I Will HELP YOU
Confidently leverage key elements of linguistics, behaviour, psychology and memory science to ensure your communication is effective, congruent, and provides the necessary influence for the response you need from your audience.
THis could be
for your spoken communications like presentations; job interviews, keynote speeches, meetings, etc…
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In your written communications like website content and advertising copy; corporate materials, articles, press-releases and more.
eFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is vital
Because your communication affects emotion, emotion affects behaviour, and behaviour affects outcomes.
Outcomes, as you know, determine success.
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STRIVE
to enable people just like you to communicate complex ideas through simple, memorable messages that influence audiences and achieve desired outcomes.
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I have personally trained and coached over two-thousand professionals in effective presentations and communication over the last twelve years; ensuring their planning, design, and delivery achieve the desired outcome.
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I apply and teach fundamentals and techniques from effective communication, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and Neuro Linguistic Programming in all areas of my work, to help you achieve the necessary audience connection and influence regardless of whether English is your first language.
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Private and public sector clients around the world continue to trust me with their spoken and written communications and English language training, because they understand that details matter and high-level performance demands high-level dedication.
“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
SERVICES
SPOKEN
PRESENTATION TRAINING
Hands-on training for you to learn how to plan, prepare, and deliver goal-driven presentations that are enaging, persuassive, and above all effective.
You'll develop verbal and non-verbal linguistics knowledge and skills, NLP anchoring techniques, and much more that you'll cement through trainee-centric activities and video feedback review.
PUBLIC SPEAKING COACHING
Prepare for event-specific presentations and public speaking engagements.
Learn to manage event-based nerves and public speaking anxieties; define your specific objectives and craft your content and delivery to ensure you achieve the desired outcome.
Whether you’re speaking at a conference, defending your thesis, presenting at the AGM, accepting an award or toasting the groom, I’ll get you ready and you’ll get the credit.
Public speaking coaching often also contains various elements of training, speechwriting and content adaption and is designed to meet your requirements.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Feel free to get in touch now to identify your general and specific needs, so that I can present you with the right strategy, bespoke workshops, and/or coaching options for you.
WRITTEN
SPEECH WRITING
Prepare for event-specific presentations and public speaking engagements.
We’ll understand your audience then define the details and objectives of the message together so that I can write your content for you.
Alternatively, we can write your speech collaboratively and I’ll train you in ways to make your content more persuasive; more memorable, and much more likely to get the audience to act, whether your objective is for them to do something, feel something, or whatever.
COPYWRITING
I’ll quickly help you define the details and objectives of your message and understand the best tone of voice to reach your audience, if you don’t have one established that is, before getting to work on some beautifully crafted copy.
Clients have entrusted me with the copy for their articles, brochures, websites, adverts, press-releases, and much more.
PROOFREADING & EDITING
Ensuring that your content is grammatically sound and free from typos and spelling mistakes is of course important for the professional image of your brand, and your can be sure that I have years of experience and a fine-toothed comb at the ready.
Nevertheless, those are the basics, and the true value here is ensuring your text and writing style is consistent and congruent, so that it’s comfortable for your audience to read and achieves your intended outcome.
I have proofread, edited and corrected documents for private clients as well as professional and public institutions. I work with the utmost discretion and am always happy to sign an NDA (confidentiality agreement) for your comfort.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING
You may speak English, but are you truly able to work and operate to the high professional standard you could in your native language?
My ongoing English language training and intensive courses blend proprietary EFL methodology and materials with Effective Communication training to ensure you can deliver the results you need.
Directors, Executives, professionals and public sector employees have trusted me to get them up to standard for over twelve years through my language academy in Madrid, and you can now do the same with me personally via video.
Let’s define your specific needs so that I can design your course and we can drive your English on together.
All exercises are spoken and didactic, and backed up by my own interactive Effective English online platform that features over two-and-a-half thousand exercises.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“I have used Russell's service for my first conference presentation. Russ pointed out ways I can rationalise and manage my fears and nerves of public speaking. he helped me tremendously.”
- Ahmad Salih | Director of Strategy / Chief of Staff at Abdul Razzaq Abdul Hameed Al-Sane & Sons Group Co
“His methodology is very structured and efficient and not only helps you with your English language abilities but also improves your communication skills, being more effective and enabling you to operate to the high professional standard.
Highly recommended!”
-David Villalba | Senior Director Operations & Strategy at Bristol Myers Squibb
“Just wanted to say thank you for coming to visit us on Saturday and to deliver such a great talk. I have spoken with many of the consultants since and some have even gone so far as to say that it was the best guest speaker event that they had attended!”
— William Hinkley | General Manager at Freshsight
“I reached out to Russ to look over an article I had written, which was far too wordy. Russ took the time to understand what my core message was and why it mattered to me. The outcome was a clear and streamlined article that was easy to read and be understood by those new to the subject.”
— Naomi Trentham | Founder at Mitos.work
“Russ is a great professional with a very good attitude. He has an excellent method for his one-to-one sessions, identifying at the beginning your weaknesses and your goals. He will focus to improve all those aspects and adapts to the trainees needs.”
- Jose Fernandez Pizarro | Digital Processes & Planning/QA Manager at Orange Digital & Process Automation
“Russell’s course is not about telling you what to do. Rather, it invites you to take an honest (and sometimes unsettling) look at your own presentation skills and identify things you’d like to improve. He then provides you with the tools to achieve that, and to keep improving in the future.”
— Remco Loos | Principle Scientist at CITRE/BMS
“Thank you very much for this amazing course. I feel like I’ve learnt more in two days about how to give an effective presentation to impact the audience than in all my academic and professional life.”
— Diego Sobradillo Luengo | Postdoctoral fellow at CITRE/BMS
“I worked with Russ to prepare a cinematographic project presentation which I delivered for large group of people. Russ is a great professional who I recommend 100%. Working with him really gets you hooked, in the best sense of the word.”
— Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo | Producer at Tourmalet Films
“Russ is a dedicated teacher who is very focussed on his students’ progress. His methodology is very structured and very efficient. I’ve advanced a lot and am very happy with the results. 100% recommended.”
-Rafael Carballo Gris | Marketing & Sales Director - CNBS Business Unit at Exeltis Spain
“Your message only truly holds value if the members of your audience understand your key message, remember it, and know what to do with your information.”