Speaker Training
I’m equally at home helping you write your speech or thinking about the most effective and impactful way to deliver it drawing on techniques from stand up and improvisational comedy. I also work with individuals and organisations using tools from the world of comedy to build confidence/teamwork and resilience.
Individual work
- Working with Shiza Shahid (co-founder Malala Fund and co founder “Our Place”) on a TEDX style talk
- Working on a presentation and TV stand-up set with Dr Ann Kaplan-Mulholland (Real Housewives of Toronto, CEO Ifinance Canada)
- Working on stand-up and audition material with Ritu Arya (Umbrella Academy, Netflix)
- Working with a member of the House of Lords on their maiden speech and on a confidential basis with current and past politicians
- Working on the script for the CEO of a group representing the video games industry at their annual award ceremony
- Several Fund Managers working on pitching and presentation skills
- Senior Lawyers looking to develop their public speaking and audience interaction skills
- Several well known entrepreneurs, business people looking to build TED style talks
Corporate Work – recently I’ve worked with
- A large firm of lawyers in Zurich. Half a day with 4 cohorts of 20 lawyers each time focussed on utilising persona with lessons from comedy and applying that to speeches, pitches, corporate progression and relationship building.
- A large Bank’s Cyber team looking to make their presentations more engaging and have a team building day
- A sales team from a Fund Manager looking to build on and develop their presentations
- A start up incubator looking to develop presentation skills and confidence in their cohort
Sessions can include and be focussed on
- Public speaking skills for presentations, client pitches and corporate events
- Coping with nerves prior to and during a presentation/public speaking
- Write and perform a short stand up set (everyone who wants to does it with prep/help and feedback from the trainer)
- Building Creativity
- Using skills from comedy to build corporate relationships
- Building resilience using lessons from stand up comedy
and I regularly (along with trainers I often partner with) build a bespoke session/day depending on the requirements of the client
Rate
£150-£200 per hour
£400-£600 for 3 hours.
Full day £800-£1,500
"Dec is a real master of his craft. I approached him a year ago, with the daunting task of doing a gig in front of 1000 corporate colleagues. Dec helped me find the line between funny and over the top, tailoring the comedy perfectly to the audience and setting. The 10 minute-show he helped craft resulted in a promotion, which wouldn't have been possible without him"
“It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Dec, he is a consummate professional and gave me some of my best jokes. Working with him has improved my public speaking enormously and, importantly, helped me get that crucial laugh at the right moment. I cannot recommend him highly enough”
“Dec is very good at active listening and asking questions he drew many anecdotes out of me that I didn’t expect I would be talking about, which then became funny material for the work he really helped me get my script to closer to the way I speak casually rather than my writing voice”