It was our fifth run of the Persuasion & Presence programme with a major telco undergoing a cultural transformation. The goal was crystal clear: help team members look, sound, and feel like they belonged in the room with senior consultants. They weren’t there just to learn to present; they were there to learn how to sound like...
At the start of the two-day Presentations Alive! training, she introduced herself almost apologetically: “I’m from Finance. I don’t usually make presentations.” What followed wasn’t a lack of ability – it was fear. She wasn’t comfortable expressing herself because it wasn’t routine. She was afraid of making mistakes, afraid of other people’s opinions, and afraid of being...
In a recent round of key account meetings, one of our team members shared how structured client engagements have evolved beyond routine check-ins. By bringing consolidated insights – NPS (Net Promoter Score) trends, programme runs, and cross-function participation – each conversation became a strategic review rather than an operational update. What stood out in these...
It wasn’t just that participants responded well to the session. They began to see a model they could adopt. During one Presentations Alive!™ session, a participant wrote: “I wanna be like him one day.” It was a simple line — but it pointed to something deeper. Not admiration for delivery flair, but recognition of a...
The Compact Slides & One-Pagers™ programme was initially scheduled to run just four times with one of our clients last year. By year’s end, that number had doubled to eight. What drove this expansion was not promotion — but pull from the business. The programme addressed a persistent, everyday challenge: cluttered slides and presentations that...
During a programme, a participant from an Oil & Gas company faced an unexpected challenge. Shortly before the lunch break, he shared with the class that a colleague had to take emergency leave. With little notice, he was asked to step in and present on behalf of his teammate — the client being none other...
A routine client meeting, aimed at scheduling training dates, unexpectedly became a strategic inflection point for the client and our team. As a slide outlining “Business Presentations in Your Organisation” was presented, the client’s interest ignited. They revealed plans for similar training tracks in their strategy for 2025-2026. Intrigued, they asked us to align our...
High Performance Presentations Coaching (previously known as Executive Presentations Coaching). He’d been through it before – presentation courses, frameworks, international trainers. He even had a preferred provider – someone he’d worked with, and requested again. But this time, HR suggested a different path. A fresh approach. One-on-one. Tailored to how he thinks, what he presents,...
Since early 2023, we have been integrating AI into our programmes – beginning with prompt-based exercises and progressing to fully customised AI assistants. Late last year, a client asked us to design an AI assistant for a customised programme – but with a catch: they wanted it to be based on their internal AI platform....
In The Business Storyteller™ programme, we begin with a simple yet powerful exercise. Participants are asked to stand on one side of the room if they believe that they are good storytellers, and on the other if they are not. The room is usually divided. This exercise is repeated at the end of Day 2,...