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Master the art of public speaking and enhance your communication skills with a wide range of professional public speaking classes in NYC. Learn invaluable techniques, build confidence, and transform your presentations into captivating and persuasive experiences.

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Pitching and Selling with Confidence

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

Be immersed in a creative and supportive workshop environment. You will receive in-depth feedback on ways to improve your message, overall vocal quality, body language, leadership style, and how to captivate an audience. Learn techniques that will increase your leverage with the public, investors, customers, and employees alike. This interactive and highly intensive workshop is for absolutely everyone who needs to speak publicly in order to influence!...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Storytelling for Business People

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY

By the end of class, each student will have at least two stories to take away and a deeper understanding of the role of storytelling in business. Do you need an amazing story to tell at meetings or during a presentation? Are you trying to launch or brand a product and want an enticing hook? Does your mission statement need an overhaul? In this two-hour workshop, we’ll look into the many ways you can incorporate personal stories into your business...

(160) All levels 16 and older
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Find Your Voice

Be Social Change @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY

Full Course Name: Find Your Voice – Becoming a Confident Public Speaker Public speaking [cue dramatic music that makes people nervous] is not something most people look forward to. However, regardless of your profession chances are you’re going to have to do some public speaking – why not polish up those skills now? Find Your Voice: Becoming a Confident Public Speaker is specifically designed for people wanting to polish up their public speaking...

(245) Advanced 18 and older
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Public Speaking 101

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

The thought of speaking in front of an audience can throw normally calm and confident people into a frenzy. In this workshop, participants will get expert coaching and feedback on ways to strengthen their public speaking skills, from techniques to ease frayed nerves to exercises designed to build confidence and improve focus. We'll the workshop with improvisational games designed to build self-confidence and sharpen listening skills before tackling...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Public Speaking for Lawyers

Speak Wells @ 121 E 27th St, New York, NY

How do you deliver your message with conviction without overstepping your authority and making empty promises? How can you be responsibly cautious about what you say, without appearing wishy washy? Most lawyers can get lost in the details with conveying information to your client or a jury, but you don’t have to. Learn the skills you need to be successful by constantly making your clients feel you are leading them in the right direction. We’ll...

(12) All levels 18 and older
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$199
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Please... Don't Picture Them in Their Underwear

Speak Masterfully @ 50 Broadway, New York, NY

During this 2-hour workshop, NYC actor and public speaking coach Sara Glancy will teach you how to apply the principles of acting and improv to your presentations so that you can take the stage with the confidence of a professional actor. (And all without picturing anyone in their underwear.) Here’s what you’ll learn... How to apply professional vocal technique while still sounding like YOU   The science behind what...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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The Art of Conversation

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

What does it take to navigate small talk towards deeper, more significant topics? How do you gracefully exit from monotonous or unwanted conversations? How do you organically grow your professional network? In this workshop, we’ll explore the many ways to feel more confident engaging with strangers and forging deeper relationships with existing personal and professional contacts. We’ll delve into the dynamics of conversations of all varieties,...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

VitaminR’s VisionWorking: Public Speaking for Visionary

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Full Course Name: VitaminR’s VisionWorking Series: Public Speaking for Visionaries Movements can be created with your words. Learn to inspire from your heart and convictions, transform your language around challenges, and be the one who inspires solution-oriented thinking. This fun workshop will include improvisation, storytelling, and personalized on-the-spot coaching. Practice speaking through fear and limiting beliefs, and find a warm-up approach...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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Public Speaking: Compelling Speeches & Presentations

Learning Tree International @ 1601 Broadway, New York, NY

Public speaking is required in almost every business role, but a variety of factors cause many professionals to struggle when talking in front of an audience. In this training course, you learn how to strengthen your speaking skills, build your confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback. You Will Learn How To: Speak publicly in a convincing,...

Intermediate 18 and older
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$2,650

3 sessions

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Improve Your Public Speaking

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY & Virtually Online

In this 2 class series you will learn how to improve your speaking abilities, vocal quality, and stamina through understanding and embodying healthy vocal production. We will practice speaking one-on-one, projecting to a group and talking online. You will develop a strategy for recuperation at the end of the day that rests your voice and your whole body.  Join us to discover how to work with your own vocal and postural habits that affect your...

(26) Beginner 18 and older
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$75

2 sessions

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Free Intro: Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

A separate paid course will cover the following topics: Performance anxiety arises from fear of being seen and being heard in situations that feel critical. This course, in a deeply supportive atmosphere, offers bodywork exercises that enables one to retrain those responses, get deeply grounded in your nervous system, and relax and breathe under the most difficult of situations. Bodywork reveals the energy in the muscles of the body and voice that...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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Public Speaking and the 3 C’s

Reboot Labs @ 16 W 22nd St, New York, NY

Public Speaking and the 3 C’s: Confidence, Creativity, and Comedy Whether you’re an entrepreneur, CEO, teacher, or anyone whose job or desired job requires speaking in front of others, this class will help you gain the confidence, presence, and charisma to help you connect with your audience. You’ll learn how to reinterpret text, think creatively, and create memorable out-of-the-box presentations while having a great time in the process....

(41) All levels 18 and older
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Improv 101: Introduction to Improvisation

ComedySportz New York @ Ripley Grier Studios
520 8th Ave, New York, NY

In this class, you’ll learn the fundamentals of improvisation!  Through warm-ups, exercises and games, we help improve skills such as listening, teamwork, trust, public speaking, instinct, and agreement, all while laughing and learning. Classes are two hours long and take place once a week for 6 weeks. Classes are lead by an expert facilitator, and ensemble member who has years of experience teaching and performing improvisation. There...

All levels 18 and older
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$250

6 sessions

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Storytelling for the Social Media Era

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

This class decodes the traditions of sometimes-perplexing social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as emergent communities such as Pinterest and Instagram; it is a guide to mastering the art of storytelling that feels native to these platforms. You will learn to cut through noise to glean trending stories, interact with sources for investigative reporting, compose and package stories for viral distribution, while collecting a massive...

(64) All levels 18 and older
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Presentation Skills for Ad People

Miami Ad School PRO @ 35-37 36th St, New York, NY

In this workshop, participants will learn how to effectively communicate ideas and speak confidently in front of their clients. This course covers everything from how to plan for a great presentation to actually delivering it.  Presentation skills are absolutely critical to success in the advertising world. And if you’re a human with a pulse, you’re statistically prone to hate speaking in front of a crowd. Jerry Seinfeld said it best when...

(2) All levels 18 and older
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$300
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Speaking To Be Seen + Heard

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room @ 740 Broadway, New York, NY

Speaking To Be Seen + Heard: How To Connect With Audiences Live + On Camera With Katherine Wessling In today’s multi-media world it’s essential to effectively present yourself in front of various audiences—be it in-person or on video. Most people fear public speaking more than death itself, but you can learn to ace those stressful scenarios be they book readings, live panels, speed dating events, business presentations, Skype job...

All levels 18 and older
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$150
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Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking

York College CPE @ 94 - 20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd, Jamaica, Jamaica, NY

This course will provide strategies to make speaking in public easy. By focusing on planning, preparation and delivery to project a professional, confident speech and image that will captivate any audience and get your message across with ease. Course Requirements: Materials Provided. York CPE one-time registration fee included in price.

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$219

6 sessions

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Effective Public Speaking and Presenting

York College CPE @ 94 - 20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd, Jamaica, Jamaica, NY

Our Effective Public Speaking courses are designed to make public speaking positive and enjoyable. Regardless of the occassion, you will build your confidence to deliver impactful messages that maintain your audience’s interest. This course will train you on how to deliver effective presentations and speeches that reflect positively on you.

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$195

7 sessions

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Develop Presentation Skills as a Business Professionals

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

This highly interactive workshop helps business professionals become more confident, engaging and effective speakers in any context, from a meeting with colleagues to a sales pitch or keynote address.  Learn to present your ideas more powerfully in a corporate environment and see yourself on video! Each participant receives a copy of Brandt Johnson's book Presentation Skills for Business Professionals.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Storytelling 101

CLASS & CO @ 260 Ainslie St, Brooklyn, NY

Are you working on stand up, public speaking or have a solo show idea percolating in your brain? Do you want to inject more vulnerability into your comedy? Are you like me and have had a ton of truly ridiculous dating experiences!? In this writing/performance workshop, you’ll sharpen your skills with writing exercises designed to mine memories, improvisational exercises to define your voice, and personal notes to flesh out your material. By the...

(6) Beginner 17 and older
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$175

5 sessions

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