Ovid works with CEOs, executives, leaders of nonprofit organizations and foundations, authors, politicians, entertainers and entrepreneurs. We typically do one-on-one coaching, group coaching, or customized workshops.

Most individual trainings take a half-day. When working on-camera with groups, Ovid generally trains 3 or 4 people in a half day session. Since the work is intense, and people's energy peaks at a certain point, we stop when you've reached your best performance. If you need to do both message development and on-camera work, we might schedule two half days - one for the content development, the other for practice on-camera.

Each client's needs are different, so each training session is different. But the goal is the same: to give you techniques for directing the flow of an interview and delivering your messages concisely and persuasively. We use the on-camera work to teach you how to answer the deceptively difficult "softball" questions as well as tricky, tangential or hostile questions -- without making the interviewer feel that you're taking over the show or spitting out lines written by your PR department.

To begin with, we make sure your material is top notch - strategic, engaging, and persuasive. During delivery training, we help you make a genuine connection to both your material and your audience. After all, if you can't get 100% behind your message, why should anyone else? If you have any physical tics or gestures or phobias that may be limiting your effectiveness as a presenter, we work on those as well.

Yes. We've done this for many clients. In some cases, it means reshaping the material in a way that is most comfortable for you. In other cases, it means making direct behavioral changes can lead to increased confidence and less fear. Sometimes it requires a paradigm or role shift - a new way of conceptualizing your role as a public speaker or a different way of framing your audience.

Many of our clients are excellent public speakers. But they've discovered that a live three-minute morning show interview, or a remote, black box interview pose very different challenges. Speaking on television is an art form all its own and well worth mastering. Print and radio pose their own unique challenges.