🎤 Get to know your Presentation Personality 🎤
🚀 Take your speaking game to the next level 🚀
🎉 Discover expert tips for preparing killer presentations 🎉
🎤 Get to know your Presentation Personality 🎤 🚀 Take your speaking game to the next level 🚀 🎉 Discover expert tips for preparing killer presentations 🎉
Let’s uncover the best presenter and speaker you can be, help you overcome nerves and limiting beliefs holding you back, and give you confidence to bring your personality into your speaking style so you can:
Increase your visibility to grow a thriving career or business
Show potential clients and employers how good you are at speaking
Share your personal brand and expertise through effective presentation
Support your journey to become a thought leader in your field
Join Bec and Andrés for an immersive, full-day Confidently Visible Speaker’s Training
Hosted by marketing and PR industry leaders Bec Sands and Andrés Lopez-Varela, the Confidently Visible Speaker’s Training is an intimate, immersive learning experience where just 12 people will unlock their strengths as a speaker and presenter.
This workshop is all about making you feel as comfortable as possible with your own unique style of presentation. You’ll get to know your superpowers as a presenter and identify opportunities for growth as Bec and Andrés guide you through a range of hands-on activities to discover your unique Presentation Personality.
This workshop isn’t about learning the ‘five rules of presentation’ or the ‘proven formula to speaker success’, because those things aren’t real. Instead, the emphasis of this workshop is on helping you discover your best approach to preparing and delivering presentations that reflects your personal style and preferences as a professional communicator.
Bec and Andrés aren’t here to mould you into some robotic style of speaker that isn’t an authentic representation of who you are. But they will share specific advice for each person in the room based on their Presentation Personality, through individual feedback on your presentations and help you build a unique toolkit that works for you and your presenting needs.
WHO is THIS EXPERIENCE BEST SUITED FOR?
If you’re an emerging business leader, new manager, sales team member, founder, small business owner, thought leader, company spokesperson, journalist or content creator, the Confidently Visible Speaker’s Training is for you. You’ll learn how to:
develop ways of presenting your unique thought leadership style to grow your personal brand and business/career
position their executives/employees as strong brand ambassadors for your company or organisation
boost your profile beyond your existing network to reach new stakeholders and potential customers
endorse your company and its products or services in the most powerful way possible
Upcoming training sessions
Thursday, 1 May 2025 (maximum 12 participants)
Where: Newcastle CBD - venue TBA
Time: 9am-4pm
Cost (inc GST): $599 pp (early bird pricing, expires on Friday 18 April at 5pm AEST) | $749 pp (standard pricing)
Included: Pre-workshop questionnaire, workshop training handbook and catering including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (dietary requirements confirmed following booking)
What to expect on the day
An expertly-curated workshop agenda
Bec and Andrés have developed the agenda for this training experience based on their combined four decades of experience presenting on-stage, in boardrooms, at industry conferences, online and in the media. The workshop day is broken up into three inter-connected sections, each designed to give you the most essential information to help you become the best speaker you can be. Here’s what’s on the agenda:
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Get to know your unique presentation style, how to play to your strengths and what you can do to maximise your mindset ahead of presentations.
Bec and Andrés will help you understand your Presentation Personality, how to use your own individual strengths in a presentation and provide actionable insights on how to overcome limiting beliefs when you’re preparing for presentations and speaking in front of an audience.
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Understand the best ways to prepare for an excellent presentation, some of the common techniques effective speakers and presenters use and learn about how different speaking styles can captivate an audience.
Bec and Andrés will share how to get ready for your presentations and speaking opportunities, as well as how presenters with differing styles can excel at being great speakers and helping you develop a set of best-practice tips and skills that work for you.
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Deliver a short presentation bringing together your Presentation Personality, the best-practice advice you’ve learned, and your natural strengths as a speaker.
Bec and Andrés will guide you on how to blend your Presentation Personality with best-practice, so you can create a presentation that is effective and compelling. Bec and Andrés will also lead the group in a constructive conversation to help everyone identify what they learned and what they think they can improve on.
A supportive and safe environment
The training is run in a small group for two important reasons: everyone gets plenty of personalised advice and there’s no big, intimidating audiences to practice in front of. Bec and Andrés understand this sort of training can be challenging and even a little scary, so that’s why the workshop is conducted in a closed room, they don’t record and play back your presentations on a big screen and you’ll have the chance to experiment with new techniques in a risk-free way. This is your safe space to learn and make mistakes, guided by two pros who’ve previously made all those mistakes themselves.
Plenty of hands-on activity and time for Q&A (and absolutely no death-by-powerpoint)
Sure, the workshop material is important and the presentation practice is a critical part of this training experience, but Bec and Andrés want you to have abundant opportunities to ask questions and explore specific topics related to speaking and presenting throughout the day. That’s why the day isn’t jam-packed with a million slides and theoretical concepts; the workshop is heavy on the practical, hands-on activities, with ample time to ask questions and discuss everything you’re learning in enough detail that you can put it into practice the very next day.
Meet your facilitators
About Bec Sands
Bec Sands is a Visibility Mentor who works with women to become confidently visible so that they can put life-changing work out into the world. Bec helps women unlock their creativity and uniqueness to attract more clients and opportunities.
Bec has spent almost 20 years in PR, marketing and communications, working with some of the world’s biggest brands, executives and entrepreneurs, with a significant portion of that time training and preparing business leaders for presentations, speaking engagements and media interviews.
She holds a Bachelor of Media in Writing from Macquarie University, majoring in PR and journalism, and is a Certified Beautiful You Coaching Academy life coach, an approved education provider with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) - global leaders of coach education. Bec regularly speaks at conferences, gives corporate presentations and facilitates workshops for business leaders, as well as hosting her own podcast, Confidently Visible.
“Bec delivered an excellent training presentation that supported employees across our national team to elevate their professional profiles on LinkedIn. Her session was engaging and tailored for our business, providing in-depth knowledge of social media and helping to develop the skills needed to leverage the platform as a professional. I highly recommend Bec.”
LYNNE STOCKDALE
LEARNING FACILITATOR, ENDEAVOUR DRINKS GROUP
About Andrés López-Varela
Andrés López-Varela is an experienced keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, podcast host and presentation trainer, with almost two decades of experience presenting in high-stakes business settings in Australia and overseas.
Andrés, or ‘ALV’ as he’s known, has a two-decade career in marketing including as the GM of Storyation, one of Australia’s best content marketing agencies, where he presented in more than 110 pitch and new business meetings over six years. He’s also held senior roles at Tourism Australia and international agencies like Weber Shandwick and One Green Bean.
Andrés has a track record of delivering compelling and insightful presentations to groups as varied as 1,000 conference delegates, a handful of senior execs in a boardroom, in radio and podcast studios and, one time, to four people and a nervous cavoodle aboard a modestly-sized boat on Sydney Harbour.
Andrés has trained senior leaders and executives at brands like Nespresso, Honeywell, Symantec, Garmin and BHP to successfully design and run their own presentations and workshops like pros.
“Andrés is one of the most compelling speakers I’ve worked with during my eight years of curating the State of Social conference; every time he’s taken to the stage at my events, he’s been voted a top speaker by attendees. ALV brings confidence, personality and expertise to all his presentations and he is always generous with his knowledge.”
Meg Coffey
Founder, State of Social conference and digital marketing commentator
Frequently Asked Questions
If I purchase a place in the training, can I get a refund?
Your spot is non-refundable after purchase, given this is a small group and we need to book the venue and catering. However your spot is transferrable up to one week out from the event.
Is this training tax-deductible?
Yes, this training should be a tax-deductible business training expense. Please check with your accountant or financial advisor.
How often will you be hosting these trainings?
We aim to host these trainings approximately twice per year, however future training dates are set only a couple of months in advance.
I have more questions before I’m ready to book, what should I do?
We’d love to chat some more if you want more information about the workshop, please click here to email Bec and Andrés and they’ll be in touch to answer your questions.