In the spotlight, you can feel…
Comfortable | Powerful | Adaptable | Persuasive | Fun
Pitches. Speeches. Demos. Conferences.
Leaders. Managers. Contributors. Teams.
We all have a voice. The spotlight helps us find it.
Spotlight Leadership
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Work with Aaron to overcome fears, grow performance skills, and/or shape your unique voice and style. Spotlight Leadership coaching is tailored to your specific wants, needs, and context, and can be shaped for keynotes, pitches, demos, or conference presentations. It can also be used to tackle problems of structure or content. And it’s for everyone: from founders and C-suite executives to project managers and data analysts.
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Level-up your team as a team. These public speaking and pitching workshops are modeled after acting studios and conservatory programs. They’re designed to give every team member a real-live audience to work with, while building skill both for the person in the spotlight, and their teammates in the audience.
Witnessing each other in a coaching context will teach individual how to coach themselves and how to coach others, while simultaneously cultivating trust and vulnerability among teammates—crucial for fostering success on high-performing teams.
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Instead of attacking public speaking head-on as a technical challenge, these improv classes aim to build far-reaching presentation skills: comfort and ease in the spotlight, and the ability to ditch your deck or your script in order to adapt to your audience and what’s happening in the room.
In addition to offering fundamentals found in traditional American improv classes, these workshops draw on advanced European theater techniques to form an intimate bond between the speaker and their audience, as well as to shift the focus of presentation out of our heads and into our bodies. You won’t find these techniques in any other corporate public speaking program.
Like Team Workshops, these programs bring your whole team together to grow as a unit, cultivating trust, vulnerability, and creativity—all crucial for fostering success on high-performing teams.
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Coaching for writers, speakers, and presenters who are looking to simplify and/or clarify STEM topics for diverse audiences and the general public.
Learn more about STEM Communication Coaching.
Train like an actor. Speak like a leader.
Actors don’t just learn to survive in front of a crowd—they learn to thrive there. Not just for this one performance, but for every performance. They learn both to build their own style of performance and to adapt to different media, different audiences, different shows with different objectives.
Your coach is an actor, director, and a university acting instructor for graduate-level students who’s worked with performers from coast to coast and in three countries, on more than 25 theater productions.
You’ll learn to get out of your head and build out your voice, to design the audience experience of your speeches, keynotes, pitches or presentations—and to stay open and flexible even when you’ve got a script.
Craft your one-of-a-kind voice.
Break past the one-size-fits-all approach of public speaking coaches. Find your voice and your style with coaching built to suit your needs, your context, and your audience.
Do you want to come across as buttoned up or casual? Over-prepared or easy-breezy? What’s your natural persona? Do we want to push back against it or lean into it?
And what about your audience? Whom are you trying to persuade, to do what? What does your audience expect and how will they feel if they get something different?
Together, we’ll bypass your coach’s assumptions and preferences to craft the approach that best-suits your personal wants and needs.
Lead for a lifetime.
Usually there’s one upcoming speech or pitch that inspires a leader to pursue spotlight coaching. But true success isn’t about getting you ready for one moment of spotlight leadership, it’s about getting you ready for a lifetime of them.
This approach to public speaking training coaches you to coach yourself—and others. It gives you the tools to evaluate your own performance, give yourself notes, and iterate rapidly. It also trains you to bring deep inquiry to every keynote, every speech, every pitch, always designing your approach to suit your context and your audience.
Don’t settle for merely surviving this next moment in the spotlight. Grow toward a lifetime in the spotlight.