Mindful Presenter Ltd

15/08/2026

07/08/2026

In twenty years of coaching people to present, the biggest shift I ever see is the moment someone stops delivering information and starts telling a story.

What surprises most of them is that it requires no invention at all. They are already sitting on more material than they realise: a decision that was difficult at the time, a moment they challenged the way things were done, the reason they started in the first place. The skill is simply in noticing it, and then choosing the one that carries the message.

I’ve put the essentials onto a single page: why stories work, seven types worth keeping in your back pocket, and a straightforward structure for building one of your own.

I’d be interested to know which of the seven you find yourself using most.

https://mindfulpresenter.com/stories-high-impact-presenting/

06/08/2026

I don't think any of us ever really stop performing when we stand up to present at work, and I'm not sure we're meant to. What I do think is that most of the time we've no idea we're doing it.

We're too busy getting through it, thinking about the next slide or the time or the question we're dreading, to notice which version of ourselves has walked into the room. It's almost always the professional one, built up over years of meetings and appraisals, and by now so automatic that we've stopped noticing how much of us it leaves out.

Many of the people I coach are warm, funny and thoughtful in the corridor beforehand, and then something happens on the way through the door and a lot of that gets left outside.

Nearly all of my work is helping people bring it back in with them.

I'd be curious to know if that's been your experience, or if yours has been different.

05/08/2026

Why Public Speaking Feels So Difficult and What People Worldwide Are Truly Struggling With

https://mindfulpresenter.com/why-public-speaking-feels-hard/

04/08/2026

Most people don't fear public speaking because they lack skill.

We fear it because the moment we stand up, we start trading ourselves for a performance. A little performance is natural; every audience expects it, but when there's nothing left underneath it, a room can always tell.

On Thursday 3 September, I'm running a one-day workshop in the City of London for people who are ready to change that.

Not to hand you a bag of tricks, but to help you speak with clarity, confidence and impact as your best self, and to connect with a room instead of performing at it.

In one day, in a deliberately small group, you'll learn to:

— steady your nerves and think clearly under pressure
— shape a message people actually remember
— hold a room with your voice, presence and body language
— speak with the quiet confidence that comes from being fully yourself

Spaces are limited, so everyone gets real individual attention.

Thursday 3 September, 9:30 am–5:30 pm

The Novello Room, Octagon Point, Cheapside, London EC2

Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-impact-public-speaking-one-day-workshop-tickets-1983074143145

Because people won't remember how impressive you were. They'll remember how you made them feel.

03/08/2026

The Presenter You Think You Are, And The One Your Audience Sees

https://mindfulpresenter.com/the-presenter-you-think-you-are-and-the-one-your-audience-sees/

Your presentation style feedback result shows how you see yourself. Ask three colleagues to answer it about you and find out how you actually come across.

22/07/2026

04/07/2026

5 Essential Public Speaking Tips to Wow Your Audience

https://mindfulpresenter.com/5-essential-public-speaking-tips-to-wow-your-audience/

Five public speaking tips that actually work, from tailoring your message to managing nerves in the moment. Practical techniques you can use in your next presentation.

03/07/2026

Why Your Audience Can't Hear You Anymore

Engagement isn't a mood the audience brings with them, and either extends to you or withholds. It's something you have to build, actively, from the front of the room, against a backdrop of people who are tired, interrupted, and running on far less spare attention than they used to have.

https://mindfulpresenter.com/communication-overload-public-speaking/

New Microsoft and Gallup research reveals the scale of communication overload in today's workplace — and what it means for how you structure a talk to be heard.

29/06/2026

Earning the Room: A Smarter Way to Design Client Conferences and Summits

https://mindfulpresenter.com/client-conference/

A practical framework for planning a client conference that builds trust instead of just filling an agenda. Six keys, real examples, no jargon.