What is presentation training?
Presentation training is a structured, coached practice that improves how you organize and deliver information to any audience, from one hiring manager to a thousand people, using repeatable frameworks plus recorded exercises, playback, and critique.
Presentation training is coached, structured practice for delivering ideas to an audience. That audience might be a single hiring manager, a boardroom, or a thousand people at a conference. The goal is the same: organize your material so it lands, and deliver it so people stay with you and act.
What good programs actually do
The best presentation training combines two things that most people never get together: repeatable frameworks for structuring a talk, and video-recorded exercises with playback and critique. Seeing yourself on video is the fastest way to improve, because you stop guessing how you come across and start watching yourself get better in real time.
Who it is for
- Executives preparing for board meetings, all-hands, or investor updates.
- Founders and leaders pitching for funding or buy-in.
- Experts stepping onto conference stages or into keynotes.
- Anyone whose next opportunity depends on how well they present.
Presentation Skills Training: How It Differs From a Tips Video
Tips are throwaways. A tips video hands you a list of things to try and moves on. Presentation skills training is a different category entirely: it is training for high-stakes presentation situations, custom fit to you, not a generic list. That could mean speaking to prospects, clients, investors, stakeholders, colleagues, or your own boss. Public speaking is what children are taught so they have basic skills for the world. Presentation skills training, or leadership presentation skills training, is focused in on your sector and your actual situation, and that focus is the difference between solving your problem and merely having a vague idea of what your problem is.
The Non-Negotiable: 8 to 10 Recorded Practice Sessions in a Day
One thing about presentation skills training is not negotiable: how many times you actually practice during the session. In an 8-hour training day, our clients get between 8 and 10 practice sessions, each one recorded, played back, and given guided coaching. That is the mechanism that separates presentation skills training from a lecture with a slide deck. A tips video cannot record you, cannot play it back, and cannot coach you through the correction. Presentation skills training can, and that loop, present, watch, get corrected, present again, is where the actual change happens.
Jess Todtfeld came to this work after 13 years as a television producer at NBC, ABC, and FOX, where he prepped thousands of guests to perform under pressure. That is the same lens he brings to keynotes, pitches, and high-stakes internal presentations.