Graham Davies

Graham is a presentation coach with a long and successful track record coaching presenters ranging across CEOs, Celebrities and Politicians.

Graham specialises in one-to-one coaching with senior managers and high profile individuals who share the need to deliver in high pressure situations.

The one-to-one sessions are delivered in short hard hitting sessions that make the best use of time and maximise the amount of effort that can be focused on the coaching.

The focus and approach of the coaching is wholly dependant on the needs of the person being coached.

Elements include:

• Recognising and developing the Personal Presentational Brand of the presenter.

• Message sharpening to create a specific legacy for the audience.

• Editing and structuring for impact

• Creating a delivery that balances passion and control.

• Use of notes and not read from the screen

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• Rehab from PowerPoint Addiction - making the presenter the centre of attention not the slides.

• Turning negative nerves into concentrated confidence.

• Dealing with difficult and demanding Q & A

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Graham also offers coaching for small groups. However, the size of the group and format of the coaching will need to be discussed with Graham. It is rare for a coaching group to exceed six.

　
The key results of presentation coaching by Graham include:

• Tighter and more memorable presentations

• Increased confidence

• Greater individual impact

• Rehab from addiction to PowerPoint

• Greater control in Q&A

In short, Graham ensures that his clients can be as professional in their spoken communication as they are in every other aspect of their career.
All of Graham’s coaching is based on the fundamental principle that every presentation needs to have a brutally effective Micro-Message™ that forms the hub for all the presentation content.

The Micro-Message™ is what you would say if you only had ten seconds in which to speak. It is what you want the audience to remember above all else, long after the presentation has finished.

Experience has shown that the Micro-Message™ becomes the fulcrum of other communications that surround the presentation.

Graham is a Barrister and a highly experienced advocate, inquisitor and presenter.

He started life as a speaker in the Cambridge Union, of which he is an Ex-President.

As a speaking professional, Graham presents over 100 times a year to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

His work spans a wide range from facilitating and awards hosting to after dinner and keynote speaking and presentation coaching.

“Graham has so much experience that the coaching was spot-on: significantly raising the quality of my speech. He gave me more impact by changing the structure, changing key words and giving me new presentation techniques.”
Philip Clarke, International Director, Tesco UK

“You have made a huge difference to my personal impact.”
Michael Gove MP.

“I approached you because I wanted to introduce the same sort of professionalism to my speaking that I have always had in my riding. By using your techniques I can now prepare and perform every speech as if it were the Grand National.”
Richard Dunwoody MBE.

“I would recommend your approach to anyone who understands the importance of getting the message across.”
Otto Thoresen, CEO, AEGON UK

“Your coaching has shown me how to home in on the real essentials. As a result, all my speeches are shorter, punchier and more powerful.”
Mark Field MP.

“Yet again, your advice and expertise has saved me from a presentational nightmare. Thank you for providing such insight and inspiration at such short notice.”
Richard Klein, Managing Director, US Institutional Sales, Merrill Lynch UK
“My live interview with Michael Portillo was several degrees less challenging than my coaching sessions with you.”
Zac Goldsmith

“Everybody learned new ideas and techniques which enabled them to deliver a high quality professional performance. It was excellent to observe people visibly grow in confidence.”
John Stevens, Marketing Director, PC World Business

“The work you have done on the structure, focus and delivery of our Fund Manager pitch presentations has been a fantastic success. To have achieved the win rate we have in just 3 months is totally astonishing.”
Hugh Ferrand, Institutional Client Director, Invesco Perpetual
　
“I knew what I wanted to say and you engineered the words and the presentational style that achieved maximum impact. I am absolutely certain that I would not have achieved the success I had without your help.”
Roger Oldfield, Partner, KPMG

“You really delivered on 2 fronts. Firstly, a clear and easy-to-use preparation technique that helps me clarify the message and structure the supporting content around it, whatever the nature of the presentation. Secondly, ready-to-use, hard-hitting guidance on personal delivery style.”
Mark Angela, Managing Director, Greene King Pub Company

“...our presentations were a fantastic success ... we felt the coaching was of great benefit.”
George Clarke ,Managing Director, Heidelberg
　
“Developing the presentation skills of my team, who are from four countries and for many of whom English is a second language, would be challenging enough for most coaches. But given that they were all competent presenters before, I considered the challenge to be immense. Yet you rose to it and you got a result. On top of this, the work on the message itself was invaluable. We now have the skills to make the very best presentations with material that can have a real impact.”
Alan Carpenter, Director, International Fleet Sales, Volvo Cars

“The coaching was focused, intense and challenging; with brutally accurate but constructive feedback. It was exactly what we were looking for. Our work with you has hugely increased the effectiveness of our IFA presentations.”
Mike Wallis, Head of Business Development, Skandia Investment Management

“Your style is direct and constructive. You create a foolproof process that just works. Thank you for your expertise and insight. I strongly recommend Serious presenters to work with your organisation.”
Stephen Head, Sales Training Manager, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

“Working with you on the fundamental issues in our business helped us to clarify enormously the messages that we must convey.”
Tom Pallister, Director, Customer Service Division, Ford

“The members of our team who have already been subjected to the Straight Talking treatment have improved in confidence to a level where it is difficult to keep them quiet.”
Ian D. Taylor, Director, ABN Amro

“I cannot thank you both enough for what you have helped me achieve. ........... I cannot remember ever sensing such tangible audience reaction to a pitch ......... I guess if you can get it to work on me you must really be magicians.”
Dick Holland, Software Development Director, Primark Datastream

“Each of the participants are particularly appreciative of the skill with which you were able to help them identify issues, address individual needs and instil confidence.”
Bob Taylor, IFA Manager, Lotus & IBM Software Group

　
“Not only was your substantive material extremely useful, the inclusion of our delegates in your active participation exercises was brilliant.”
John Patrick Dolan, CEO, LawTalk