You are truly alone only twice - when you die and when you stand up and make a speech. All the more so if you are in front an AGM packed with shareholders.

It could take 20 years to get your place at this table - and just 20 minutes to lose it!

You know how lonely it can be at the top. Sharing ideas with colleagues, subordinates or superiors can be fatal. Politics-free, disinterested honest feedback is rare and unlikely. Asking for it is seen as weak.

Imagine having someone in your corner. Someone who had studied the secrets of Crafting Killer Messages for over 15 years. Someone with over 23 000 hours working with serious players - including blue chip C-Suite clients - thinking through strategy, honing messages, preparing pitches, presentations or speeches.

Discreet, independent, robustly honest outside advice on tap. Many people just like you have discovered it can make all the difference - whether it be a strategy session, a focus day, a retreat weekend or just a quick phone call.

It might have taken you 20 years or more to attain your position - a bad presentation, pitch or decision could lose you that position in 20 minutes. 

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Many presentation "coaches" have no training qualifications or real world business experience.

Professionally trained (with over 23 000 hours experience) I also have real world P & L experience.

Sent in initially as a Crisis Manager in 1996, I was appointed Group Prokurist of a German manufacturing group with 400 staff and £75 million turnover.

I was subsequently appointed MD of an ailing subsidiary group in the former East Germany with over 130 staff, ca. £8 million turnover, 2 sites and losses of over £1 million. Due to onerous conditions imposed by the Treuhand which had sold the formerly cooperatively owned companies, redundancies were effectively prohibited. Closing the companies was not an option as it would have triggered enormous penalties based on the conditions of purchase from the Treuhand.

Within 18 months, by reducing Cost of Sales from 56% to 47%, improving unit margins, bypassing sales intermediaries and developing an in-house sales team, losses were reduced by 90%+ to ca. £100 000. In the following 18 months I prepared the 3 companies for sale, 2 of these companies were sold as going concerns and one as an asset sale.

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Presentation and communications clients include: Bilfinger & Berger, Mercedes, SAP, Thyssen Krupp.