Want to be Better at Public Speaking - How Can a Coach Help?

Jenny Garrett OBE is a globally recognised authority on leadership, talent, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), with two decades of experience guiding organisations through complex transformation. Her journey from humble beginnings to a celebrated leader demonstrates how tenacity and hard work can surpass expectations.Her award-winning consultancy, Jenny Garrett Global, delivers highly impactful solutions for clients worldwide. Jenny's clear social mission is to support underrepresented staff in breaking through the glass ceiling and creating inclusive workplaces. She has taken thousands through her talent programme, with over 35% consistently achieving promotion.Jenny is the author of "Equality vs Equity"and "Rocking Your Role"], and co-hosts the "AI For Equity" podcast. Her work is built on Inclusive Leadership, Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Humanising AI Adoption. An unparalleled expert in coaching, leadership, and training, Jenny advises senior executives to drive tangible results and foster equitable cultures.Awarded an OBE in 2021 for services to Entrepreneurship and Women in Business ], Jenny is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs and a 'Companion' of the Institute of Leadership and Management. Her prestigious client list includes MasterCard, Lloyds Bank, and the NHS. Jenny also advocates for inclusive policies and created the first UK directory connecting ethnically diverse coaches with corporates.

Jenny Garrett OBE

Learn how to become a better public speaker from how to structure your talk,  to how to come across well and engage your audience.

Of the things people most, fear public speaking is consistently listed in the top 3
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It’s clear that great orators and storytellers are highly successful in the world of work and beyond.
Is your fear of public speaking holding back your career? Or holding you back from opportunities?
Do your nerves get the better of you? Do you shy away from public speaking for fear of coming across badly? Do you find it difficult to structure what you have to say? 
Our panel of executive coaches, all listed the diverse executive coach directory, will share their top tips for speaking success – from tailoring your messages to suit your audience, to structuring your talk and delivering it confidently. **Tickets are free. However we'd be delighted if you would like to make a donation to <a href="http://rockingurteens.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rocking Ur Teens CiC</a>, a social enterprise that inspires teens and increases their aspirations.**Your Host: Jenny Garrett - Leadership Development Consultant

Jenny Garrett is a Leadership Development Consultant, specialising in executive coaching, facilitation and research in the area of leadership and change. She is experienced facilitator of programmes for Managers, Directors and CEOs from a variety of organisations, including private and public sector.Prior to this she held senior Marketing Roles for organisations such as Ashridge Business School, Hamptons International and Schroder Leasing.Jenny’s specialist areas include:<ul><li>Diversity – ‘no longer counting people, but making people count’, exploring and appreciating difference, culture and beliefs to provide the best organisational solutions.</li><li>Leadership Coaching – providing the challenge and support that can be missing for executives at the most senior levels of an organisation to keep them on track.</li><li>Team Performance – through team coaching, enabling improved lines of communication, increased self-awareness and an understanding of others perceptions.</li></ul>Jenny has a Masters Degree MA (Management Learning &amp; Leadership) Lancaster University. BA Honours Business, University of Westminster and Coaching Qualifications with Ashridge Business School and Lancaster University. She has the highest honorary award of ‘ Companion’ from the Institute of Leadership and Management.Speakers:Carol Stewart – Career &amp; Leadership Coach

Carol helps quiet women to be influential and impactful leaders.Known as The Coach for High Achieving Introverted Women, Carol is an Executive, Career and Business Coach, founder of Abounding Solutions, and author of Quietly Visible: Leading with Influence and Impact as an Introverted Woman. She has over 28 years coaching and leadership experience and helps women (with a particular emphasis on introverted women) to be great leaders, and to lead with influence and impact. Carol also provides workshops, training and talks to corporate gender networks and BAME networks on career development, personal development, and leadership development, and is a leadership team facilitator.She provides coaching, training and talks to organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Asurion, Department of Health, NHS England, NHS London, Westminster City Council, Crown Prosecution Service, Metropolitan Police Service, London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Waltham Forest, London Borough of Lambeth, National Association of African Americans in Human Resources and more, she is listed coach on the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales) Women in Leadership Programme, as well as coaching private clients.Carol was named one of Britain’s Top 50 Business Advisers in 2015 by Enterprise Nation; a LinkedIn Top Voice UK in 2017, 2018 and 2019; a We Are The City Rising Stars Champion in 2018 for her work helping women to develop in their careers, and listed as one of Britain’s inspirational Christian women making major impact by Keep the Faith Magazine in 2019.Prior to starting her business, Carol worked for the Ministry of Justice. Starting in one of the most junior roles, she progressed to a senior role with responsibility for the operation of a group of magistrates’ courts where she was also a member of the Local Criminal Justice Board for four London boroughs.In 2019, Carol co-founded Northern Women of Colour and held an International Women’s Day conference in Sheffield (her home town) for BAME women in the North of England. This came about as a result of there being a lack of opportunities for BAME women in the North, and a lack of such events up there to support them. Empowerment and developmental events for BAME women tend to be London centric.The first conference was well received, and gained a lot of media attention, which resulted in Carol being interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield, featured in The Sheffield Star (a daily Sheffield newspaper) and becoming a semi regular columnist for the Sheffield Telegraph. Following the success of the 2019 conference, it became an annual event.Carol is a semi regular columnist for the Sheffield Telegraph, a weekly newspaper established in 1855, and has also written for several other publications. She volunteers her time mentoring women business owners in developing countries for the Cherie Blair Foundation, volunteers for a youth charity (having previously been Chair of the Board of Trustees), is a school governor, and leads the Marketplace Ministry at my church.Carol's book Quietly Visible: Leading with Influence and Impact as an Introverted Woman was published in January 2020.Geetha Ramachandran – Executive &amp; Leadership Coach

Geetha is an accredited Leadership Transformation Coach and Executive Coach, helping senior leaders and managers become the best version of themselves.Geetha is accredited with the International Coaching Federation and works with senior leaders (senior execs, execs, vice presidents, directors, head of departments) and managers, both experienced and new to leadership roles. She helps enable individual leadership skills and presence and can also help tap the intelligence available in collective leadership and the power of teams.As a Coach, she believes that the Coachee innately knows what to do, and she helps them uncover this through powerful coaching techniques. This creates authentic leadership and transformation (an ability to see things from a different perspective) which has a long term effect. This also helps leaders achieve exponential success in their goals.She has 20+ years experience working within organisations and held senior management positions before specialising as a Coach. She trained with Barefoot Coaching UK in their post-graduate program in Personal &amp; Business Coaching and has had additional training in Systemic Constellations, Organisational Relationship Systems, Transactional Analysis and Psychology. She is also an Agile Practitioner and a Change Management Practitioner. She is qualified to run the “Leadership Circle Profile”, a 360 profile instrument for senior leaders, that helps them understand their leadership potential utilisation and effectiveness in a safe space (the profile report also provides percentile scores using a global norm base of senior leaders).Working with HR and L&amp;D at a global corporate, in 2020 Geetha received an NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 100 for a 6-month leadership coaching program. She also received the “Telegraph Woman of the Year” award in 2018 for organisational transformation and “Made a Difference” award at Acumen Commercial Insights in 2014 for team transformation. Geetha has worked with leaders and teams in different cultures and countries.She is the Founder and Director of Powerfully Human Coaching and Consultancy Ltd.Joseph Ogbonna – Leadership Coach

Joseph is a London-based versatile, experienced coach, with excellent supporting skills in strategic thinking, accessing inner wisdom, mindfulness, organisational development, project and programme management. These skills are available for supporting leaders and aspiring leaders to achieve success in a range of public and private sector organisations. He has a special interest in working with people of Black heritage, who he believes have much more to offer to employers and to society by trusting their inner wisdom.Working through Ruuvand Ltd, he receives clients from a belief in infinite possibility, the client’s and his. This belief has come from experimentation in his career, studies, sport and life. He employs curiosity and listening as his core tools to trigger mindset shifts, unlock insights, solutions and challenges. This is because he has discovered that “Who you are being” is often the key to success in any situation. Joseph’s presence is experienced as calming. He forms a true partnership with the clarity that here, the client has the larger stake and is encouraged to embrace this fact, however daunting. His full commitment is devoted to the client’s success and beyond. He builds rapport quickly and remains light but challenging in conversations to help keep clients on track and to stretch.Strategic thinking with clear purpose comes naturally to Joseph and has been especially useful in being a sounding-board for clients, in his management and non-executive Board roles during the past 18 years. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the British Acupuncture Council where he leads on Supervision and Mentoring. With a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Business Administration, he led organisational development projects and taught Strategy at Masters level in Middlesex Business School. Seeing a meeting point between strategy and coaching, he developed a set of “Strategic leadership cards” as a tool for leadership teams to enhance individual and collective strategic thinking and wisdom.Sasi Panchal - Executive &amp; Leadership Coach

Sasi supports individuals to develop sustainable behavioural change through neuroscience based leadership coaching.Prior to setting up and launching her Coaching and Consultancy Company, she worked for 20+ years in the pharmaceutical industry, where she led diverse global teams to successfully deliver R&amp;D change projects.It was during delivery of a major change programme that Sasi experienced coaching and it’s transformational impact not only on my leadership performance but also on my teams’ performance. She was hooked and so the journey as a coach began and continues as she extends her coaching capabilities in pursuit of serving her clients to reach their true potential. Her coaching supports clients in public sector, corporate and Higher Education.Over the last decade Sasi has specialised in coaching individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds on corporate leadership development programmes with the aim of accelerating and progressing individuals from diverse backgrounds through the talent pipeline.As a licensed Practitioner in Psychological Safety, Sasi is able to coach and mentor individuals and organisations to build trust, increase engagement and performance by engaging diverse perspectives and creating inclusive solutions.As a Practitioner in Applied Neuroscience, she integrates brain-based behavioural change techniques to support clients to create sustainable change.Sasi holds an M.A. (DIST) in Leadership from Henley Business School and won the coveted Henley School Prize in 2018. As Visiting Lecturer, she teaches Coaching and Mentoring Skills to leaders and supervise MA students. Sasi also facilitates action learning, which supports leaders to reflect on their leadership practise and develop solutions to complex and ambiguous organisational challenges.She is co-author of a peer-reviewed research paper in The Coaching Psychologist culminating in a novel behavioural coaching model (GROWS Model, Panchal &amp; Riddell, 2020).Her clients describe her coaching style as respectful, compassionate and authentic. The coaching sessions as thought-provoking, persistent but without threat and enabling clients to bring their whole self to work and life by tapping into their purpose, values and beliefs.

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