Successful events have successful speakers. Nothing is more painful than watching the days and hours of planning and coordination fall apart the moment your well-intentioned presenters stumble or drone on to a bored audience. You may be an expert meeting and event planner, but preparing the experts requires expertise, patience, resources, and time that you don’t have.
With BetterEvents Coaching, I work with event planners, production teams, and conference organizers who:
Lack the time or knowledge to prepare experts to better connect with your audience
Provide VIP experiences for their speakers and sponsors while ensuring deadlines are met
Can’t afford for their keynotes, panels, or individual sessions to fall flat for the audience
Want to make their meeting, event, or conference as impactful and memorable as possible
Kennedy Speech Communications offers a speaker preparation and coaching service for events that takes presenters, customers, and technical experts through a proven 5-step process to successfully craft and deliver their speeches, presentations, and panel discussions on your timeline and budget. Each program is customized to your event and speakers’ needs, audience, and timelines.
Take the first steps to better speakers and events
Each participant receives curated coaching through one-to-one or group sessions to sharpen their messages and deliver with confidence and impact.
Each program supports all speakers and includes:
* Deliverables coordination to meet deadlines
* Theme, purpose, vision, and strategy alignment
* Content guidance for better messaging
* Rehearsing delivery for on or off the stage or screen
Consistent process delivers consistent results
An inclusive service that ensures your speakers meet all deadlines. Based on a 5-step process for improving performance at your event. You’ll see:
* More cohesive content development, delivery coaching, and coordination for all presenters, panelists, and workshops
* Better speakers who are more confident, memorable, and more satisfied with their performance
* Memorable event experiences that deliver results for you, your sponsors, and your attendees
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.
Several years ago, I was working with Susie, the brand manager at a luxury automotive manufacturer. She was preparing for her speaking opportunity at an international dealer meeting. It was going to be her first high-stakes speech in the spotlight, with very big implications for the company, her team and her career.
Marc presented like a typical manager at his global software company. As the knowing expert, he gave detailed “what” answers while audiences wondered about the “why.” Among friends, he was an entertainer who told great stories, but when he tried to integrate some humor into his presentations, his punchlines drew only blanks.
If you look closely, all and any of our stories weave together. For Ankur, a TEDxPaloAlto speaker I coached, three childhood models led to a profound impact on the lives of 38 people he would meet 20 years later.
Looking for one-on-one presentation training and public speaking coaching? Check out Kennedy Speech’s curated individual coaching programs and the Communication Success: Beginnings online course.