"As a speaker I know my domain well, but I don't know my audience well. Christopher helped identify my audience and customize my message to the audience's needs. Chris's energy and passion helps breathe new life into my talk, and ensure I stay focused on delivering the best talk possible. He helped me realize areas of my presenting skills I am good at and those where I need improvement.
Chris, you're a pretty funny guy too, and have a good grasp of what can make an audience laugh/cry/get engaged ☺."

"I have worked with Christopher on my TEDx Hamburg talk, and although I have given talks for almost two decades, I feel like I improved tremendously.
When presenting, I use my heart and it might end somewhat chaotic, as I sometimes forget that I am telling a new story to the audience. Christopher help me realize where my strengths are, and gently helped me to correct the chaos coming out of my many thoughts. He streamlined me, made me empathize and keep connected with the audience, as well as reassured me that I will do great on cameras.

After working with Christopher, I have a better understanding what is important for connecting with the audience. Lastly, and possibly the most importantly, Chris did it all without changing my personality. Christopher made me love the experience of presenting in front of cameras. I very much enjoyed working with him!"

"I found Chris’s coaching style to be personable yet professional.  After a focussed consultation period he designed a program tailored to my particular speaking profile ahead of a TEDx talk.  This was surprisingly dynamic. Chris offered feedback on a variety of factors such as body language, communication engagement and content narrative. This was paramount in delivering my talk and food for thought more broadly in my work.“

I was always afraid to speak without paper. She challenged me to go outside my comfort zone and speak from the heart. She gave me the tools and confidence to memorise my whole talk.

And it went great: I told my story – even without saying ‘uhm’. I can’t wait to be on stage again.

I can recommend Tara to everyone who wants more confidence in public speaking! I enjoyed working with her. Tara, thanks for everything and till next time!

„My challenge was to prepare a TED talk and to find the message in the “general store” of my topics and ideas. Chris met me 4 times in a period of 2 weeks to help me prepare my TEDx talk. At first I only had a vague idea and dumped everything on him. From meeting to meeting we then jointly condensed the idea which then filled the required 18 minutes. The result: My message is better received, I can formulate better and get to the heart of the matter and deliver jokes on the way. But: I still speak far to quickly – there is room for at least one additional session ;-).“ (translated from German)

„There are talks where you don’t have the feeling that you need to prepare much. Then there are TED Talks. A TED Talk has a certain structure, rhythm, maybe even rules. Thus I was happy that you wanted – and were able to! – introduce me to the secrets of TED. The regular sessions forced me to deal with my topic and my issues intensively and to speak with less fear (even though I was still nervous). Moreover I learnt a lot about dramaturgy and about keeping it short and clear. My talk transformed into a story with a great beginning and an equally exciting end. I have learnt a lot for which I am still thankful to you today because I try to tell a story in all of my talks now and try to abstain from slides. Five stars.“ (translated from German)

Tara really got to the heart of what I was trying to convey, helped me organise my thoughts, gave me insight on how to express myself clearly and with enthusiasm so that it felt natural. Success on the day; a well delivered talk that resulted in some business wins!

"Working with Christopher for my TEDx Frankfurt talk was a great learning. The first feeling which he inspired me was trust, that as long as I will remain open to his feedback, things will be just fine. And so it was. He challenged me until I narrowed down all my thoughts and experiences to one main idea. It was the most painful part, but the most valuable too."

I have very much enjoyed working with Tara. As a coach she was extremely positive, inspiring and stimulating. Tara succeeded in getting the best out of me – after every session with her I felt I had wings.

Since always, my presentations were sounding like a car race. I have always had this bad habit to speak too fast. I never took the time to breathe ;), and thus let the audience breathe.
During the coaching, regarding the content, I really got great input in simplifying the subjects I was presenting, to make them interesting to non-specialist. This is typically something that many scientists struggle with and I am part of them on this characteristic. 
But regarding delivery I got the most critical advice especially on posture and speech fluency on stage, something that nobody ever explained to me! It was quite an eye opener, because now when I listen to presentations I pay attention to these things and I can correlate the quality of the presentation to these parameters, even in science!!
I think mostly I could understand how the body language and the speech mode can make a dramatic change in the delivery of the presentation and also to which extend people listen to you! Now, I made a little challenge to myself; I will use my scientific conferences to experiment these two things and understand how it changes the outcome of the presentation! Brilliant tools, brilliant!

"Especially the suggestions about how to integrate interactions with the audience into my talk where fantastic and I still use them today when I give speeches. Thank you from the heart for this." (translated from German)

„To work with Christopher was not just a lot of fun due to his positive way of being but was also very instructive. Despite of my many presentations before Christopher was able to show me a lot of new things and together we developed new ideas. My talks have taken a very positive turn indeed. Recommended for great speakers and everyone who wants to become one – life long learning!“ (translated from German)

Tara has helped me so much preparing for my TEDx talk. Not just with the English, which I got lots of compliments on, but also by challenging me to get right to the bottom of what I really wanted to say. Thank you for your help and inspiration, Tara

„Before having met Christopher it was hard for me to create a “golden thread” through my presentations. It was especially valuable to me that we looked at my talk draft again and again so that it developed slowly and it wasn’t that I came with a finished draft and then I had to change everything afterwards. Since my TEDx Talk I always try to start with an anecdote or story – this captivates the audience from the beginning and this is one of my learnings.“ (translated from German)

I can’t thank you enough for guiding me through this process, and holding my hand through it all. Your calm and reassuring voice got me through it! And thank you for all of your help shaping the script. The jewel that I most loved, that you taught me, is the ‘Ladder of Abstraction’. Priceless! Thank you!!!!

„Christopher helps very much to identify your own presentation strengths and to be yourself on stage.“ (translated from German)

„Before my talk my greatest concern was the strict time limit. Also in terms of humor and story dramaturgy I felt challenged. The most important thing during the coaching process was therefore the feedback to my narrative and dramaturgy of my talk – which parts are easily accessible, which are superfluous? How can a logical but also interesting sequence of the different narrative elements look like? I highly appreciated that my story was not treated according to a fixed scheme but that it was adapted to my person with great sensitivity. 
Since TEDx I am getting a lot more requests for talks and I am much more at ease with “little” groups of only 50-100 people – easy after a talk in front of 500 people! At TEDx I allowed myself for the first time to actually approach a talk with fun and joy. I had this wonderful moment when I was able to improvise. This makes a great difference to the delivery. A great experience!“ (translated from German)

Thank you so much for helping me with my TED talk, I am very impressed by how you were able to help a ‘hopeless nervous case’ like me to deliver a great speech. I’ve had so many people come up to me saying how touched they were… million thanks!