GROUP COACHING FOR SPEAKERS AND LEADERS
Bring Your Presentation. Work Through the Challenge. Leave With a Stronger Way Forward.
You’ve grown. Your ideas have evolved. The presentation or message that worked two years ago may no longer reflect the speaker, trainer, facilitator, or leader you are today.
John’s group coaching gives you a place to work on the presentations and speaking challenges in front of you right now.
This is not another program where you simply sit, listen, and take notes. You’ll bring real work into the virtual room, test new approaches, receive direct coaching, and refine your presentation alongside a small group of fellow speakers.
- Developing or updating a keynote or signature presentation?
- Preparing for a high-stakes speaking opportunity?
- Working to make your stories clearer and more memorable
- Ready for your message and delivery to reflect how much you’ve grown?
- Looking for informed feedback in a supportive environment?
Your Presentation Should Keep Growing With You
Neuroscience shows us that growth changes the way we think, connect, and lead.
That means the story, strategy, or presentation that worked two years ago may not reflect who you are—or what your audience needs from you—today.
Group coaching creates a place to keep doing that work over time. Instead of receiving feedback once and walking away, you can apply what you learn, return with new questions, and continue refining your work from one month to the next.
Why Group Coaching Works (According to Your Brain)
There’s a reason the right coaching environment can accelerate your growth more than another book, bootcamp, or webinar.
It reflects how the brain learns:
- FOCUSED ATTENTION
Bring a real presentation, story, opening, or challenge into the session and give it the attention it deserves. - IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK
Test an approach, receive direct coaching, and begin making adjustments while the work is still in front of you. - EMOTIONAL SAFETY
Practice, experiment, ask questions, and refine your ideas in a supportive small-group environment.
Real growth doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens through practice, feedback, reflection, and connection.
In group coaching, you’ll also learn from the work happening around you. Every participant’s question, breakthrough, and coaching experience creates another opportunity to strengthen your own work.
“John took my keynote to the next level. He marries storytelling with brain science so it sticks.”
— Ali Ingersoll, Keynote Speaker
“The skills I learned helped me not just engage my audience, but help them follow through and change.”
— Renee Ivey, Crisis Leadership Speaker
“John didn’t just coach me on speaking—he helped me build the confidence to call myself a public speaker.”
— Callie Russell, History Channel’s Alone, Season 7
Six Month Group Coaching with John F. Edwards, CSP
Beginning in October, the group will meet once a month for six months.
Each session gives you an opportunity to bring new work, continue refining an existing presentation, and apply what you learned during the previous month.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
- ✅ A current presentation, keynote, workshop, or signature talk
- ✅ Stories, openings, closings, and transitions
- ✅ Presentation structure and audience engagement
- ✅ Voice, pace, presence, and delivery
- ✅ An upcoming speaking opportunity or communication challenge
- ✅ Neuroscience-backed ways to help your ideas connect and stick
- Bring your work as it currently exists, and we’ll work from there.
PROGRAM DETAILS
- Six-month coaching experience
- One live group-coaching session per month
- October through March
- Sessions held live on Zoom
- Small-group, interactive environment
- Minimum of four participants required to confirm the cohort
Once the cohort is confirmed, our team will coordinate the recurring monthly meeting time based on the calendars of the registered participants.
INVESTMENT
$200 per month for six months
A two-month deposit of $400 reserves your place and covers your first two months. The remaining monthly payments will be invoiced one month in advance.
After you submit the registration form, a member of our team will send your deposit invoice separately. Your place will be reserved once payment is received.
Continue The Experience At Speech On A Beach
Myrtle Beach
November 12–14, 2026
For speakers who want to step away from everyday distractions and immerse themselves more fully in their work, Speech on a Beach offers an intensive, hands-on presentation-development experience with John and a small group of fellow speakers.
The six-month coaching cohort stands on its own, but it can also help you begin preparing for the deeper work you’ll do at Speech on a Beach.