Story & Speaking Counsel

Dramatically
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Because the whole world is a story.

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Paul Dornan

Most speeches and presentations fail before the speaker opens their mouth.

Not because they don't know their subject or haven't rehearsed enough. But because they've forgotten what a room actually is - a gathering of individual human beings, each quietly waiting to feel spoken to.

I help you remember.

What I offer isn't presentation coaching. It's closer to working together in a writers' room - thinking, talking, laughing, and thinking some more to find the big original story behind the story that only you can tell. The one that stops clocks and starts conversations. The one that makes every person listening feel seen, heard, challenged. The one they're sure was meant for them alone.

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Aspen Insurance BUPA Faber Academy Professional Speakers Association

The biggest room of your career.Maybe you've been asked to speak to the biggest room of your career. You know your subject inside out - almost too well to see the wood for the trees. But beyond the detail and the data, what's the big truth you actually want to say?

The pitch that has to land.Maybe you have an important pitch or presentation coming up. You have the strategy, the plan, the actions, the Hows, the Wheres, the Whos. But when someone asks you the most important W - Why - you find yourself reaching for the slide deck.

The bigger idea you know is in you.Maybe you're a professional speaker who's doing fine but knows there's a bigger, bolder, more original idea in you somewhere. The seismic one. The one that connects everything you've done and takes audiences somewhere none of them has seen yet.

That's exactly where we start.

Paul working with a client
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Our time together took me from confused, stuck and blocking my own way, to inspired, clear and reconnected to my authenticity. Paul's curiosity shifted my mindset - I'm no longer thinking about the speaker I should be. I'm connecting to the speaker I am.

Sam Bishop
International Keynote Speaker

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