Presenting For Impact: It's influence 2 years on with Courtney Scales

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Courtney joined our Presenting For Impact workshop two years ago. Before the training, we recorded a podcast where she shared her thoughts on presenting, her confidence levels, and the challenges she faced at the time. What made this experience truly unique was the opportunity to follow up with Courtney two years later.

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We recorded another podcast to hear firsthand how the Presenting For Impact course had transformed her skills, confidence, and approach to public speaking.

Before the training, Courtney expressed how nervous she was before going on stage. That even though she may have seemed calm - she absolutely was not. Sweaty palms, shaking before going on stage, crisis moments, in survival mode.

Courtney's confidence in presenting, as she put it, was about a 3/10 at the time.

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Within our two day face-to-face workshop, we worked with Courtney, giving her news advanced skills and techniques to get the most out of presentations, get your audience engaged, and feel confident. Working on techniques such as storytelling, tone of voice, slide design and more, we started to see big improvements for Courtney already. Now two years on, the changes she has experienced are remarkable...

Now two years on from the training, we were in a unique position to record a second podcast with Courtney - to find out how the impact the workshop has been for her.

"Quite literally everything about the person who was educating two years ago is very different to this person that I am now."

Courtney now cannot wait to get on stage - and you can feel the difference and change in Courtney’s confidence just speaking to her about it. She’s confident, buzzing to get on stage, uses interactivity, and most of all; gets incredible feedback from her audience:

‍"People are now coming up to me and saying, ‘I never got it for six or seven years. And 45 minutes with you and I just got it!’"

Now presenting all around the UK with her own CPD company, with confidence, her career has changed and it's clear to see just how positive this has been for her:

‍"I was in Carlisle this week, i'm in York next week. I'm in Scotland the week after that. I'm in Norway. It's great - I feel like everyone's best friend getting just to share my knowledge. So everything has definitely changed. I'm no longer working from home behind the desk. I'm on the floor speaking side by side next to nurses."

Now, Courtney rates her confidence at a 9/10. She’s not only enjoying presenting but thriving on stage (we’ve had the pleasure of witnessing it), and her career has completely shifted—from working behind a desk to speaking across the UK, helping veterinary nurses along the way.

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