, instead of leaving them eyeing the exits!

“There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

So if you’re looking for voice and speech improvement to accelerate your career, no one can get you there faster or more dramatically than Public Speaking International. We have a vast library of materials, audio tapes and videos, and specific techniques for pinpointing your problems and solving them.  Let us help you speak to be heard, for personal and professional success!

Programs available: Private hourly coaching, one- and two-day intensive private workshops, and extended coaching programs. [Note: If public speaking and presentation skills improvement is needed, this workshop can be combined with Public Speaking and Presentation Skills. If leadership issues are involved, this workshop can be combined with Executive Speech Coaching.]

Dr. Gary Genard is an internationally recognized expert in public voice and speech improvement.  He works with executives, small business owners, managers and consultants, healthcare professionals, lawyers, entrepreneurs, politicians, government personnel, NGOs, and diplomats in improving their speech and interpersonal communication skills.  A former professional actor, Dr. Genard founded Public Speaking International to bring theater-based techniques of dramatic speech improvement to business and nonprofit professionals.

Speech Improvement for Career and Personal Success

• Calm your speech anxiety and gain confidence
• Free your voice and discover your natural speaking abilities
• Speak successfully in meetings, presentations, and at conferences
• Improve the clarity and articulation of your speech
• Influence others in interpersonal conversations and networking
• Speak with greater ease, comfort, and complete confidence
• Become more charismatic and likeable
• Overcome speech problems such as nasality and poor diction
• Learn how to use your voice to persuade and influence others
• Develop a voice that’s more powerful and authoritative
• Gain greater self-confidence and assertiveness as a speaker
• Achieve professionalism and eloquence in your speech
• Easy techniques for making your voice more interesting and engaging
• Making your voice more powerful and authoritative
• Improve your interpersonal communication and conversational skills
• Soften abrasive, harsh, or aggressive speaking tendencies
• Overcome a too-rapid speech delivery and breathlessness
• Eliminate vocalized pauses and vocal “fill-ins” such as “uh” and ”um”
• Improve your listening skills and empathy when conversing with others

Improve the Quality and Professionalism of Your Speech

• Learn to speak concisely using evidence to support your conclusions
• Achieve greater presence through breathing, relaxation, and improved focus
• Convey your passion and commitment to your ideas, products, and services
• How to structure and support a convincing argument
• Soften a regional accent or grammar that may be limiting your advancement
• Gaining greater fluency in English for non-native speakers
• Improve your “people skills” with subordinates and support personnel
• The Art of Credibility: How to speak with authority in person and on the phone
• The 93% of peoples' perception of you that you may be missing!
• Techniques for conveying technical information to non-technical audiences
• Increase your likeability through your speaking style
• 82% of phone effectiveness involves this. Are you doing it?
• Keep your listeners attentive and attuned to your message
• Use language effectively to make what you say memorable