• Do you want and need individual attention? 
• Do you have a specific presentation that you want to polish?
• Are you ready to get specific about your content and delivery choices?
• Are the stakes too high to wait any longer?

My job as your speaking coach is to help you release your power and potential as a speaker. You already have all the tools you need to be interesting and engaging. When you're not in front of an audience, you're intelligent, articulate and probably funny. I can help you be all of that and more in front of 5 or 500 people.

The foundation for your magnificence already exists. You have a rhythm and style all your own. Utilizing over 35 years of acting, directing, coaching and business presentation experience, I tailor my coaching to you. I help you to stretch and grow in a safe environment of positive feedback and constructive criticism.

I will bring out your best and coach you to levels of excellence that you have not been able to tap into on your own. Regardless of your level of experience or expertise, I will show you step-by-step how to build and deliver a powerful presentation that gets results.

Sell More.

He came to me because he was striking out. And he didn't know why.

He was presenting a logical and concise case. He explained what his company did and how they did it. And time after time he struck out. People would listen politely and nod their heads. Then they'd get up and leave. No leads. No business generation. No new clients.

He's heard about my work with stories. He knew stories were more effective than what he was doing but he didn't feel comfortable telling them because he didn't know how to do it.

So he drove down from Denver to Colorado Springs to my studio. We re-worked his presentation. I helped him choose the three stories that would sell him and his service. We designed an opening, a strategic sequence and a closing with a call to action.

In his follow up session, he gave me the testimonial that you can watch on this website. Watch it. You'll hear how he increased his closing ratio from 1% to 40% after spending one hour with me. If you make presentations to get new clients, I can help you. Watch the video. Then call me.

Watch the video at the top right of this page.

“I wanted to be more effective in my speaking.  I had done everything I could think of to do to learn and improve my story-telling – short of actually doing a program with Doug.  But, no amount of reading, study, or practice, would have been sufficient to teach me what I learned in the retreat with Doug.  Doug knows his technique so completely and can teach it so felicitously that he is able to take a motley crew of story-tellers and immediately improve their method and technique, despite a wide variation in the skill level and approach of each storyteller. Even when I was not the one being coached, I found that what Doug was telling the others was as useful to me as it was to the person being coached at the moment.  After one day of coaching sessions, the stories that we told the second day were DRAMATICALLY transformed from the stories that we had told the first day.  I saw truly dramatic improvement not only in my own story and its telling but, to my amazement, I saw it in every other participant’s story and telling as well.  The proof was in the pudding!  It was time and money well spent for every person who was there!                                    Dr. Larry Donnithorne, President, Colorado Christian University

Where do you want to go? Let me help you get there.

• Keynote speech development
• Leadership development
• Sales presentation design and delivery
• Collaborative speech writing
• The Dynamite Speech System
• Training program design & delivery
• Story development
  • choosing the story
  • crafting the story using The Nine Steps
  • delivering the story - performance
• Message branding using the Phrase That Pays
• Professional speaking career coaching

"Doug – I spoke last Wednesday to 1200 people.  I nailed it.  It was the storytelling, humor and staging that you’ve taught me. Thanks for your coaching. You’ve got a gift."

       Elaine Allison, President, Presentations Plus, Inc.

"After delivering an address to over 200 applauding Silicon Valley managers, people thronged around me. They specifically mentioned how much they enjoyed the stories. Doug’s Story Theater Retreat was an investment with hugely positive payoffs." 
       Don Maruska, Author of How Great Decisions Are Made

"Doug has easy-to-follow steps and formulas to help you be the most amazing and dynamic speaker that you have the power to be. Doug is awesome!"
       Laura Lopez, former Coca Cola executive