How dynamically do you present yourself and your ideas? Is your speaking style helping or hindering your influence with stakeholders? Whatever your profession, your ability to express yourself credibly and compellingly is the key factor in your professional advancement and success. Simply put: You need to speak with power, passion, and persuasiveness in high-stakes situations.

Public Speaking International is your premiere resource for this level of executive speaker training. PSI president and speech coach Dr. Gary Genard specializes in high-performance communication skills for the management tier and above.  He has trained leaders worldwide from every critical sector of the economy and public policy:  business, finance, government and politics, law, healthcare, nonprofit services, and international diplomacy. When your need to persuade listeners is all-important, work with the one executive speech coach that will make you a master communicator.

Executive Speech Coaching and Speaker Training is designed to help you or your executive team excel in your most crucial speaking situations. From sales calls to project proposals, client updates to board presentations, annual meetings to community outreach, advocacy to testimony, international gatherings to webcasts, convention speeches to press conferences and media interviews—with Dr. Genard’s training, your impact and influence will soar. His executive-level speaker training has only one goal: to bring you maximum success as you express your key messages and Find your true voice.™

Executive Speech Coaching and Speaker Training with Dr. Gary Genard

You’ll be working exclusively with world-renowned expert speech coach Dr. Gary Genard, founder of PSI and a former professional actor. Dr. Genard’s theater-based speaker training techniques have helped thousands of professionals worldwide achieve true speaking excellence. From developing your message to strengthening your platform skills, he’ll show you techniques that will make your presentations more vivid, memorable—and successful.

Speaker Training is also available to sharpen the skills of your executive team for annual meetings, investor day conferences, portfolio company sales, capabilities presentations, road shows and product introductions, conference calls, corporate retreats, and conventions.

Programs available: Hourly sessions, 1-day and 2-day private speech coaching workshops or group training, and extended training programs. You can choose to work with Dr. Genard in our Boston office or your location worldwide. Executive speech coaching by telephone with Dr. Genard is also available. In-person Executive Speech Coaching and Speaker Training includes instruction and exercises, simulations and role-playing, viewing video clips, DVD videotaped practice with critiques, and a copy of Dr. Genard’s groundbreaking book How to Give a Speech (2007).

The Executive Edge™ — Areas of Focus

Maximizing Your Credibility and Self-Confidence

• Increased visibility and impact in your company, organization, and industry
• Selling your company’s ideas and vision to prospects and stakeholders
• Strengthening your credibility through greater presence and authority
• Speaking more productively in meetings, team updates, and presentations
• Tapping into your natural talents as a speaker and communicator
• Building rapport with prospects and clients for long-term relationships
• Speaker training for annual meetings, conferences, and project proposals
• Achieving maximum clarity and conciseness
• Why You Are Always the Message When You Speak
• Developing ease and confidence when speaking to large groups and audiences
• “Simplifying and selling” complex concepts
• Message Development: How to Shape a Speech and Support Your Arguments
• Speaking eloquently: How to make your voice and the language sing
• Getting to ‘Wow’: Ten Meeting Presentation Tips
• Selling your ideas and vision—whatever resistance you encounter
• Five Techniques to Use When Your Presentation Encounters Hostility
• “Speaking up” to senior-level management and boards

Speaking for Persuasion and Influence

• Strengthening your listening and negotiating skills with stakeholders
• Softening an overly aggressive or abrasive communication style
• Presentation Strategy: Choosing a Direct or Indirect Approach
• Speaking with impact and achieving buy-in with busy C-Suite executives
• Constructing powerful arguments for financing and investment decisions
• Speaking Smart: Harnessing the Power of Your Voice to Convince Others
• Critical buy-in: getting audiences to think, feel, and do what you want them to
• The C.U.R.E. method for persuading audiences—whatever the resistance
• Tapping into the 93% of an audience’s perception of you as a presenter
• How to read an audience and think on your feet
• Using emotional language and approaches to persuade listeners
• Techniques for getting audience members to retain key information
• Churchill’s famous 81-word speech had 72 one-syllable words. Can you do that?
• Speaking internationally and influencing global audiences
• Using Stump Speeches and Media Appearances to Gain Voters’ Trust
• Preparing for Press Conferences, Media Interviews, and Crisis Situations

Becoming a More Powerful Communicator

• The Presentation Skills Self-Assessment™ Survey
• Secrets of Nonverbal Communication: How You Look and Sound
• How to broadcast deep confidence and gather the power in a room
• Calming your nerves and achieving 100% focus when presenting
• True ‘inspiration’: breathing techniques for maximum presence and awareness
• Audience analysis techniques for organizing your presentations more efficiently
• How to speak dynamically when using notes or a manuscript
• Financial presentations that clarify funding decisions and exit strategies
• What Is Your Body Saying? — Using Nonverbal Communication Effectively
• Recognizing body language clues to understand what others are thinking
• Power Speaking Techniques for Women (and Others)
• Speaking Visually in the Age of Television, Film, and the Internet
• Dynamic presenters tell interesting and engaging stories. Do you?
• Introductions and Conclusions that move audiences to action
• The Four Secrets to Delivering the Right Sound Bites
• Surviving and Thriving in Q & A: The Forgotten Avenue to Audience Persuasion
• Toasts, Awards, and Speaking on Special Occasions
• Your customized DVD of your videotaped practice and critiques

Public Speaking International’s Executive Speech Coaching and Speaker Training is always completely customized to your needs, goals, and objectives.