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Deborah Hall

Deborah is a journalist and broadcaster who has carved out a unique career in corporate business presentations.

"Ever the consummate professional, Deborah can be relied upon as a safe pair of hands to keep a business event bubbling along with energy and enthusiasm, and yet she will never overshadow the company's Managing Director or the message."

A background as a reporter and presenter in BBC news and current affairs, combined with a history in corporate communications, media skills & presentation training, has created a presenter package tailored for business.

This unique approach has helped Deborah to build a solid blue chip client base. Clients include:- BhS, DfEE, DTI, Lloyds TSB, NHS, Royal Mail, Shell and The Law Society amongst others. 

Clients include (most recently): BT, Royal Mail, the RAC, Parcelforce Worldwide, Unipart, and the Law Society. Roadshows for Abbey National Offshore, BT, the Royal and SunAlliance and the Strategic Rail Authority. Deborah has hosted about 45 conferences for Lloyd's and the London Insurance Market.

Corporate quarterlies and monthlies: ‘Vision' and ‘GSTV' - quarterly programmes for BT; ‘Grapevine' a monthly programme for Unipart.

Studio anchor for The Einstein Network, dedicated to specific professional groups e.g. The Law Channel. Recorded every month at Channel 4, containing news, interviews and analysis. 6 Individual channels are available to lawyers, surveyors, civil engineers, accountants, town planners and architects on monthly subscription.

GOVERNMENT

Chair of launches of the NHS Plan and the New Deal, writing scripts and devising questions. Chair of several conferences with the Home Secretary on immigration. Co-presenter with Prime Minister Tony Blair of New Deal Awards Ceremony.

Videos: DEFRA on foot and mouth disease, the DfEE on ICT in schools; global polio eradication with International Development Secretary.

MEDIA TRAINING

"Deborah's engaging and enthusiastic performance ensured she was the only trainer in a 3 week seminar to score the highest mark from each of our 45 delegates".
Advanced Vaccinology Conference,
World Health Organisation, 2003, 2004 & 2005

Retained media consultant and trainer:
Public health doctors in Germany (FETPs) and the Caribbean (CAREC); the world-wide Advanced Vaccinology Conference in Geneva sponsored by WHO & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET).
The Health Protection Agency executive team.

Other clients include:
Olympic committee in Greece 2004 - advisor for scientists and doctors re biological or chemical terrorist attacks; GlaxoSmithKline re patent expiry;
Johnson & Johnson re research on contact lenses; Sainsbury's; BAA;
Cambridge University; BT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

PRESENTATION SKILLS TRAINING

Audiences are inspired by people, not PowerPoint. They can only believe and trust in you, not your slides. So Deborah will raise your performance to enable you to engage your audience, take them with you and remember what you've said. She uses journalistic techniques and elements of psychology and theatre to give you a sound skill set for preparing memorable speeches.

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"energy, flair, depth of knowledge - we were carried away by the trainer's enthusiasm" "I can't believe how much I've achieved" "inspirational"

Recent clients: Crystal Business; Media First; Insurance Market Conferences; various Lloyd's brokers & underwriters, Home Office; Business Link; Clifford Chance; the One Account; Foreign & Commonwealth Office; BT; Greenwich University.

VOLUNTARY WORK

Deborah has donated presentation skills and image training to sixth formers at Lady Margaret School in Fulham; The Children's Trust; Queen Elizabeth Foundation; professionals who have been granted political asylum in the UK, under the Timebank mentoring scheme; and to disadvantaged young people who want to get into media via LBK&C's Media Prospects programme.

Themed talks 1-2 hrs

‘Managing the Media: Juggling with Journalists and Cameras'

"Not so much a talk, as a show - with fireworks! As our final speaker, Deborah scored the highest possible score from every delegate at the end of a 3 week seminar."
World Health Organisation, Geneva every year from 2000 - present

‘Presenting with Style and Confidence'

In a highly motivational talk,  I reveal how to use techniques from TV in public speaking.  I include tips from presenters on body language, voice and making the message memorable.  The audience discovers how to focus the mind and control their nerves, and will leave informed, energised and inspired.

Don't forget if you are thinking of booking a Speaker for your event we can also help with Awards Presenters, Comedians,after dinner Cabaret, fabulous Party Bands or Tributes, DJs, Close up Magicians, amazing Lookalikes for Meet and Greet, Circus Acts and many different types of Themed Entertainment plus much, much more.

 

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