Do you need a supportive personal communications coach? Hire Marian Woodall, a premier national professional speech coach to add polish and value to all of your firm's communicating. Enhance your career and energize yourself. Marian guarantees it.

Does your firm seek a higher level of professionalism in its speeches and presentations? Do you need to look and sound more like the team you are? Do you fear your visuals are overwhelming your content? Get advice and suggestions from The Speechdoctor. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Coaching — individual, private, quick — even fun!

When should you hire a presentations coach?

… To increase chances for success in a high-stakes presentation, to enhance the “team” in a team presentation, to polish executive skills, to develop more benefits-oriented sales talks, to bring your visuals into the 21st Century.

… Or, to sharpen your wits for savvy Q & A.

… Or, to improve your skills dealing one-to-one with staff, bosses, even spouses and kids.

Who uses a speech coach?

CEO’s, politicians, marketing reps, professional speakers who want polish; the timid, the bold, the anxious, the confident — all kinds of communicators can be stronger. Marian guarantees it.

Marian has helped many political candidates and elected officials make the most of their public opportunities. Move yourself from candidate to office-holder by sharpening your focus, shining your delivery, polishing your Q & A.

Remote coaching a success!

Many aspects of coaching can be handled via email, fax, or telephone. Marian can guide you through organizational decisions, critique your PowerPoint slides, help develop your take-away sentence, create a penetrating “hook” to capture the attention of your audience — all on line. Click here to read some remote coaching successes.

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Consultations

The presentation you create in response to an RFP must be the best your firm is capable of: customized to a specific audience, more “show” and less “tell.”

The presentation team requires sharp, smooth delivery which enhances the content, with a unified look and sound. Marian’s consulting clients base includes accounting, marketing. management consulting, engineering, architecture, financial management, high tech, banking, many more. Be the best you can be when it matters the most. Call 541-388-2725 for a no-cost discussion of your needs.

Long Time Clients

An expert is known by the companies that keep her. Repeat engagements from companies like these are your best means to judge Marian Woodall’s work — that is, until you have her work for you:

Microsoft, Philips Consumer Electronics, AT&T, Tektronix, Price Waterhouse, Hewlett-Packard, Andromedia, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, Macromedia, Frictionless, Intel, Symbol Technologies, Oregon Women Lawyers, National Educational and Leadership Forum, Clemson University Seminars, Portland General Electric, Institute of Management Consultants …

Presentations That Get Results Marian’s latest book details four keys to presentation success: create a specific message for each audience — no one-size-fits-all; say what the audience needs to hear, not what you want to say; talk benefits, not features; involve the audience: move them from listeners to participants. Fourteen key problems with solutions. Each chapter a self-contained concept, so you can target just what you need. Any one of these 14 keys can change the business of your business, the punch of your presentation, the access to funds for your appeal. Click to order from Amazon Books. Click to read an excerpt (requires Acrobat Reader). Click for more books by Marian Woodall.

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Professional Experience

National Professional Speaker

Working at the podium for over 25 years, Marian’s enthusiasm and expertise moved audiences from listeners to participants each time, guaranteed. Marian had no “packages” waiting on the shelf; her work was customized to each audience. Your audiences deserve the same. Contact Marian for easy ways to customize your core messages.

Analyst

Her insightful analysis was featured four times on the CBS late-night television news program “Up To the Minute.” She provided commentary on the communications success of President Clinton, Senator Robert Dole, Vice President Al Gore and Senator Jack Kemp during the Presidential and VP debates in fall of 1996. [Even though her dad said, “It isn’t nice to criticize the President of the United States, Sis.”]

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Author

Other Books by Marian Woodall

Marian’s books have been translated into several languages and have been printed in many countries, including China, India, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia, and Mexico.

Thinking on Your Feet For success communicating under pressure, practice preparedness: “buy time” to compose thoughts; listen fully; frame the answer with a question; be ready to say it in a single sentence. When asked for an opinion, learn to give it like you mean it. Discover when to give the “forest” and when to give the details of each tree. Click to order from Amazon Books.

How to Talk So Men Will Listen Learn to your maximize your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses as a communicator. Bridge the challenging gender gap by developing a wardrobe of conversational styles. Assess the purpose or goal of your specific communicating situations. Learn when to build rapport and when to get to the bottom line. Lively examples, tips, strategies for everyone who wants to get listened to, bedroom to boardroom. Click to order from Amazon Books. Click to order from iUniverse.

Speaking to a Group: Mastering the Skill of Public Speaking What you need to know to gain the skill of speaking in public from A to Z: assessing audience to handling zealous questioners. Whether you are a terrified beginner or a seasoned pro you’ll get help from this comprehensive treatment of presentation and speech-making. These are tips it would take a lifetime to learn. Click to order from Amazon Books.

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