Next LIVE course: Level 1 Confident Engaging Speaking starts Fri 16 or Sat 17 Oct.

2027 intake starts Fri 29 or Sat 30 Jan.

Instalments available

Confident Engaging Speaking Course - 5-week small group live in Melbourne

Are you afraid of, or uncomfortable about, public speaking or presenting?

Do you worry that you’re not engaging, or lose your audience too easily? The Confident Engaging Speaking Course is designed to change that.

It will help you:

Accelerate your progress enormously.

Learn every foundational skill you need in just 5 weeks.

Next course starts Mid-October. Dates and times further down the page.

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Discover how to positively impact your public speaking or presentations in the Confident Engaging Speaking course.

This ‘fundamentals’ 5-week series will equip you with different, proven tools to overcome speaking fears or concerns.

And master every basic of great speaking – for example in meetings – and/or presenting.

You can practise speaking to the group twice every week (as well as group discussion if you choose to engage).

Learn how to engage your audience

Combat anxiety, discomfort or nerves

Build confidence and comfort that lasts

Gain a competitive professional edge

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Who is the Confident Engaging Speaking Course for

This course is perfect if you need to:

  • Speak up at work, as employee or employer
  • Give a speech at a social event like a wedding
  • Be heard in meetings – or run them
  • Give presentations, talks or speeches
  • Be interviewed on podcasts or make videos
  • Conduct interviews effectively

 

And you’re reluctant, or just not as confident and engaging at speaking as you’d like.

Not a native English speaker? You’re welcome to join! Contact me if you’d like to discuss before booking.

What you’ll learn

The 3 main focus areas in the Confident Engaging Speaking Course:

Focus 1

Overcome fear and become more confident and comfortable

  • The 9 main causes of public speaking fear, and solutions for each one.
  • Specific physical tools to gain mind and body control without suppressing or fighting your system.
  • What to focus on to be competent and coherent ‘in the spotlight’
  • New ways to deal with or transform anxiety (it’s not “positive thinking”).
  • How to practise – the best ways to build belief and what not to do.

Focus 2

Create and organise your content quickly and easily

  • Get time-saving structures, templates and checklists to save future effort, energy and focus.
  • How to create clear messages FAST. Being clear is a challenge, this program gives you solutions.
  • Create ‘Alive’ content that gets attention and engages.
  • How to use humour effectively, even if you’re not naturally funny!
  • Starting and closing strongly and effectively.
  • Creating strong visuals/slide decks.

Focus 3

Deliver with high audience engagement

  • Conversational, authentic ways to deliver effectively.
  • Impromptu and prepared speaking opportunity each week, with tailored feedback & coaching.
  • How to keep your audience interested, and re-engaged if you lose them!
  • Using vocal variety (including ideas you probably haven’t heard before).
  • The two vital E’s of good presenting.
  • Should you tell a story? It depends. Find out why, and how to do it.

Ready to go?

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Confident Engaging Speaking details:
  • Friday mornings from 16 October – 20 November. 
  • Saturday mornings from 17 October – 21 November.

[Complete break on 30th and 31st for Melbourne Cup long weekend]

 

PLUS:

  • Suite of ‘Done for You’ templates and resources to make creating confident, engaging presentations or talks easy.
  • Videotape your talk each week to review later.
  • Worksheets each week to reinforce the learnings.
  • 1-Page Checklist in week 5 of all the exercises from the course.
  • Plus a bonus ‘Mind the Blanks’ video course FREE (usually $97):  short, digestible videos on how to avoid/deal with mind blanks or brain freeze.
 
Course fees and payment options:

Early Bird – upfront payment: $1,540 + GST.
[Available until midnight 4 October.]

Regular Investment: $1,980 + GST.

Prefer to spread the investment?

Pay in 4 fortnightly instalments of $467.50 (incl. GST).
Payments are billed every 2 weeks.

Click HERE to pay in 4 instalments.

The next intake after October will run in 2027:

  • Fridays 29 January – 26 February
  • Saturdays 30 January – 27 February

Book with 100% confidence

  • Money back guarantee in 1st session if it’s not for you (very unlikely!).
  • If you can’t make a session date, join another group that week.
  • I’ll also make sure you’re caught-up if you miss a week.
  • My goal: to ensure you get what you need from the program.

5 Week Confident Engaging Speaking Course

Learn a solid system to become a confident, engaging and clear communicator.

What my clients say

My story

I struggled hugely when I started speaking in public and was truly awful. Self- conscious, shaky, sometimes incoherent…with mind-blanks. (More on my story here).

So I decided to learn what works – to overcome my anxiety, and ultimately to speak with authority and presence.

And I’m not special: I just learned the right tools and practised. You can do this too.

What makes the Confident Engaging Speaking Course different?

  • Running for over 16 years
  • Continually updated for current best practice results
  • Consistently 5⭐️ feedback
  • An accelerated shortcut to excellence.
  • Learn through spaced repetition, how we learn best.
  • I’m with you all the way, totally committed to your success.

 

You can become a more confident, clear, connected and engaging speaker. Book now for the Confident Engaging Speaking Course.

I look forward to working with you.

120+ recommendations on LinkedIn here.

160+ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Google reviews here.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Friday mornings 16 October – 20 November.

OR

Saturday mornings 17 October – 21 November.

[with a complete break on 30th and 31st for Melbourne Cup long weekend]

2027 intake:

Friday mornings 29 January – 26 February.

OR

Saturday mornings 30 January – 27 February.

At the Quest Apartments conference room in Mont Albert, Melbourne Eastern suburbs (near Box Hill): 741 Whitehorse Road.

Early bird: $1,540 plus GST upfront payment.

OR pay 4 fortnightly instalments of $385 plus GST. (It doesn’t cost you any more to pay instalments.) And yes, you can pay over 8 weeks for a 5-week course!

Regular fee once the early bird expired: $1,980 plus GST

Or 4 fortnightly instalments of $495 plus GST

No problem. If you miss a week, you’ve got two options:

  1. You can join the other class running that week OR
  2. Be sent the teachings and worksheet to watch on video (worksheet pages with my voiceover) after the session.

You can book with 100% confidence: I offer a full refund, or transfer to the next course. Your choice.

The group is usually anything from 4 – 9 people.

Many participants in this course are not native English speakers, and are from all over the world: you’re welcome to join the course. If you’d like to discuss with Sarah first, contact her here.

The course runs every quarter: so, four times a year.

Yes. You’re welcome to do that and you can record my feedback as well. You don’t have to watch these – they can be great coaching tools. If unsure, ask me whether to watch them or not.

Yes, please ask if you’d like a certificate and a printable one will be sent to you.