The College of Public Speaking offers quality, flexibility and value for money.

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• Business Presentation Skills
• Training the Trainer
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• Executive Speech Coaching
• Voice
• PowerPoint
• Media Skills
• Interview Skills
• Nerves
• Corporate Challenge

CoPS Vision

Recent speaking programmes with BT, The Ministry of Justice, The Metropolitan Police, The Commonwealth and Foreign Office, The Land Registry, Buckingham Palace, BSkyB and HM Treasury demonstrates that we deliver outstanding results. With a wide range of innovative speaking products, we offer quality, flexibility and value for money to our growing customer base. The College of Public Speaking is a niche supplier to BT, one of the largest companies in the UK. Read More »

BT Effective workshops

The College of Public Speaking has announced that it is running a second series of workshops for the BT elite talent pool. Following the successful completion of the initial 'effective communication workshops', demand for a second series has stirred within the talent pool. Read More »

Corporate Challenge

Following the inaugural event's success, the College of Public Speaking has announced its plans to run a 'Corporate Challenge' speaking competition where companies are invited to send a representative to compete in a six minute speech contest. It's a festival of speaking where the UK's top business speakers participate in friendly competition. Read More »

Location

Based in London, the College of Public Speaking offers its courses and workshops throughout central London, in Bromley, Croydon, Islington, Victoria, Bristol and St Albans. We cater for staff at all levels, whether it be for supervisors, managers, busy executives and right up to Board level. We also offer instruction for the effective delivery of technical material.

Trainers

Our lead trainers Michael Ronayne, Vince Stevenson, Richard Johnson and Alistair Divall have years of experience in the world of speaking and training across some of largest companies in the UK and abroad. We understand the issues involved in influencing people, whether it be senior management or the promotion board in accepting that you are ready for that next major challenge. We all belong to prestigious speakers clubs and regulary deliver speeches. We also participate in National Competitions and therefore ensure that we keep our skills up to date. We work as a cohesive team and support each other in delivering top quality courses and workshops.

Community

The College of Public Speaking also has strong links with the Community having run free workshops at Oxfam, Bromley Field Study Centre and Gordon House, a residential home for people with a gambling addiction.

Famous Speeches

Martin Luther King Junior - "I have a dream…"

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. Read More...

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the wake of those great architects of our history who have stood here before me, pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Read More...

Winston Churchill - "We shall fight them…"

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air… Read More...

President John F Kennedy - "Man on the Moon…"

The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to "from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union." While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times. Read More...

President Bill Clinton - "Globalisation and Progression Guildhall London 2006…"

Thank you very much. Thank you, Gordon for inviting me here today to come back to this magnificent place, for your wondrous leadership of the economy and the Treasury, and for your continued vigorous efforts to find responses to the challenges of globalization at home and around the world. Read More...

Barack Obama Berlin speech 24/07/2008 - "People of Berlin…"

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. Read More...

Barack Obama Victory Speech Chicago 05/11/2009 - "If there is anyone out there…"

Victory Speech - If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Read More...

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