MEDIA TRAINING
Public speaking courses
Connect with your audience and engage them — on a panel, before a committee, or presenting to a boardroom.
Understand how to prepare for panels, debates, committees and public speaking opportunities, and learn to communicate with confidence in front of any audience.
Whether you're speaking before a live audience, appearing on a panel, answering questions before a committee, or presenting to a boardroom – knowing how to connect with your audience and engage them is key.
A public speaking course from Press Association Academy will equip you with the techniques and know-how to perform in pressured situations and to develop your own speaking style and confidence.
You'll learn how to structure your words and conquer your nerves, working with experienced broadcasters.
We welcome enquiries from delegates from diverse work backgrounds looking for varied outcomes: from those in generally internal-facing roles looking to build their presenting skills as they take a step into more senior jobs, to senior executives speaking at global conferences, industry events, investor updates and board meetings.
Courses
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Panel Speaker Training
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Select Committee Training
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Public Speaker Training
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On-Camera Presenter Training
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Communicate with Impact Masterclass
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Why train with Press Association Academy?
- Newsroom connected with national and international reach
- More than 50 years' experience training journalists and PRs
- All courses are expert-led by working media professionals
- Trainers have a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
- Small class sizes allow for practical, interactive exercises
Our trainers
Meet some of the Press Association Academy trainers who lead our public speaking courses.
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Bridgid Nzekwu
Managing Director
Bridgid leads PA's training company, Press Association Academy, which provides market-leading courses in journalism, media and crisis training, PR, communications and digital content. She's a former broadcast journalist and was PA's Director of Media Training prior to becoming MD. In 2018, she was named 'Outstanding Woman in Professional Services' at the Precious Awards, recognising more than a decade of excellence working with clients across the public and private sectors. With a career in national TV news spanning more than 25 years, she has been a producer, political reporter, specialist financial correspondent and anchor. She was a Finalist at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2009, in her role as a financial reporter for Channel 4 News. She was a reporter and anchor for Channel 4 News for 10 years and has also presented news for the BBC, ITV and Channel 5.
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Pauline Haase
Head of Media Training
A highly skilled and experienced media trainer working with CEOs and senior leaders in all industries, Pauline has more than 20 years' experience in broadcast journalism including at BBC Breakfast, ITV News, This Morning, and Lorraine. She is an award-winning TV Series Producer/Editor.
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Liz Isemann
Media Training & Operations Manager
Liz Isemann is PA's Media Training Manager responsible for ensuring the smooth running of media training courses, planning all necessary logistics and client requirements. Liz's logistics skills stem from working as a project manager for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and her client liaison experience is essential to her role in account management for new and existing clients to PA.
I honestly thought that the whole day was fabulous!!! You really couldn’t have done anymore for us. The combination of practical exercises and feedback was particularly useful, it was a challenging day (in a very good way) in that we really had to think, learn and adapt quickly. I know the team are significantly better prepared for media interviews after this training.
The team is flexible, slick, well-resourced and overall simply first class. Their expertise and knowledge have been invaluable. I was delighted with our choice, so I’d have no hesitation in recommending them
The lifelike interview settings and tasks that PA Media Training deal in replicate perfectly the real-world feel of a tough media interview and help the delegates come out of the day feeling much more confident that they can play an active role in representing their organisation.
What a great session we had on Communicating with Impact. Bridgid shared practical techniques to enhance and develop our communications skills so we can present and speak publicly or to senior stakeholders with confidence and impact. I speak for my whole team in highly recommending Bridgid Nzekwu if you are after effective and fun communication training.
The training scenarios are as real to life as you could possibly get. They took considerable time to research our current plans and issues and used these to design a series of true to life radio and TV interviews. The team is outstanding, and their expertise and knowledge has been invaluable. Book them – you’ll be glad you did.
PA Media Training were efficient, well organised and genuinely lovely people to deal with and, importantly for us, able to provide flexibility around our needs to create the bespoke training we required. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them for further training or to recommend them to other organisations.
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Talk to the Press Association Academy team about dates, fees and bespoke training options.
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