Speaker Development

Everything you need to grow a speaking career, all in one place

Imagine someone created a map to guide you through your speaking career. And then they added to that map all of the tools and assistance you would need along your journey. What would that be worth?

That’s what we’re doing here at Pomona Partners. For all of the talent we work with, whether you’re just starting out in our Academy, an experienced Professional speaker, or in our Premier tier.

We’ve created an assessment tool to help you understand your strengths and weaknesses, across all of the critical aspects of growing a career from speaking.

We’re backing this with a constant flow of new training content, targeted to overcome our talent’s most common weaknesses and frustrations. Our assessment tool points you to the training content you need.

And we’ve built a panel of expert coaches and third party suppliers to address all of your critical needs, giving you speaker training, slide design, marketing support, photography and even support on publishing.

The Talent Map

The Talent Map is our unique approach to helping each speaker assess where they are across every aspect of their speaking career. It then matches their stage to content from our training library, and recommends coaches and third party services to help to overcome any barriers. It forms the core of our training and development offer.

Training Library

Our training library is a growing archive of articles, videos and case studies from our coaches, in-house experts, and our speakers, all sharing their learning on how to overcome some of the challenges that speakers can face in their careers. From the most basic tips on speaking, mic technique, camera work and dress, to advanced guidance on producing the best showreels, photography, and stage presence.

Development Lead: Monika Neall

Our Academy is powered by experience and expertise. Our partners deliver development services to academy members to help them to advance their skills, expand their reach, and achieve their goals.

We create and deliver core skills training in profile, proposition and performance. We curate training from trusted coaches for you to invest in.

Co-ordinating our Academy and client development programmes is the job of Monika Neall. Monika has long experience in talent development, having run one of the UK’s most successful literary programmes for young people, which counts many current stars amongst its alumni. She has also trained and mentored people in the arts and the third sector, bringing broad experience of different approaches and techniques.

Want to access our development programme?

If you like the sound of our development offer, then why not apply to join us? Follow the link to register on our platform.

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