Advanced Presentation Skills Training — Beyond the Basics

There’s a big difference between learning to speak and learning to present.

Basic public speaking training is for people starting out — those who just want to stop their knees knocking and get through the next team meeting without going red. That’s a worthy goal. But advanced presentation skills training? That’s a different game entirely.

This is for people who already have a degree of confidence and want to turn it into something sharper, more strategic, and frankly more powerful. People who know the words aren’t the problem — but something still isn’t landing the way it should.

Confidence Is the Starting Point. Not the Destination.

Advanced presentation skills training is where you go from speaking with confidence to speaking with intelligence. It’s the difference between being heard and being remembered. Between filling the room with words and actually moving people to action.

The science of presenting well is learnable. Every bit of it.

When I work with you on advanced presentation techniques, we focus on three things:

• Physiology — what your non-verbal communication is saying (often louder than your words)
• Design — how your presentation is structured and sequenced
• Delivery — the how behind the what

What Sets This Coaching Apart

I’ll be upfront. There are plenty of presentation coaches out there.

What I do differently is focus heavily on the non-verbal — because that’s where the real power lives, especially when you need to persuade and influence. After 40+ years of speaking, coaching, facilitating, and chairing meetings across Australia and internationally, I’ve learned one undeniable truth: audiences feel things before they think them.

When I coach you, I’m watching the whole picture — what the audience sees, what they hear, what they feel, and what they sense. Getting that mix right for your personality and your audience is a craft. And it’s exactly what we work on together.

Meet Stanley

Here’s a concept I use with every client. Everyone has a Stanley.

Stanley is the voice sitting in the back of your audience’s head. You know the feeling — you’re watching a speaker and something just doesn’t sit right. You can’t put your finger on it. But Stanley can.

Maybe the body language doesn’t match the message. Maybe they went off on a tangent and never closed the loop. Maybe there’s no “so what?” Maybe it’s just too fast, too flat, or too complicated.

My job is to hear what Stanley is saying — and fix it before you step on stage.

Hot-Seat Coaching: Where the Real Work Happens

Whether we work 1-on-1 or in a small group workshop, my approach is the same: I deconstruct what you’re currently doing, identify the lowest-hanging fruit — the change that will have the biggest immediate impact — and rebuild from there.

Think of it like a golf coach watching your swing. There are grip adjustments, stance corrections, small tweaks that compound into a completely different outcome. Presenting is no different.

I explain. I demonstrate. Then you practise. This approach connects with every learning style, and it’s something that frankly has been lost in a lot of modern training.

In group settings, I use audience validation — asking the group what they notice after each correction. It builds the coached person’s confidence and proves to them that the changes actually work. No theory for theory’s sake.

The Result?

You’ll own the room. Every time.

That’s not a tagline. That’s what happens when the verbal, the vocal, and the visual are all working together — congruently, consistently, and authentically as you.

Ready to find out what Stanley’s been saying about your presentations? Let’s talk.