How much does Presenting With Impact cost?

Pursue Your Potential prices this programme per group rather than per seat, and quotes on request. The figure depends on group size, whether the workshop runs in person or virtually, and any travel involved. Send the group size, location and preferred dates and Louisa Savva will come back with a written quote.

How long is the programme?

The standard format is one full day. It can also run as two half-day sessions, usually a week apart, which gives participants a real presentation to try out in between and bring back for feedback. Both formats cover the same material and the same number of practice rounds.

Does it work as a virtual workshop or does it have to be in person?

It runs well in both formats and the virtual version is not a compromise. Presenting on camera is a skill in its own right, so a virtual group practises in exactly the setting where the skill is used, using their own laptop, lighting and platform. In-person groups still do a dedicated camera round for the same reason.

How many people can attend?

Between six and fourteen. The number is set by the format rather than by preference: everyone presents several times and receives individual feedback, and beyond fourteen there is not enough time in the day for that. Below six the group is too small to give a presenter a realistic audience.

How is this different from a general public speaking course?

Public speaking courses tend to focus on the set-piece speech to a large audience. This programme is built for the presentations people actually give at work: a recommendation to a steering group, a quarterly update, a proposal to a client, half of them on video calls. Participants work on a real presentation from their own calendar rather than a neutral exercise topic.

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Presenting With Impact

Presenting With Impact is a one-day presentation skills workshop from Pursue Your Potential in which small groups of professionals learn to structure a message, manage nerves and hold an audience's attention, both in a meeting room and on video calls, through repeated practice rounds and live feedback.

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Outcomes

What changes afterwards

Build a presentation around one clear recommendation instead of a tour of the evidence
Open in thirty seconds in a way that earns the room's attention
Control the physical signs of nerves: breathing, pace, hands, eye contact
Handle interruptions, challenges and questions without losing the thread
Hold attention on a video call where you cannot read the room
Cut a long deck down to the three points that actually decide the matter

Why teams run this

The usual trigger is a specific moment. Someone who is sharp and articulate in a project meeting stands up in front of the leadership team and becomes a different person: reading the slides aloud, saving the recommendation for slide fourteen, apologising for taking up everyone’s time. The analysis was sound. The decision still went the other way, because nobody in the room could tell what was being asked of them.

Most people have never been taught this. They have watched other presenters and copied what those people did, which is how a habit of long build-ups and dense slides gets passed around an organisation. Video calls have made it harder again: no room to read, no sense of whether anyone is following, and a strong pull towards talking to a screen full of slides instead of to people. The skill is teachable, but not by explanation. It is learned by presenting, being told precisely what happened, and presenting again.

What happens in the room

Participants present, repeatedly, from the first hour. Everyone brings a real presentation from their own calendar, something they will genuinely have to deliver in the next few weeks. That becomes the working material for the day, which means nobody rehearses an artificial topic and nobody leaves without having improved something they actually need.

Louisa Savva runs the day, working with the group and with each person individually. Feedback is direct and specific, given in a fixed format so it stays useful rather than vague or personal, and the group learns to give it to each other as well. The day includes:

A structure clinic: reducing the presentation you brought to a single-sentence recommendation before anyone touches a slide
Three timed practice rounds, each with a different brief and a different audience challenge
A camera round on the video platform your organisation actually uses, presenting to a group that deliberately gives very little back
Feedback after every round: what landed, what got in the way, one thing to change next time
Nerves work that is physical rather than motivational: breathing, pace, what to do with your hands, how to use the first thirty seconds
A questions drill covering interruptions, sceptical challenges and the question you were hoping nobody would ask

What people leave with

The point of the day is that the presentation you brought is measurably better by the end of it, and that you know why. Participants take away a rewritten version of their own material and a short, honest list of the delivery habits to keep and the ones to drop.

A rebuilt opening, recommendation and close for the presentation they brought
A one-page structure template that works for updates, proposals and decision requests
Their own recordings from the practice rounds
Four named delivery habits in their own words: two they are keeping and two they are dropping
Where an intact team attends together, an agreed set of norms for how presentations run in their meetings

Making it stick

The habit that comes back first is the long build-up, and it comes back under deadline pressure, usually with a deck somebody else started. Pursue Your Potential offers three things that interrupt it. A 60-day check-in brings the group back to work on what happened in real rooms, including the presentations that went badly and the reason why. One-to-one coaching is available for anyone facing a presentation that genuinely matters, and it is spent on that specific deck and that specific audience rather than on delivery in general. The participants’ managers get a short briefing, which counts for more than it sounds like it would, because a rebuilt opening only survives if the meetings people present in start expecting one.

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How much does Presenting With Impact cost?: Pursue Your Potential prices this programme per group rather than per seat, and quotes on request. The figure depends on group size, whether the workshop runs in person or virtually, and any travel involved. Send the group size, location and preferred dates and Louisa Savva will come back with a written quote.
How long is the programme?: The standard format is one full day. It can also run as two half-day sessions, usually a week apart, which gives participants a real presentation to try out in between and bring back for feedback. Both formats cover the same material and the same number of practice rounds.
Does it work as a virtual workshop or does it have to be in person?: It runs well in both formats and the virtual version is not a compromise. Presenting on camera is a skill in its own right, so a virtual group practises in exactly the setting where the skill is used, using their own laptop, lighting and platform. In-person groups still do a dedicated camera round for the same reason.
How many people can attend?: Between six and fourteen. The number is set by the format rather than by preference: everyone presents several times and receives individual feedback, and beyond fourteen there is not enough time in the day for that. Below six the group is too small to give a presenter a realistic audience.
How is this different from a general public speaking course?: Public speaking courses tend to focus on the set-piece speech to a large audience. This programme is built for the presentations people actually give at work: a recommendation to a steering group, a quarterly update, a proposal to a client, half of them on video calls. Participants work on a real presentation from their own calendar rather than a neutral exercise topic.

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