One to one & groups
When the camera is on, clarity matters.
Television, radio, podcast and press. Message discipline, camera craft and the composure to handle the question you hoped would not come. Led by a working broadcaster, not a consultant who once did a course.
Who it is for.
People who are about to be interviewed and would rather not find out on air how they handle it. Founders doing press around a launch, academics and clinicians explaining their work to a general audience, charity leaders speaking on a difficult story, executives named as the organisation’s spokesperson.
Also teams who need more than one person capable of going on the record, so it does not all rest on whoever happens to be available.
What we work on
Message discipline, bridging, and how to answer the question you were asked while still saying the thing you came to say. Plus camera craft: eyeline, stillness, and what the lens does to energy.
How a session runs
Realistic mock interviews, recorded, with the hostile questions included. We play it back, work on what happened, and go again. Most people are notably better by the third take.
Crisis and hard questions
Separately, we prepare people for the interview they do not want: the mistake, the complaint, the thing that went wrong. Staying composed and honest under that is a trainable skill.
Led by Ash
Ash is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author who has reported and presented from over 50 countries for outlets including the BBC, Channel 5, Sky News, the Telegraph and the Times. He is the resident travel expert on BBC Morning Live and lectures on the MA in Journalism at City University London.
As a consultant he has media-trained over 500 academics, doctors, scientists and soldiers. He knows what an interviewer is actually listening for, because he is the one asking.
Before you commit
Try us first. Thirty minutes, free.
You do not have to decide anything today. Book a discovery call and we will ask what you are working towards, tell you honestly whether we can help, and give you something useful either way. If we are not the right people, we will point you towards someone who is.
Investment.
Single session
£175
Start whenever you are ready
5-session course
£625
Save £250
10-session course
£1,000
Save £750
