About PrepTalk

I launched PrepTalk in 2012 after a 20-year career helping leaders communicate better. The thing I learned is that no matter the professional success or location on the org chart, nearly everyone faces some barrier to communicating as clearly and confidently as they'd like.​

 

For years, I watched these truly talented executives approach presentation training with an almost apologetic stance - as though they should have come into their professional world fully ready to kill a keynote and speak in any situation without nerves or uncertainty. But the reality is that the elements that make a great speaker - authenticity, confidence, clarity (and about 20 other qualities!) - are not those that come naturally to most of us.  The trick to being great is to keep that center of authenticity - so that you can still communicate clearly and confidently and in a compelling way - but you don't ever need to feel like you are faking it.​

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PrepTalk Consulting still offers a range of corporate training programs for executives, teams and individuals, but in 2023 I launched The PrepTalk Confidence Lab, specifically to focus on those speakers who want to take the time to really get better at this whole public speaking thing. You can learn more about the thinking behind this in the Confidence Lab Manifesto.

 

Regardless of the approach - a half-day corporate training program, or a 12-week Confidence Cohort - every PrepTalk client  experiences a bespoke training geared to where *you* are. There is no rinse-and-repeat training here. Think of PrepTalk as your personal trainer - handing you weights and stretching exercises customized to your unique level of experience. A strong focus on on-camera practice means participants walk away with not only some intensive practice, but with an increased level of self-awareness. Sessions are fun and engaging - but also challenging and thought-provoking.

 

"Strengthening your presentation muscles isn't about fixing what's wrong;

it's about making yourself strong where it matters." ~ Kirsten Birkeland