HELPING
BUILD
YOUR CONFIDENCE.
What if you were unstoppable when selling, speaking, or presenting on video?
That's where I can help.
Helping you speak with impact.
Getting the best out of you, so you're confident and competent.
AS A FOUNDER, YOU WANT YOUR MESSAGE TO BE HEARD.
Whether that is in your content on social media, when you pitch or speak to prospects, or on video.
I help unlock the authentic business owner by telling stories that your prospects understand and resonate with.
I take on public speaking training for clients privately, to help them tell stories and present themselves confidently and with impact.
SOFT SKILLS TRAINING FOR TEAMS AND CORPORATE WORKSHOPS.
Challenge:
A program by Cheil, Samsung's global marketing agency, aimed to put sales ambassadors into retail environments like JB HiFi, One NZ, Noel Leeming, Harvey Norman, Spark and 2 Degrees, to educate and sell products direct to the public. For the categories of TV and mobile.
Deliverables:
I was engaged to deliver this training on the back of my successful campaigns training brand ambassadors for Sony, LG and Huawei, and again I trained 65+ young people in face-to-face sales and engagement over three days. The mobile was the much anticipated S24 model. I incorporated storytelling into the training with games, exercises and training structures to ensure they were retail-ready. Continued training programs throughout 2024/2025.
Outcome:
Retail Experience Director at Cheil, Annette Loughnane, 18 Jan 2024
"Day one concluded here in NZ for the S24 and the brand ambassadors have been welcomed overwhelmingly positively by the stores. They integrated well and have made some amazing pre-sales.
Samsung visited the stores and the feedback has been positive. They tested them and their product and sales knowledge was second to none, thanks to you. Some stores now have a TV expert and a mobile brand ambassador, and they are bonding well. A fantastic result given the challenges of you training them online in India with the technology we faced along the way. You have again helped with a great result - thank you"
Retail Experience Director at Cheil, Annette Loughnane, 9 July 2024
"I just wanted to say thank you for delivering the sales & engagement training for the Samsung experts last week. You were honestly amazing, and the brand ambassadors absolutely loved you. The expertise in your work is exceptional."
Retail Experience Director at Cheil, Annette Loughnane, 27 September 2024
"Thanks again John for your outstanding training this week for the Galaxy phone launch. Your content and knowledge is amazing, and the brand ambassadors love you. 45 of the 53 ambassadors rated you 10/10. Congratulations".
Retail Experience Director at Cheil, Annette Loughnane, 20 December 2024
"Superior skills and always an honour to have John leading our Cheil/Samsung BA program coaching the team and teaching them to master sales and engagement in stores".
Retail Experience Director at Cheil, Annette Loughnane, 30 January 2025
"You have a unique skill of building rapport with our brand ambassadors, and you have them eating out of your hand. All 65 of them. They ranked your training 8.5 out of 10. With an average of 9.5. There's not enough words to say how impressed the team are by your training".
Challenge:
A mix of under-grad, post-grad and business community students pitched their proposed business to a panel of eight judges in the six-week Velocity program, and they needed help with their presentation.
Deliverables:
A storytelling and presentation workshop for 30 students to help them uncover their "why" or "insight" stories to better connect them and their business idea with the panel and some practical presentation tools to use on the day of their pitch.
Outcome:
The students all had time in front of the room telling their personal insight stories. They did group work to record their stories and we finished with exercises on warming up, gestures, body language, voice, breathing and pausing.
The workshop you did today was eye-opening. It makes me realise the importance of using your voice and body, and telling things as a interesting personal story to make a connection. I hope to not forget the confidence you showed today so I can channel some of it!
Thank you so much John! The workshop was amazing - feeling a lot more inspired about the pitch now.
Thank you, John. You'll be pleased to know we heeded your advice and opted for a story! And we won.
Thank you John! Really appreciate it and your motivation today. Super inspiring and amazing to hear your story. My cousin also has a stutter growing up and reminded me of that. Thank you for your time, love your charisma and capability of your confidence to captivate an audience!
Thanks John. That was an entertaining workshop. Loved it.
Challenge:
Help the Connector community experts better understand each other so they connect with each other on a deeper level.
Deliverables:
A two-hour storytelling workshop where I helped the 14 experts tell personal stories to help them bond.
Outcome:
Team members emotionally connected with each other and the measure of success was delivered due to an uplift in member meetings.
Great session John! Exactly what I needed yesterday! It was refreshing to get to know each other on a deeper, authentic level, and go beyond what we would talk about everyday.
Really good session, John. It was awesome getting to know the team on a more personal level and developing deeper trust. Well done.
Challenge:
Help the finance team at AUT tell stories for connection and understanding.
Deliverables:
A one-hour workshop with exercises, games and interplay to help communicate the value of storytelling and teach the participants simple frameworks for how to tell stories for better business outcomes.
Outcome:
The 25 in-house finance, CA's and department heads left with a framework to share stories in a complex world of accounting and finance.
Thank you John, I really enjoyed your session, very useful and yet simple to remember.
AUT Participant
Auckland 2023
Loved the use of acronyms to get your message across today - I think I might just be thinking about your session each time I see an ABS Braking sign... 😂
AUT Participant
Auckland 2023
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