Presentation Skills & Keynotes

Make Memorable Presentations & Present Like a Pro

Are you an executive or an entrepreneur, a manager or a product owner? Then you already know how important it is to make your message stick when presenting a new idea, program or process.

Whether in casual conversations with your team, pitching an idea to the CEO or a prospective client, or addressing an audience, this program will help you speak with confidence and communicate with impact. Articulate and “sell” your great ideas with confidence after this engaging, experiential workshop.

Implementation, however, is a more complicated matter. That’s why we created a fun and interactive way to make it pain-free.

This training will teach you to:

  • Empathize with and respond to your audience
  • Prepare for unexpected moments
  • Be the expert
  • Actively listen
  • Develop your message
  • Make your slide deck work with your presentation
  • Match your body language and voice to your message
  • Create a story and visual narrative that is uniquely your own
  • Become an Effective Communicator

The Improv Effect would like to offer you this FUNtastic approach to presenting like a professional. Explore and practice the skills that separate good presenters from excellent ones.

Depending on your needs – one­-on-­one coaching, on-­line video web series or team sessions about broad fundamentals or a specific presentation—we have a training program that is formatted perfectly for you.

 

Keynote Speaker

Let us help you take your conference up a notch with our INTERACTIVE, COLLABORATIVE, AND AUDIENCE-IMMERSIVE keynotes. Our speakers have given talks worldwide at conferences that span many industries and themes.

TOPICS INCLUDE:
Unlearning: The Challenge of Change
 Consciously Curious: Why Curiosity is the Key to Success
 It’s all a Matter of Perspective: Using Play to Solve Problems
Individuals, Interactions & Improvisation: Agility in Thinking, Team, and Problem-Solving
Talk the talk: How to Give Dynamic Presentations
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The Workshop Will Focus on the Following Skills

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Keynote Speaker

Authentic Communication

  • Finding your voice and style
  • Unleashing your creativity
  • Developing your self-awareness (what does the audience think of you?)
  • Avoiding being fake
  • Presentation as a conversation
  • Active listening and being in the moment
  • Dealing with failed presentation attempts

Being the Expert

  • Making a great first impression
  • Overcoming the fear of failure
  • Projecting confidence in any situation
  • Controlling your body language and vocal tonality
  • Commanding the stage: what it is and how you can develop it
  • Adding emotion to your speech (without overdoing it)

Impromptu Speaking

  • Thinking on the spot
  • Developing creative ideas in the moment
  • Adapting to your audience
  • Dealing with the unexpected with ease
  • Handle Q&A without getting flustered

Power Dynamics & Status

  • Understanding power, control and letting go (status is determined by what we do—not what we are)
  • Adjusting the dynamics to influence others
  • Using power dynamics to empower your team
  • Playing the missing piece to get what you want
  • Recognizing your natural (preferred) status
  • Building trust by equalizing status
  • Reading body language

*Optional one-on-one coaching combined with group training is available. Presentation skills training offered worldwide.

  • Our team enjoyed the departure from our standard business presentations, and became really engaged in how the presentation skills concepts played out in some humorous ‘real-life’ scenarios. A positive and fun way to get the themes across.

    Trent Gavazzi Vice President and CTO of Availity, LLC

  • I will be able to read people better, listen more and think better on my feet. Jessie made Improv fun and I will definitely be able to apply these concepts professionally.

    Jason Seifer Web Developer at Twistedmind Inc.

  • We had a great time! You did a great job and I recommend this program especially for organizations that need to let their hair down and get to know each other.

    Steven Balukoff CTO Blue Box Group LLC

  • It was a great workshop! One of the best we’ve had in our 15 years at Aerostar!

    Dawn Blackledge Principal Engineer - Aerostar Environmental Services

  • Jessie brings about change to a group with humor, humility, and fun. Jessie conducts her session hubris free, and failure free. Because every failure you feel is merely an opportunity to laugh and grow. What a painless way to address some of the harder to break habits, and behaviors. Thanks for all that you have taught us, and the change you help bring about.

    Chef K Tyson Foods

  • The Improv Effect is an excellent way to build teamwork within any organization.

    Gust G. Sarris, M.B.A. J.D. Attorney At Law

  • Jessie has provided her Influential Communications improv workshop to our Summer interns here at the PGA TOUR for the past few years. Every year our interns walk away from her session raving about how much they have learned and what they have taken away from it. She has them engaged from the start, and by the end of the workshop, they are eager to go out into the world and use the important communication tools Jessie has just taught them. Jessie is great at what she does and we will continue to use her services in the future.

    PGA Tour Marketing

  • It was just perfect and I know everyone enjoyed it. As you know, humor goes a long way in helping to ease anxiety, stress, depression and pain, and we are all candidates for all of the mentioned.

    Anne Multiple Myeloma Group Jacksonville

  • Great exercises around creative thinking and collaboration. More creative thinking can add great value to the product and the company as a whole.

    Software Developer Pipedrive

  • The Improv Effect tied team-building, brainstorming, communication skills and creativity all in the same session that helped us move forward more strategically with our initiative

    Director of Development & Community Relations Visit Jacksonville