🤔 Who am I and how can I help you?I'm a former fashion designer and recovering actor, a speaker and podcast host.But mostly, I'm a speaker and acting coach with 30 years experience of training and coaching teams and individuals.I have an acting diploma, a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing and English Literature and I am a certified NLP practitioner.💫 As a coach, it’s my job to make speakers excited! Excited about sharing their ideas and message with an audience, whether it’s for their business, to educate or to entertain. ❓ How? I use my acting training to teach you the physical techniques of public speaking, presentation, and performance. But, more importantly, I work to shape your content using the right stories that'll go to the heart of your audience and compelling visuals that won’t always contain words (shocking! 😱)It's my job to develop your self-awareness so you're comfortable and confident with yourself and your content. The outcome is that you believe your message, have fun with your content and can’t wait to jump on the stage! "You're just so easy to work with Jackie because you've got this wonderful mix of gentle graceful genius but also quite tenaciously persistent at moving people through the steps that they need to work on to get to the end." Shelley Rostlund, Brand Compass “I knew I had a talk, and I knew I had something to say [ . . .] Having been a teacher I'd have done my best with it, but you just put the blinking icing on the cake, Jackie. With a great big cherry on the top and that's what made the difference. Thank you.” Ella Orr, Founder, Much More Social💥 For the Power To Speak and Speaking About Speaking LIVE podcasts, I talk to speakers and speaking coaches, entrepreneurs, business and thought leaders about their journey and how they discovered the POWER TO SPEAK.