Vince Stevenson - Public Speaking Courses

Vince Stevenson - (he/him) The Fear Doctor - Trainer of Trainers and Public Speaking Course devotee

Vince is a well-known public speaker and course trainer, and has won several awards for leadership, education, and development. He is a founder of the College of Public Speaking in London, UK, and serves as Education Director, managing all aspects of public speaking course delivery and content. Vince is also one of the UK's leading public speaking coaches. He has worked with leaders across the political, industrial, and financial spectrums, as well as in numerous humanitarian roles.

Vince is an avid learner and has recently earned many certificates in Learning and Communication Science from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Amsterdam, and in Instructional Design from the Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore. As part of Vince's lifelong learning, he's currently enrolled in a higher education training course at Harvard.

Vince is a qualified teacher/trainer. Over the last fifteen years, his enthusiastic membership in several voluntary organisations has helped raise awareness and standards of effective communication. He is the trusted adviser behind the College's outstanding 'pro bono' service to the Third Sector. 

In recent years, Vince has travelled extensively and delivered sessions for the Civil Service in Mauritius and Train theTrainer courses for oil companies from Glasgow to Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Various programs were offered at Insead International Business School near Paris, as well as at the Asia Foundation, Save the Children, and BRAC, the world's largest NGO in Bangladesh. He has assisted in developing the TEDx Storytelling project in Bucharest and Sibiu. He's worked with Vodafone executives in the Faroe Islands. He was a guest speaker at LSE, UCL, KCL, SOAS, and the University of Malta.  In recent years, he has been the guest keynote speaker at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Executive Academy, the Royal Bank of Scotland, London, the Women's Fabian Society at the House of Commons, and the Zajel Peace Project, Nablus, Palestine. He has also been a judge at the world final of the English-Speaking Union's junior competition. He has recently completed successful projects in Kurdistan and China. Vince has also worked with Southern University's Purchasing Consortium at Reading University, delivering sessions to students from across the country.

Vince has worked on speechwriting projects with NGOs, politicians, civil servants, and numerous companies over the past 15 years. In October 2017, he wrote the inaugural speeches for the directors of Louvre Abu Dhabi, a £1 billion museum venture. 

Vince is also a specialist in vocal development techniques and runs regular workshops. He loves helping people overcome their fear of public speaking and is the facilitator of the groundbreaking Fear of Public Speaking Retreat. He also coaches groups and individuals to achieve excellent interview results. As an author, Vince has written two books on public speaking development and overcoming anxiety.

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Why choose Vince Stevenson from the College of Public Speaking as your trainer?

He's a successful speaker/trainer with thousands of hours of classroom experience.

He first introduced fear of public speaking courses to the UK in 2006.

He has extensive experience working with the creative elements of instructional design.

He has qualifications in speaking, training, and debating, having been a member of Toastmasters International, Cogers Free Speech Club, and Sylvans Debating Club.

He's a leader who has created, maintained and developed an interest in the voluntary sector for years, working with St Mungo's Community College and Medicins sans Frontiers, as well as founding Beckenham Speakers Club in 2006. He has developed community projects with the European Social Fund.

Three times, he has volunteered in Bangladesh, training students responsible for projects focused on HIV/AIDS, establishing democracy, eradicating prostitution, promoting education for all, and improving access to clean water and sanitation. Vince has also attended three two-week iterations of the Zajel Project at Nablus University in the West Bank. 

In 2024, Vince attended courses at Utrecht Summer School studying Rhetoric Recrafted (for a post-truth world) and Advanced Communication Skills. Vince also became a member of the Trainers' Forum, speaking at their annual conference in Barcelona in October (an introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric) and in Bergamo in November 2025 (theatre workshop skills including: vocal development, posture, breathing and relaxation exercises). He also featured at the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity conference in Wroclaw, May 2025 and the Benalmadena DEI conference in November 2025. In July 2025, Vince was selected to run his 5-day Discovery Public Speaking Course at Maastricht University.

Prior to Vince's move into the world of personal development, he worked in IT for large corporate organisations such as North West Gas, British Gas Headquarters, Solihull, and Transco in Hinkley in the early 1990s. There, he found himself working in all forms of change management roles. Programme Management, Project Management and Configuration Management. This involved hundreds of meetings, presentations, reporting and dissemination of information. He then moved into Unix training, working for Sun Microsystems and Oracle.