Professional Speaking, Keynote Speaking, Talks, Presentations
Writing – books, papers, articles
From intimate dinners to 600 people, on-line and in person
Mark Mekki on Innovation and on Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Breitenfeld on Making videos your clients love
Ian Gibbs on The Secret Key to Learning (Tedx)
David Rigby on Diversity illustrated by Dancing
With an awesome amount of experience in our team, many of whom belong to Professional Speakers Associations, we are able to offer some excellent speakers for those events where you need to inspire, educate, engage, entertain, train, motivate. Whether you need a headliner, a breakout talk, a panel expert give us a call. We are brim full of ideas and subjects!
We give training in Communication and in Public Speaking. We also train individuals in English for people where English is not their first language. And distinguish between British and American English see Train
Our associates and colleagues have written a number of books and published many newspaper and periodical articles (not forgetting our website)
Together they deliver a good grounding in the basics of good business and life practice.
Call us on +447788425688 for more details or send us an enquiry
Whatever your organisational, individual, leadership or team needs are, have Smart Coaching & Training be your first call. Starting with a free strategy session we will discuss your needs and create a proposal to suit you.
Our Speakers
Audiences and Topics
Previous audiences have included charity fundraisers, professional coaches, industry conferences, university academics, business leaders, teams developing strategy and change management. And they have been in many countries .
Topics have included:
- Generative AI is all the hot rage
- Developing Talent in the Information Age
- Managing Stakeholders during Change Management
- Becoming who you need to be using Behavioural Preference Profiling and Emotional Intelligence. Personal Branding
- People Like Us – Diversity and Inclusion
- Build Your Own Village – Networking
- Using NLP to develop business
- Business Strategy and Change Management
- Engaging Employees to improve Customer Service
- Resilience in the workplace
Range and source of Speakers
Range of Speakers
SCT has professional speakers within its Associates. And has contact to many more through its networks and partners. This includes the profession speakers association and also the Virtual Speakers Association and Toastmasters. Some are used to commanding stages with huge audiences, others prefer to work with more intimate audiences. We also are used to Webinars and Podcasts . You can see Speakers Showreels and see their Presenting Skills on their individual Profiles
Professional Speakers Associations
Professional Speaker Association is a collection of Professional Speakers Associations in many locations It’s purpose is to improve the skills of those who already have speaking experience.. We have particularly close associations with PSA Spain and PSA UK from which we have met some of of our associates and know many other members. We also have contacts in Portugal, South Africa and Germany. See PSA-Spain here
As of July 30th 2025, PSA Spain has officially become part of the Global Speaking Federation (GSF) joining a prestigious network of only 17 speaking associations worldwide. www.gsf.com
Watch a very short clip at Professional Speakers Association November 23 Barcelona event here
David Rigby, Jessica Breitenfeld, Ian Gibbs and Caroline Dream were at PSA conference in Barcelona November 2023
TED and TEDx
Some of our speakers have spoken for TED and TEDx. Some teach people how to do it
Watch Ian Gibbs’ TEDx talk The Secret Key to Learning here
Toastmasters
Toastmasters is an international organisation which develops speaking skills from beginners to experts. Some of our associates have won international competitions – such as Clair Aghassipour who won European champion of Toastmasters International Public Speaking contest 2024. such as Jessica Breitenfeld who won Best Female Speaker in Southern Europe,. See her winning speech here. Many others belong to Toastmasters and learnt their trade there.
This is David Rigby ay Excelencia Toastmasters in Madrid, practicing his Spanish Improvisation
see sample Speaker Hub profile here
Engaging a Speaker
How to choose and contract a speech or speaker
Every Speech is different: topics, location, language, audience skills and Audience size They can be delivered via Zoom or Face to Face. The same format applies to groups/teams. The pricing depends on location, whether delivered in person, and the number of attendees. You send an enquiry, make a payment from an invoice and we set it up for you. Call us on +447788425688 for more details or send us an enquiry
Great Reads
Some of our associates and other connections have published books. Please ask – based on your topic
Looking for some interesting reading?
Read one (or perhaps all) of David Rigby’s articles for Al Arabiya News on a variety of fascinating topics.
Caroline Dream has written several books on Clowning
Clair Aghassipour has published this book ‘Navigating the Culture Maze . More details here
Ian Gibbs has written several books on Learnability and Learning Clubs
Testimonials
Be excellent in yourself and what you do
We keep speaking testimonials with the profile pages of the associates who delivered them. Documenting all the testimonials for all the speakers delivered by all the associates is a very long task and the information is elsewhere.
