If you’re a professional in the Chicago area who’s looking to improve your public speaking or presentation skills, you’ve come to the right place! Here is where you will find your voice and become more confident in what you say and how you say it.
At Kennedy Speech Communications, Cliff Kennedy uses his Communication Success Framework to help you craft and deliver every speech, presentation, or talk with confidence and clarity. His proprietary process is based on 30 years of experience in creating audience-connecting events and experiences for corporate giants like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as working with dozens of TEDx speakers to deliver their ideas worth sharing. Begin your Communication Success journey today!
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We offer curated coaching programs and workshops for individuals and large and small groups, as well as an online course that takes participants through a 10-step process for creating and delivering a speech, presentation, or talk.
BetterSpeakers Individual Coaching Program
Refine your public speaking / presentation delivery skills with curated one-on-one coaching programs built for you.
BetterEvents Speaker Preparation & Coaching Service
Ensure your event speakers, sponsors, and panelists are prepared to deliver unforgettable moments.
Corporate Training & Group Workshops
Customizable group programs for teams to enhance their communication skills for any event, meeting, or customer conversation.
Every speech, presentation, or conversation is a new beginning, a new opportunity to engage, empower, and energize your audience. Communication Success: Beginnings is a self-directed video-based course where you will progress step-by-step in developing and delivering a 5, 10, or 20-minute talk on any topic. When you’ve completed the course, you will have a great talk and a repeatable process for impactful presentations.
“The Communication Success course is excellent! World-class coaching for preparation and delivery of a five-minute (or longer) talk. All fundamentals are covered. Streamlined but thorough. Useful for any type of communication, not just the short talk format, as the principles and tools apply universally. Very helpful with a music teaching intro video I’m working on. I think it will also help with lesson videos, live teaching, interviews, and client interactions.”
Stuart, Music Instructor
“Cliff’s guidance and expertise significantly enhanced our speakers’ performances at the TEDx event. His commitment to refining our speakers’ messages and ensuring impactful delivery was invaluable. The success of the event was, in part, a result of his dedication. Thank you, Cliff, for being an integral part of TEDx Palo Alto.”
Ronit, TEDxPaloAlto Co-Chair
Your communication style – its strengths and growth opportunities – are unique to you. Curated coaching from the right coach can make all the difference.
Cliff Kennedy works with individuals, teams, and organizations to improve performance in a variety of communication situations, including keynote speeches, breakout sessions, panel discussions, sales pitches, media events, team meetings, one-to-ones and presentations to management. He has been creating audience-connecting experiences for over 30 years, first as a creative director, writer and executive producer of high-end corporate events and as a communication and speech coach since 2010. Cliff works with many of the world’s leading organizations across all industries. He is also the lead speaker coach for TEDxPaloAlto, where he has helped over 30 speakers develop and deliver their talks to thousands of live and online audience members. You can learn more about Cliff Kennedy here.