I’m on a mission: to eliminate the ums and erms when delivering presentations. Public speaking is a powerful vehicle for driving change and sharing ideas, yet it remains one of the most common sources of workplace stress. When staff members struggle with delivery, high-impact messages lose their resonance, and the presenters themselves experience a heavy toll on their professional wellbeing. This practical session directly addresses the subtheme "Resilience from Within: Skills for Sustainable Strength" by empowering staff to elevate their public speaking and storytelling skills, aiming to increase their professional impact and reduce presentation-related anxiety.

Participants will build tangible communication skills. The session will break down the mechanics of impactful delivery, teaching staff how to transform complex information into compelling narratives that captivate an audience. Alongside these storytelling frameworks, attendees will learn actionable techniques to manage the psychological and physical stress responses that often accompany public speaking. In short: great design and great delivery.

By replacing anxiety with capability, staff members will dramatically improve how their messages are received. More importantly, building this competence fosters genuine confidence, protecting personal wellbeing and transforming public speaking into a sustainable, empowering work practice. Attendees will walk away not only looking at public speaking from a different lens but with the internal resilience needed to share their voice safely and sustainably in any professional setting.

Sebastian Cortes Lopez, Product Owner (Current Students), CIO Group