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Join Jay’s Public Speaking Accelerator

8-week virtual program For Busy business-builders. low-commitment, high-impact.

🔥 All registrants receive a 1:1 coaching call with me, 6 group coaching calls, and 3 rounds of personalized video notes.

Plus video lessons, reusable templates, and prompted work to push forward on critical elements of speaking success.

📅 Join the waitlist

Registration opens in a few weeks. Next cohort August 2025.

get notified + Get early-bird pricing:

Early-bird price: $1,850 - Regular price: $2,350

Everything you need to Give better Talks to bigger audiences (For free or for a fee)

Whether you plan to speak for free to drive marketing results, charge a fee to generate direct revenue, or both, this accelerator has been built to address the hidden elements of the public speaking business and craft which our peers tend to ignore—but which the pros reliably use to deliver incredible speeches and drive measurable results.

Most talks are blog posts with a run time.

Your talk will stir hearts and engage minds.

How the program works:

We follow a set format to ensure the accelerator actually accelerates progress:

LEARN: each week, get a blend of video lessons and topic-specific collections of resources, templates, and examples.

PRACTICE: you’ll then write + perform elements of your speech, following my prompts and directions.

IMPROVE: finally, you’ll make rapid progress and receive personalized support on your execution thanks to…

• your 60-min 1:1 coaching call with me (recorded and private)

• 6 group coaching calls (optionally available, for Q&A and workshopping drafts)

• 3 rounds of personalized video notes from me on rehearsal recordings you submit

Program Agenda:

PRIOR TO KICKOFF:

• Schedule your one-on-one: you’ll start with a private, one-hour session to work on the foundations of your speech and/or set clear intentions for the program to get the most accomplished.

• Access the strategy module: you’ll also get immediate access to our private Accelerator HQ page, including a module dedicated to strategy, which offers video lessons, guides, and templates covering marketing, selling, pitching to get booked, setting/negotiating pricing (if you charge a fee), and more:

After kickoff: 4 Modules across 8 weeks

1. Premise and Structure: Strengthen your ideas by finding your refreshing reframe on a familiar topic, then structure your speech for maximum impact, buy-in, and flow. Here, you’ll be introduced to two useful systems you can use forever: the Barbell Method and the Dialogue Outline.

2. Openers: learn about, write, perform, and improve one of the most important yet difficult elements of your speaking

3. Closers: learn about, write, perform, and improve one of the other most important yet difficult elements of speaking

4. Storytelling: learn about, write, perform, and improve telling memorable signature stories from the stage or screen

These lessons are customized for public speaking, but the lessons and skills will serve you everywhere you show up!

The bar is SO low to give great talks.

You will leap over it.

From scattered thinking ➡️ to focused message.

From passive audience ➡️ to passionate fans.

From “wall of smarts” talks ➡️ to powerful presentations

Watch me Work with Clients in realtime

With permission, I’ve published several of my 1:1 coaching interactions, edited for runtime.

These are not accelerator participants, but this will give you a feel for how I think and how I can support you!

For the last few years, I've spent most of my time coaching and consulting dozens of entrepreneurs, consultants, creators, business authors, and small business owners to help them package and communicate their expertise for impact. That means messaging, speaking, and thought leadership, with a big idea we develop and they eventually own in the market. I help others compete on the impact of their ideas, NOT the volume of their marketing. When you matter more, you need to hustle for attention less.

I've also partnered with brands like Salesforce, Mailchimp, Wistia, and GoDaddy to help improve their storytelling. 

“It was like a magic trick … I was honestly blown away.”

—Steve Pratt, veteran entrepreneur, marketer, and podcasting OG, on his coaching calls with me.

Steve is a brand consultant & cofounder of Pacific Content, which built podcasts for Slack, DELL, Zendesk, and more.

Most speaker trainings pose 2 problems for business communicators and leaders:

1. We feel too pulled away from the "real" work. We have so much going on that we can't hit pause and go learn or practice, and we're also worried most speaker trainings aren't tailored for (A) the business world and (B) producing the work DURING the training. So we have some fun (or maybe cringe) doing group exercises, but we haven't made tangible progress on actual work ... all while we're stressed about taking time away from the rest of our jobs.

2. We aren't well-served by most trainings, which emphasize the extremes. Most individuals and orgs focus on beginners (i.e. the fear of speaking) or outliers (paid keynote speakers; execs and celebs addressing huge audiences constantly, with massive stakes each time). The thing is, you aren't a beginner. You're a professional communicator. But you're also not spending much time thinking about all the talks you'll give this quarter to 20,000 attendees or millions of viewers.

This accelerator is tailor-made for business builders using speaking as a powerful marketing approach, but not a career path

“A night & day difference from when I came to him.”

Justin Moore is a well-known entrepreneur and business owner in the creator economy who trusted me to help him develop his signature talk when the stakes were highest: he was looking to expand his revenue by meeting new types of clients, meeting his existing buyers earlier in their journey, and building the talk associated with his new book to get on bigger stages.

FAQ’s

Do I need to attend live? What if I have conflicts?

Everything will be recorded, and all video lessons (except Week 1) happens entirely asynchronously via email too. The most important live element are the office hours to get questions answered and workshop materials with me.

Is this for paid speakers or speaking for free to drive leads?

Both! Past registrants have included paid professional speakers, business builders who speak for free in support of their marketing, and people who do both. There’s an entire Strategy Module in our Accelerator HQ which has you covered for all things marketing, selling, pricing/negotiating your speaker fee (if you’d like to quote a fee and/or raise your existing rate). That said, this accelerator primarily focuses on the foundational, transformational elements of public speaking and crafting your signature speech, which too few professionals understand or master.

What’s your refund policy?

I’ve had people contact me for prior programs about radical changes in circumstance, where they really need their money back to cover that life change or issue. To be sympathetic to those cases, I’m offering a full refund to anyone who requests it up until 7 days prior to your first live session with me. After that, I do not offer any refunds.

The Next cohort starts this August

Join the waitlist to receive access to early-bird pricing when enrollment opens.

Common needs we address together:

🏗️ Structuring engaging speeches

Turning too many ideas into a succinct talk 🎯

✅ Packaging and pitching your speech

Translating ideas you usually write into effective spoken word ♻️

❤️ Crafting stories for the stage

Whether, when, and how to use CTAs in your talks 🚦

Still not sure? Contact me here

We can swap emails or even schedule a call

I will NOT push you to attend. Unhappy registrants hurt my business. (Also? My heart.) If you contact me, I’ll be honest with you. Maybe the intensive isn’t right for you, maybe it is, or maybe it’s right for you but just not at this time.

Contact me, and we can either swap emails or set up a 10-min call.

WHAT’s INCLUDED:

More about my speaking

For years, I’ve been a professional keynote speaker able to charge five-figures per speech and earn six-figures through my speaking. I’ve also given hundreds of virtual talks in support of my business, some organized by me, most as the guest speaker at others’ virtual events.

I’ve also advised dozens of experts, entrepreneurs, and execs as my clients to help them write and speak with greater impact as thought leaders and storytellers. Because it’s not just what you know that ensures others care. It’s what you say, how you say it, and how it makes them feel.

This is a skill, and the crafting of a signature talk is a repeatable process.

Today, I’m mostly off the road to stay home with my kids. I’m much more focused on empowering others to craft their signature talks, their differentiated messaging, and their underlying premise and IP—the big idea you own, and the thinking behind it, empowering you to develop, distribute, and monetize your thinking.

Watch me in action:

I’ve built a career helping exceptional experts become stronger storytellers

I’m also grateful to have partnered with brands like these: