Meredith Lyle
speech coach
Precise; practise out loud
The Presentation
Ingrid designs bridges and dreads microphones. Her project’s funding depends on one presentation to the board, and in a month she must learn structure, voice and how to handle hostile questions from a sceptical chairman.
Planned · not started yet
Practical life skills Ambition Second chances Workplace Lightly witty Hopeful
The premise
Ingrid designs bridges and dreads microphones. Her project’s funding depends on one presentation to the board, and in a month she must learn structure, voice and how to handle hostile questions from a sceptical chairman.
The protagonist
Ingrid Sato-Bellamy — Quiet engineer presenting to the board in a month
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Ruben Danjuma
stage actor
Expressive; your body tells the story
Prof. Cassius Moreland
rhetoric scholar
Classical; persuasion has a structure
How the story moves
One month of preparation to the board meeting, which does not go to plan; how she recovers from a mistake on stage matters more than the script.
What readers take away
- Structuring a talk
- Designing clear slides
- Voice and body language
- Managing nerves
- Handling questions
- Rehearsal methods
- Speaking with data
- Recovering from mistakes
- Open and close a talk memorably
- Use stories and data together
- Present remotely
- Handle hostile questions
The books
- 1The invitation Planned
- 2The rehearsal Planned
- 3The board Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.