Executive Speech Coach

Ask yourself how often you address the board of directors or your executive team, a key client, investors or funding sources, the media, fellow leaders or direct reports, company gatherings or community events.

Then ask yourself how well you’re doing.

• Are you presenting yourself and your organization as powerfully as you can?

• Are your speaking skills holding you back or driving you forward?

• Are you getting the results — and the respect — you want?

Executive Speech Coach

Chris Witt, a speech coach based in San Diego, uses a proprietary process to help you:

• Make the most of your natural speaking style

• Think and speak — even off the cuff — with greater clarity and impact

• Engage audiences in a way that increases their trust and your confidence

• Craft a hard-hitting message that gets the results you want

• Use your voice, gestures, eye contact, and unique personal qualities to become more influential and charismatic

Dr. Witt’s approach to speech coaching is both structured and customized. (Who wants an open-ended, indeterminate process?) This is his commitment: to help you be your best in front of an audience.

"My first big speech as CEO was at our 20th anniversary celebration — with over 500 people in attendance. There's no way I could have gotten through it without Chris Witt's coaching. He helped me give a speech I'm proud of."
-Norma Diaz, CEO, Community Health Group

Other speech coaches focus primarily on delivery, as if you are an actor and they are directors. (“Stand this way. Don’t use that gesture. Put more life in your voice.”) Chris focuses more on strategy and message formation, regarding you as a leader and himself as a trusted advisor.

Step 1: Discovery

Through assessments, a structured interview process, and close observation, you will gain a deeper understanding of your unique presentation style and of how best to leverage it during important speeches.

Step 2: Strategy

You will learn a 3-step process you can use to make every speech a winner: 1) uncovering what drives your audience, 2) determining what you want to accomplish, and 3) addressing your audience’s needs while achieving your goals.

Step 3: Message

You’ll discover the elements of a focused, powerful, and audience-centric message. And you will learn how to put those elements together easily and for the greatest impact.

Step 4: Delivery

Everything that makes you a successful leader — your knowledge and experience, your way with people, your values, attitudes, and vision, even your sense of humor — can be used to make you a successful speaker. (You will also learn when — if ever — and how to use PowerPoint.)

"Thanks to his coaching I receive two long ovations and a standing ovation at the conclusion of my speech in San Diego."
-Bob Hunt, President, Stepping Stones

Chris Witt will help you be the best speaker you can possibly be. He won’t try to make you look or sound like anyone else. He won’t ask you to do anything that you aren’t capable of doing. Instead he will show you how to use the strengths and skills you already possess as a leader to be a commanding speaker.

Depending on your goals and schedule, you can work with Chris by phone or in person.

However you work with him, you – and others – will notice a dramatic improvement almost immediately.

The first conversation is always free. You can ask your questions. He’ll ask you plenty of his own. Then you’ll decide together if there’s a fit: If he can help you achieve what you want and if your styles are compatible.

"Because of the advice and coaching Chris Witt gave me, I was able to give my speech with confidence and not anxiety. Many people came up to me afterward to say how much they enjoyed it and were inspired by it. I even got an invitation to give it to another audience."
-Auguste Fortin, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

For more information about how you might benefit from working with an executive speech coach, contact us.