“Selling Yourself and Your Ideas with Winning Presentations." Proven tips for presentations success.
“Making Sure PowerPoint Helps, not Hinders, Your Presentations.” Enough of overloaded graphics and boring bullets – more presentations that communicate, sell, and win.
"Adding to Your Success with Timeless Tips from the Bard of Avon.” Applying valuable and surprisingly-relevant insights from Say It Like Shakespeare.
"Politics & Persuasion: from Campaign Trail to Conference Room.” Tips from politicians hits and misses. Highly entertaining and relevant program about politicians hits and misses and what business presenters can learn from them.
“Perils of the Platform, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Podium.” Lessons-learned from embarrassing, expensive, and much too frequent snafus during speeches and presentations (also called intrusions of Murphy’s Law).
"Yes Techies Can Talk... and Sometimes Even Sell." Transforming engineers and scientists from boring to lively and successful presenters.
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Here's what sponsors have reported about Tom Leech Winning Conference Programs:
"(Your Keynote Speech) set the tone for the meeting -- everyone thoroughly enjoyed your presentitons.. You certainly contributed to a successful conference."
Dr. Jackie Hartman. ABC (Association of Business Communication)
"Your stimulating workshop was well received. (Our Director) promised it would be great; you didn't disappoint us." Joseph Lillie, Chair, Prof. Activities Conference, IEEE-USA
"Your presentation was a success. Many people told me how much they enjoyed your session."
David Kull, Conference Coordinator, Toastmasters Annual Convention
"Excellent overview of many of the things you rarely think of when giving a presentation. They can make a big difference." (Sales Team Annual Conference)
Rick Lober, GM/Sr VP, Cubic Defense Application, Inc.
"Initially I attended Tom's Winning Presentations course over 20 years ago. To this day whenever I am putting together a presentation I go back and pull from those two days of training. It was quite a pleasure to attend Tom's recent refresher course and see all of the new tips he had come up with. He definitely keeps it fresh." Greg Kaps, Director Marketing, Moog A/C
"The techniques, advice, approaches, and suggestions provided in your session proved to be most valuable to our staff. The lessons learned from your past experiences really put an exclamation point on the value of doing it right. Keep up the good work as we continue to use your services throughout our entire organization."
Ron Chu, President, Tech Support Services Group, Tetra Tech, Inc.
"His program appealed to all. Our visitors from the United Kingdom and Germany found Leech's quick guidelines and timely tips especially helpful; neither had seen similar tips from any resources in their countries. As a result, I'm pleased to recommend Tom Leech as a valuable resource for improving anyone's presentation skills, all the way up to experienced veterans in the communication business."
Tom Gable, CEO, Gablepr (IPREX PR Partnerships)
“Thanks so much for your outstanding presentation. It was a great success and we all felt that your advice hit the main areas that we need to improve on in our presentations.” (Annual Mgt/Team Retreat)
Guy Salvesen, Ph.D., Coordinator, Burnham Institute (Cancer Research)
“Thank you for sharing your interpretation of the Bard's wisdom and its application to the world of proposals at our recent APMP Annual Conference. The audience enjoyed the clever repartee between your competing managers as they bantered back-and-forth with dialogue taken from the Bard's quotes.”
David Winton, Executive Director, APMP (Ass’n of Proposal Management Professionals)
In addition to the above, other sponsors for conference programs include: AMA (American Management Assn), BAE SYSTEMS, Balboa Insurance, California Water Board, Central California Women's Conference, City of San Diego Program Management Academy, Ericsson Wireless, Hewlett Packard, International Exhibitors Association (now TSEA), L-3 Corporation, Moog Aircraft, NSA (National Speakers Assn), NDIA (Nat’l Defense Industrial Ass’n), New York State, Presentations Magazine, NSPE (National Soc. Of Prof. Engineers), PRSA Nat’l Conference, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SWE (Soc. Of Women Engineers), Raytheon, Tetra Tech, USAF/Industry Dialogues.
Summing it up.
In this highly competitive and changing world, success requires being able to communicate clearly and well with others. "Contracts and careers are made or broken in ten minutes in the board room" Our programs have proven effective in helping organizations and individuals enhance their ability to communicate with customers and colleagues, leading to better business success, personal confidence, and career advancement.
We look forward to helping your team, as we have helped many others.