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With decades of experience working in the conference industry, Roy is regularly called upon to advise clients on ways to improve the effectiveness of their forthcoming events. By helping clients clarify their communication objectives, he provides invaluable help in ensuring that the conference 'works'. Clients regularly describe his involvement as 'invaluable'.


Conference Consulting

For a recent global conference for a major corporation, Roy advised the most senior executives and the conference team on the most appropriate ways to convey sensitive and unpalatable messages for the staff, whilst ensuring widespread 'buy-in' to fundamental changes that were to be implemented across a particular division.

Presentation Skills Coaching

A conference production company that had worked with a particular client for many years recognised that the speakers for a forthcoming conference were not as skilled as they needed to be. Roy was drafted in to give a presentation on how to give a presentation to the entire marketing team, to help them re-structure their presentations in order to engage with their audience, and convey 'dry' information in a more lively and interesting way. Each of the speakers then spent an hour 'one-on-one' going through their presentations and making specific improvements. It was reported that their performances on the day were 'radically improved' as a result of Roy's coaching.

On another occasion he was given the 2pm graveyard shift to teach 170 senior doctors how to give a presentation. This is what Roy's production company client wrote afterwards;

“I have known Roy for 25 years. We have worked together on many occasions in TV, radio and on the conference and meetings circuit — and he has always been a joy and, of course, a professional. An example is on one occasion we brought Roy in to facilitate a three-day conference (in Barcelona) for a major international pharma company. A large part of the conference was an extended and detailed discussion about the merits of a complex drug for an audience of 170 senior doctors from all around the world, Roy handled it superbly. He THEN had to give them a presentation on how to give a presentation at 2pm, the notorious graveyard shift, and with an audience where only 5% used English as their first language. The fact that the audience were enthralled and ranked the session so highly is a testament to Roy’s skill. Would I recommend Roy? Absolutely yes. He does what it says on the tin — and he does it very, very well indeed.” Richard Cobourne, Producer and Director at On Screen Productions Ltd

Business Coaching

It can be lonely at the top of an organisation, Roy is often consulted as a well-informed outsider to be a 'sounding board'. Although not someone who markets 'coaching' as one of his core services, Roy has built up such a level of trust with senior executives around the world, they often call or email 'to pick his brains'.

Video Interviewer

On numerous occasions Roy has interviewed a large number of executives and client customers in the lead up to an event. He owns HD mini-dv high-end Sony camcorders, microphones and lighting kit. In many cases he has also edited the material too. The resulting videos are then used throughout the conference agenda: sometimes as 'spring-boards' for discussion or as punctuation throughout the event. To view a seection of videos has created for clients that have been used for training and marketing purposes please click here.