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, business 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 message, your speaking, and the business behind it alongside a small group of fellow speakers.
Are you:
- Ready for your message to reflect your growth, clarity, and power?
- Leading teams or events where your words drive outcomes?
- Stepping into bigger rooms, roles, or responsibilities?
- Prepping for a new keynote or signature talk?
- Working through a speaking-business challenge, from positioning and marketing to getting hired and generating repeat business?
- Looking for a trusted place to bring the question you can’t quite solve on your own?
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 talk that worked two years ago may not reflect the speaker, trainer, facilitator or leader, you’ve become today.
If you’re feeling that gap, let’s talk.
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 activates several of the conditions that support learning and behavior change:
- 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. RECIPROCAL LEARNING
Learn from the questions, coaching, experiences, and breakthroughs happening throughout the room.
You don’t have to be the person in the coaching chair to have the breakthrough.
Sometimes someone else’s question unlocks your answer.
“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
“The skills I learned helped me not just engage my audience, but help them follow through and change.”
— Renee Ivey, Crisis Leadership Speaker
"John took my keynote to the next level. He marries storytelling with brain science so it sticks.”
— Ali Ingersoll, Keynote Speaker
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, apply what you discovered during the previous month, and get real-time coaching on whatever speaking or business challenge is in front of you.
WHAT CAN YOU BRING TO THE VIRTUAL ROOM?
Your message
Clarify what you stand for, the problem you solve, and what you want your audience to think, feel, or do. Your presentation
Keynotes, workshops, signature talks, stories, openings, closings, transitions, and audience engagement. Your storytelling
Strengthen stories, create intrigue, increase emotional impact, make the audience the hero, and build stronger callbacks. Your delivery
Voice, pace, presence, confidence, questions, pauses, humor, and those high-stakes moments when delivery matters most. Your audience strategy
Strengthen audience value, anticipate resistance, increase relevance, and create ideas that connect and stick. Your positioning
Strengthen your speaker positioning, credibility, introductions, and how you communicate the value you bring. Your speaking business
Explore marketing, getting hired, referrals, repeat business, proposals, opportunities, and the business behind the platform. Whatever is in front of you right now
Bring an upcoming engagement, a rough idea, a business challenge, or simply the question you’ve been wrestling with.- IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE PRESENTATION.
The cohort is designed around the real work happening in the room. We’ll work on the content, the craft, the opportunities, and the business of speaking based on what matters most to you and the group.
Your message
John F. Edwards is a globally recognized speaker and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) with over 30 years of experience helping leaders, speakers, trainers and facilitators communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact. Known for blending neuroscience with storytelling, John coaches speakers to elevate their message, sharpen their delivery, and connect with audiences in ways that stick.
He’s coached first-time presenters and seasoned pros alike, helping them refine signature talks, build executive presence, and step into high-stakes moments with intention and presence. With clients ranging from NASA to Fortune 100 execs, John brings insight, humor, and hands-on tools to every session.
John is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a distinction earned by fewer than 18% of professional speakers worldwide, and the only speaker to ever earn perfect 5.0 ratings five years running at the Center for Leadership Excellence.
PROGRAM DETAILS
- Six-month group coaching experience.
- One live group-coaching session per month
- October through March
- 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 participants’ availability.
INVESTMENT
$200 per month for six months ($1,200 total investment)
Once the cohort is confirmed, a two-month deposit of $400 reserves your place and covers your first two months. The remaining four monthly payments of $200 will be invoiced one month in advance.
After you submit the registration form and the minimum cohort is confirmed, our team will send your $400 deposit invoice. Your place is confirmed 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.