Doreen Downing, PhD

Dr. Doreen Downing is a Clinical Psychologist and founder of Essential Speaking. She is also Training Director of Speaking Circles® International, an organization dedicated to helping people speak with full presence and connection.

In Doreen’s journey to find her authentic voice, she discovered that being centered in your Essential Self is the key to relaxed and confident speaking.

Her book, Essential Speaking: The 7 Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice takes you beyond scripts and techniques to a deeper connection to your true self. Once you can access who you really are, you have tapped into the ease and power to express yourself.

Billy J. Atwell

Billy J. Atwell is host of the “Unshakable Self-Confidence” Apple podcast. He is Confidence Coach and an author.

“Unshakable Self-Confidence” is the podcast where Billy J. Atwell and his guests help you to get to the root of all your self-doubt, overcome your painful past, and most importantly, help you to transform into a truly self-confident person.

Subscribe today, and never let fear and self-doubt keep you from living life as your truest confident self!

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Marla Genova

Marla Genova has worked with hundreds of people with social anxiety and/or public speaking phobias for 15 years through facilitating support groups, weekend workshops, and coaching. With these experiences, she has learned what helps and hinders others. Marla will teach you how to change your anxious thought patterns by co-creating action plans to gradually accept and face your fears.

Your specific needs will be met, you won’t be judged and you’ll not feel alone anymore. The healing experience of sharing is crucial for your progress. Take it from someone who truly understands what you’re going through, has lived it, and has seen hundreds of others overcome their fears to lead a more fulfilling life. The only thing required of you is to be ready for change and commit to working on it.

Craig Harrison

Craig Harrison is a professional speaker, trainer, author and consultant, and the founder of the training firm Expressions of Excellence!

As a past president of the National Speakers Association of Northern California, he founded its Speakers Academy, which has graduated hundreds of speakers to the professional ranks. Later, Craig co-founded a Storytellers Special interest group for the nationwide NSA.

Craig also led a Northern California district of Toastmasters International to distinction, and his 90 articles on aspects of communication, leadership, culture, excellence, humor and interviews with difference-makers, including John Wooden, “Sully” Sullenberger, Harvey Mackay, and Dr. Doreen Downing, have been featured worldwide in Toastmaster magazine.

Susan Kavanaugh

Susan Kavanaugh presents workshops on Conscious Communications for employers and conferences. She belives consciously communicating whether through conversation, writing, or public positioning, requires you to embrace authenticity.

As a business executive coach one of the biggest topics she addresses is overcoming anxiety through a conscious, authentic approach allowing her clients to successfully scale their businesses.

KavCom’s communications services will support your journey with specialized consulting, grant writing, blog, marketing articles, public relations guidance, and strategic planning. Think of KavCom as a growth strategy organization for any business focused on creating good.

Daniel Kingsley

Daniel Kingsley was a barrister (UK trial attorney) who became fascinated with discovering more authentic ways of communicating and being, and devoted himself to studying these for many years.

He happily gave up the law and founded Presence Training in 2012 as a way of combining his knowledge of Communication Skills with the principles of authentic embodied learning (how to be at ease in yourself and in your body and to relate with others from there).

Daniel’s calling is to help people to reconnect with who they really are and to step forward into the world from there with confidence, making real connections. 

Marti MacEwan

Marti MacEwan is a long time professional counselor and coach with a specialty in overcoming stage fright, performance anxiety and the fear of public speaking.

Marti had severe stage fright herself and figured out how to eliminate it. She loves being able to say “I used to have stage fright, but I don’t anymore.” As a result, she has developed a unique method for overcoming any kind of stage fright in any setting.

Marti is author of the book The Stage Fright Cure and the Stage Fright Cure Online Course and coaches privately. She is also the co-developer of something called “The Rapid Relief Process”, which is a cornerstone of The Stage Fright Cure. She offers a free 2-hour online class teaching The Rapid Relief Process called Rapid Relief from Stress and Distress.

Robin Sacks

Robin Sacks is a confidence coach, professional speaker, author and motivator. She is a mom, wife, and friend.

In a nutshell, Robin provides a simple and humorous bent on Confidence, Stress Management, and Personal Branding to help you shift your self-talk, body language, and “mental game” so you can “get out of your own way,” stress less, and accomplish more. Her philosophy is simple…you are overthinking everything! Confidence is a skill – and, like any other skill, it can be learned!

Robin has facilitated personal and professional development training internationally for companies including Microsoft, Panera, and American Greetings. Click below for free videos, as well as a blog full of tools and tips.

Kristen Ulmer

Kristen Ulmer is a thought leader on anxiety who draws from being the best woman extreme skier in the world for 12 years, studying Zen for 16 years, and facilitating thousands of clients.

She is author of the Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won’t Work and What to Do Instead. The book outlines a clear path to stop the cycle of avoidance/resistance (and repression) to Fear and learn how to feel and experience it in a healthy way. This new, revolutionary approach to Fear is an alternative for those who have had so far, limited success with other methods for dealing with their fear or anxiety issues.

Kristen facilitates and speaks about anxiety all over the world. Clients include Google founders, Citigroup top brass, Olympic athletes, and the US Air Force.

Lisa Wentz

Lisa Wentz is a public speaking expert, leadership coach, and author of Grace Under Pressure: a Masterclass in Public Speaking. Lisa has shared her deep knowledge of communication skills on CNBC and in TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, INC., L.A. Daily Journal among others.  

Lisa regularly coaches executives and managers from Fortune 500 companies. Her resume includes Adobe, Genentech, Google, Oracle, Salesforce, and VMware among others. Lisa is passionate about serving the non-profit sector and has coached keynote speakers from Change.org, the Humane Society, and ChanZuckerberg. 

Lisa holds a Master’s degree in Voice and Speech Pedagogy from the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Lisa is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.