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.
Recent private clients have included Shiza Shahid (co-founder Malala Fund & co founder “Our Place”), Dr Ann Kaplan-Mulholland (Real Housewives of Toronto, CEO Ifinance Canada), Ritu Arya (Umbrella Academy, Netflix) and, on a confidential basis, current and past politicians, TV presenters and broadcasters, C-Suite executives and senior fund managers and lawyers.
"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”