Your Own Speaking Director!
For individuals and groups
If you have to speak or present, I can direct you. I direct business people, authors, stand-up comedians and more. I work with you to craft what you want to say, to structure your piece, shape stories and sharpen humour. And I direct your delivery so it lands with maximum impact.
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"I listened to the recording [of the session] loads and your calm direction got me through. They loved it!"
I directed this client in a talk she delivered at
Netflix in California (Ted Sarandos spoke after her!).
June 2024
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I deliver sessions in London, around the UK, internationally and on Zoom.
One day speaking workshop (pdf)
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What I Offer
Bespoke directing for individuals ahead of speeches, pitches and presentations.
Book a Session
Clients include:
voice coach Caroline Goyder and academic/ author Kieran Setiya plus corporate clients from PWC, Barclays and many academics and scientists.
Bespoke directing and training for companies on storytelling, pitching and presenting.
One day speaking workshop (pdf)
Clients include The&Partnership (London), Superheroes (Amsterdam), 180 Kingsday (Amsterdam), Allen & Overy (London)
Stand-up courses for creatives! Yes I run courses in agencies where everyone does a stand-up show in a comedy club.
More info
Clients include Lida, MRM Meteorite, McCann, Juice
What my Clients Say
I directed Kieran ahead of a book tour where he was speaking about his book "Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way".
And I directed Caroline Goyder on the content and delivery of her TEDx talk that now has over 10 million views.
One-to-One Sessions
I coach business professionals for corproate presentations and pitches, scientists for public engagement or entertainment talks, authors for book tour talks, all sorts of people for TEDx talks and similar lectures. And more! We can work on the script, the slide deck and the delivery on Zoom. I also offer in person rehearsal sessions.
FREE 15 mins Session
ON ZOOM This is an introductory chat for me to find out your needs and for us to discuss how I can help you. I will also offer some practical tips within this session too.
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BOOK
Speaking Session
ON ZOOM I help speakers in all sorts of contexts hone their message and their delivery, including business presentations, science talks, book tours and TEDx talks. You can send me script/video in advance.
Hour session:
£95 (corporate rate)
BOOK
£75 (other speakers)
Rehearsal Session
IN PERSON If you want even closer attention to your delivery with a rehearsal in person, I can book sessions in London or Stroud, Glos. I can also come to you. Please contact me to discuss.
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CONTACT
Django Weisz (Superheroes agency, Amsterdam)
"The sessions with Chris were really inspiring. Chris managed to create a safe setting so people could really engage and participate in the assignments without hesitation. We learned how to break with the usual way of making and doing presentations and received some very good tools to improve the way of presenting. On top of this the sessions were really good for team building."
Victoria Fox, CEO at LIDA (M&C Saatchi)
"At LIDA we have been engaging Chris Head to run his stand-up comedy course. Ten people from across the agency, across a wide range of disciplines and levels sign up. I can honestly say it is a truly brilliant course that I couldn’t recommend highly enough. Its fantastic for the individual - building confidence, self awareness and presentation skills. It's brilliant team building for the team that sign up each year and it is culturally part of our LIDA DNA now. The course culminates in a show. A night the whole agency gets behind and looks forward to. The best value for money training. Chris is simply brilliant.”
Simon Devereux,
Bank Paribas, Amsterdam
“We are an international team of portfolio managers. For our annual team meeting Chris gave us a day completely filled with funny exercises, good discussions on dos and don'ts when speaking for clients and some nice examples of a few of the best stand-up comedians out there. We really enjoyed the way he taught us how to handle hecklers and the course certainly helped us to get to know a lot more about each other. Therefore the team building targets were certainly met and we will also be much better equipped the next time we'll be presenting in front of our clients.”
FOR ADVERTISING AGENCIES
(AND OTHER BOLD, CREATIVE BUSINESSES)
Six sessions and a show in a comedy club for friends, colleagues and family!
FULL INFO (PDF)
The Stand-up Course!
I take your team through the process of finding their comedy voice, writing material and performing it so it works. Incredible speaking skills guaranteed.
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OUTCOMES AS REPORTED BY LIDA TEAM
• Improved self-confidence
• Aware of my delivery style in presentations, in meetings, even with my mates!
• Discover your real personality and how you can use it to your professional benefit.
• New friends guaranteed
• No corporate ‘team building’ bollocks can even come close - comradery experienced on a whole new level
• A tremendous sense of achievement and gratitude to the agency for investing in that feeling.
• An unforced, un-corporate learning environment
• The feeling of being in an elite club belonging to those who had the balls to do it
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CHECK OUT THE END OF COURSE GIG WITH THE TEAM FROM MCCAN LONDON!
"Chris himself was inspiring, really knew his stuff and engaged all of us (even the more reluctant among us) from the word go." "He got to know us all personally and encouraged us to build on our strengths rather than fashioning a particular style." "The buzz of actually getting up on stage was amazing and brought me closer to colleagues that I may otherwise not have gotten the chance to meet."
LIDA, Stand-up Student
