Communicating complexity, managing thoughts, performance anxiety
It is not just being intimidated by technical experts or senior powermongers in your audience, there are a myriad of other supposed triggers (like being unprepared, being broadcast, and so on) that we often believe can inhibit our flow in explaining dense ideas or managing our rapid-fire thoughts as we speak. At the worst it can produce panic attack symptoms, like a frozen or shaky voice, or the impulse to escape the room.

I can take you on a well-trodden journey that I developed, partly based in CBT practice, which after hundreds of clients has proven effective in alleviating this:
  • Developing your ‘all-eyes-on’ executive presence via group control dynamics in managing a room live
  • Unpacking your perceived causes that arise as unwanted thoughts (vicious-cycle thinking)
  • Exploring and refining your coping mechanisms that bring feelings of psychological safety
  • Disempowering internal chatter with CBT techniques, and using reframing
  • Building and employing psychological anchoring
  • Focusing on what is important and human
  • Learning about the hormones that link with feelings and how to manage them
  • Making friends with residual stress responses, extending your comfort zone

For proficient speakers whose issue is just losing their way when speaking about complicated ideas under pressure, I apply a two-pronged approach. You will learn to:
  • Firstly, manage unwanted thoughts using a CBT-based approach,
  • Secondly, manage your content in a hierarchical rather than linear structure.
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Caroline Weiss Jones
Group Operations Director

"Tony is a professional, extremely knowledgeable, articulate and approachable. He provided me superb guidance and direction in public speaking and helped me rediscover an inner confidence and self belief that I thought I had lost."

Adam
Chief Product Officer

"Inspiring - Tony has patiently guided me along a path to career enlightenment. Enabling me to achieve clarity and define a vision for my future. He has set mechallenges which ultimately helped me understand my core drivers and the value I can add."

John Truelove
PRS for Music

"Tony's guidance as a speech and presentation coach were transformative for me. He helped me understand my motivations and inhibitions. At the start he told me his goal was to make himself redundant as fast as possible. He helped overcome the blockages with impressive speed and insight. I have already recommended Tony to several colleagues."

Harry
Graduate in the property sector

"Tony showed me how to demonstrate my strengths in a format employers recognise. He helped in every aspect of the process, from the way to behave, to having solid answers to questions I was likely to be asked (and they really did come up!)"

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