About
Personal presence gives you the power to inspire, to influence, to excite, to question and to connect. We all have it within us. Yet many of us freeze or falter in the spotlight. We might be in a meeting with colleagues, giving a eulogy for a friend or trying to impress our peers. These are defining moments. As an actress on national TV and as a coach to high-performing professionals, Sarah Thurstan knows there are no set answers for how to give your best when you take the stage. It’s a highly personal story for each of us.
In this book, she guides you through how you can bring your natural self and your authentic voice to when you are speaking in public. Drawing on all her experience of theatre and film, conferences and campaigns, she guides you through each stage of giving a speech that plays to your strengths and wins the hearts of your audience.
Wonderful guidance on how individuals and teams can become the best version of themselves.
Mark Thurston
Chief executive, HS2
Sarah Thurstan
Sarah Thurstan has helped hundreds of speakers get their big moments right in front of a live audience. She coaches leaders, professionals and influencers on how to speak authentically in public and engage their audiences. Drawing on her years of experience as an actress in theatre and film, she develops everyone’s unique speaking style, bringing their strengths, their values and their stories to the fore. As a coach, she has helped executives from many organizations find their authentic voice and perform as their natural selves in public. She is a director of Performance Link, a company that specializes in developing a speaker’s personal presence and making them feel comfortable in their own skin about the whole experience of performing.
Access the transformative potential of Sarah’s book, both professionally and personally … we continue to become more compelling and successful as a result.
Verity Brown
Director, Rok Box
Contents
(1) What is personal presence (2) Playing to our strengths (3) Fighting the fear (4) Physical communication (5) Storytelling (6) Engaging your audience (7) Lessons from the Greeks: rule of three (8) Structure (9) Self-awareness, self-disclosure and self-confidence (10) Elevator pitches, doorstep challenges and talking to camera (11) Diction, delivery and jargon (12) Directions and props (13) Performing as a leader (14) Business theatre (15) Cornerstones and competence
A must for anyone who experiences sweaty palms, palpitations and sleepless nights before an important presentation. Enjoy, learn and grow.
David Williams
Founder and chief executive, Impact International
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