A public speaking training program to help leaders level up their leadership and speaking skills.
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Confident public speaking is a core component of great leadership.
Great leaders are often great communicators.
They may not be the most charismatic. They may not be the most extroverted.
But they are, nevertheless, effective speakers.
They have the ability to speak clearly, concisely, and confidently.
The great news is that these leadership speaking skills are both teachable. And easily learnable.
Through practice and coaching, we help leaders level up their leadership and public speaking skills.
By unlocking the power of storytelling, powerful presentation, and effective speech, leader’s can build trust, inspire action, and drive change.
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In our leadership speaking training session, we give leaders:
According to the research, public speaking skills can help leaders:
Wasted time
Increased Stress
Diminshed Satisfaction
We help leader avoid years of trial and error, and shortcut their leadership speaking success.
For a lot of leaders, speaking is not a natural skill. It’s something many talented leaders struggle with.
As a result, they’re often held back. Their full leadership potential remains hidden because of their communication challenges.
Through an interactive leadership speaking training session, we help each leader find their own unique voice, develop executive presence, and bring their best selves to presentations, meetings, and daily communication.
The same skills that help you succeed in giving a speech from the stage are the very same skills you’ll employ when leading a meeting, pitching an idea, giving a media interview, or speaking up in a boardroom.
Each workshop is tailor-made to focus on the challenges faced by your leaders, but these are some of the areas we’ve covered in previous training sessions:
Please contact us here for a free consultation on how we can elevate your team’s leadership and communication skills.
You can tailor Akash’s communication programs to address different areas. This offers a level of customization delivered only by the world’s top communication speakers.
Here are just a few of the areas covered:
Leadership Presence
Clear Thinking Under Pressure
Audience Engagement
Storyboarding Strategies
Message Structure
Influence Tactics
Got an audience with specific communication challenges?
Combine several areas to create a tailored program!
For over a decade, Akash has coached leaders and executives around the world on how to leverage their presentations, speeches, and meetings as a tool for influence.
In addition to his coaching, Akash is also an experienced keynote speaker:
Akash has coached the global executive team at Gucci, government members in Dubai, sales leaders in Switzerland, and more.
Akash has also coached leaders at all levels – from highly experienced executives to new managers – and from a variety of industries: investment banking, insurance, sports management, technology, insurance, entertainment, education, government, fashion, and more.
Akash’s work as a CEO speaking coach continues to guide the training sessions he runs for corporate leaders around the world.
Clients love Akash’s engaging and interactive workshops. His sessions are incredibly interactive and allow for lots of interaction, questions, debate, and practice.
Please leave your message here, and give us details on what you’re looking for (objectives, audience size, location, etc). We’ll send you all the details you need to make an informed decision.
In this speaking and leadership program, we go deep into some of the following topics:
Your voice is one of your most powerful tools as a leader.
This program will show you how to use it – everything from tone, pace, pausing, energy, volume, vocal variety and more.
Through peer-based activities, video-taping your mock presentations and on-the-spot coaching, you’ll learn how to master your what you say, as well as how you say it.
Uncover the science of non-verbal communication.
From hand gestures to how you stand to your facial expressions, they all play a role in how you are perceived as a leader. You’ll learn all the top public speaking tips you need to master the art of presenting as a leader.
The ability to calm your nerves, project credibility and really own the stage when you speak are important components of your executive presence.
You’ll discover and practice tactics for “owning the room” with your emotional management.
Leadership storytelling is both an art and a science.
We show you how to use this powerful tool to influence people.
If you would like to dive deeper into strategic storytelling, you can also check out the “Storytelling for Leaders” workshop and corporate storytelling workshops.
Related: 7 key storytelling techniques
Discover how to make your messages more memorable and persuasive using structure, rhetorical questions, and other public speaking devices.
Leaders need to be able to tailor their message to different groups.
You’ll discover how to quickly tailor the content and approach of your speeches and presentations to your audience so that your messages truly resonate with them.
Leaders don’t always have the luxury of preparing for their public speaking appearances.
Learning how to craft, structure, and deliver a message on the fly is something that we teach in this public speaking program for leaders.
This leadership and public speaking training program is designed to help leaders level up their speaking skills.
The goal is to help leaders harness the power of persuasive public speaking as a leadership tool to influence, motivate, and inspire. We also cover how to apply these very same strategies to meetings, impromptu speaking occasions, persuading via written word, and more.
By the end of this training session, your leaders will walk away with:
Hear what Lisa Elkin, a former participant in one of our leadership speaking workshops, had to say:
“Akash’s workshops were by far the best workshops I’ve ever attended. He is incredibly engaging, inspirational, and energizing!
He grabs the audience and keeps them mesmerized—there is no impulse to check emails or think about anything else—you just want to lean in and listen.
More importantly, he makes his audience really feel like they can rise up and be more inspirational leaders themselves.
I’ve given some of the best talks of my life on the heels of his workshops and I’m sure that a large part of this was due to the energy and insight I gained from Akash.”
Here what clients are saying about this program:
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Wrigley
Gucci
This public speaking and leadership training program is highly interactive.
It involves a 3-stage process where leaders learn the core speaking and leaderships techniques, apply them by stepping up on stage, and refining them through coaching and feedback:
In this training session, we use real-world case studies, practical exercises, and group coaching to help leaders level up their speaking skills.
Here are some of the logistical details:
Length: 3 – 5 hours over 1 or 2 days
Audience Size: 5 to 35 leaders
Format: In-person. Hybrid sessions available on request
During the session, we take participants through an interactive workshop.
Depending on the time available, this can be done either over one or two days.
Effective leadership speaking is NOT about being charismatic.
It’s not about the audience clapping for you and telling you that you are the best speaker in the world.
Instead, it is about using speaking as a medium for influence.
That first starts by eliminating any big public speaking mistakes that may be detracting from your credibility and undermining your message.
Then, once we’ve removed the mistakes, we start layering on public speaking tools that will help you be more persuasive.
No. This isn’t a training program on how to be charismatic!
This is a leadership speaking program on how to be an EFFECTIVE speaker.
While charisma can help with influence, it is by no means necessary. Leaders can still be outstanding public speakers even if they’re shy and introverted.
This program will not force anyone to change their personality.
But it will challenge them to grow beyond any existing limitations and bring a more powerful and persuasive version of themselves on stage. Charisma is not required!
The investment varies depending on the location and audience size. We do, however, have options for a variety of corporate budgets. Please contact us here.
We recommend between 5 to 35 people for this program.
We have two versions of this program. We have a one-day program, as well as a two-day program. Feel free to get in touch with us to chat about which program would be the best for you.
This program is best run as an in-person session.
However, we have had great success running virtual sessions as well and would be happy to speak to you about this.
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