Capture attention. Create understanding. Move people. Become more grounded in yourself. Clearer in your message. Stronger in your influence. Build a voice that carries your expertise, your business, and your life forward.
Live practice. Real listener feedback. A stronger voice you can put to work.
Led by Nick LambeFounder of SpeakNess · 100+ speaking engagements↗Your expertise, your ideas, your work: their impact grows when you can make them understood. Speaking helps you teach, lead, connect, advocate, and invite people into what you do.
The Speaking Effect is an immersive public speaking and influence workshop led by Nick Lambe. Bring a real message. Test it with real listeners. Discover what lands, make a deliberate change, and deliver again.
Build a talk. Train the person who gives it. Carry the skill into your next room.
Shape a central idea, build a useful explanation, and give listeners something they can remember and repeat.
Use voice, pace, pauses, examples, and stories with intention. Practise recovering and continuing when nerves show up.
Develop a practical foundation for presentations, workshops, introductions, meetings, and conversations that open doors.
Bring something real. Say it out loud. Hear the effect. Make it stronger.
Step into the experience ↗Confidence grows through evidence. You hear what people actually took from your words—and experience how a specific adjustment changes their response.
Try an introduction, explanation, opening, or speaking segment that matters to you.
Find out what listeners understood, remembered, felt, and wanted to hear next.
Change one element: your structure, example, emphasis, pace, or invitation.
Deliver again. Notice the difference. Take that learning into another situation.
Real material + guided practice + listener evidence + another attempt.
Open with a question, tension, or idea that earns attention.
Turn crowded thoughts into a point people can follow.
Use stories, stakes, and examples that make it matter.
Bring intention to your voice, presence, and pauses.
Invite a useful action, decision, question, or conversation.
Speaking creates an effect at every level: how you feel, how your message lands, how people respond, and how your work is seen. The workshop gives you a place to practise the skills behind those effects.
More grounded.
More understood.
More connected.
More able to move things forward.
From holding back to being able to start, pause, recover, and stay present. Build confidence through repeated evidence of what you can do.
A grounding and recovery routine; a deliberate first speaking rep.
Speak up in a meeting. Introduce yourself in a new room. Have a conversation you have been avoiding.
Find the central point, give it a useful structure, and make it tangible through a story or example. Help people understand and remember what you mean.
A clear core message, an opening, and a shorter introduction.
Explain your expertise. Teach a complex idea. Tell someone what you do without losing them in detail.
Learn to consider the listener’s world, use meaningful examples, and stay responsive. Communication becomes a shared experience.
Listener feedback and a more audience-aware version of your message.
Build rapport with a client. Listen and respond to a partner. Connect with your children. Welcome a new member.
Make the stakes clear and guide people toward a useful choice, question, conversation, or action—with an invitation they can understand.
An audience-focused ending and a clear next-step invitation.
Lead a team toward a decision. Invite a client into a next step. Advocate for a cause or ask for what you need.
Express a point of view, explain the reasoning behind it, and support it with specific examples. Practise letting people experience how you think and help.
A speaking segment that demonstrates your perspective and expertise.
Deliver a workshop. Answer a question on a panel. Contribute to a professional discussion. Become easier to refer.
Connect your expertise to a recognizable problem, a meaningful change, and an appropriate next conversation. Create clearer language for your work and the people it serves.
A value introduction and a chosen next room in which to use it.
Pitch a partnership. Explain an offer. Present for a role. Develop relationships that may lead to referrals and business.
Give people a useful idea they can repeat, a tool they can try, or a conversation they can continue. Choose how you will keep practising and carrying the skill forward.
A practical transfer plan and a repeatable way to improve.
Help a team use what you taught. Start a better conversation at home. Equip a client to share an idea with others.
The workshop develops the skills and usable material. Authority, business growth, and new opportunities build through continued application, relationships, and the rooms you pursue.
A guided, participatory speaking workshop with short teaching segments, live demonstrations, individual message work, small-group practice, and audience feedback.
You can arrive with a talk, introduction, teaching idea, pitch, or a situation you want to handle better. You can also start with a supported prompt. Nick guides the work; you use it with material that matters to you.
Name the audience and the effect you want to create.
See Nick teach and demonstrate a practical tool.
Use it to shape your own message or response.
Speak, hear the response, refine, and redeliver.
Choose the next room where you will use the skill.
The December 3–4 virtual edition runs 10 AM–1 PM Eastern each day. It includes both live sessions, recordings, a recorded speaking sample, and multiple follow-up Presenter Playground sessions. Event-specific details appear in each listing.
See dates & formats ↗For example, you might practise the opening of a workshop or a short introduction to your work. The first attempt gives you a starting point. The next attempt gives you something to compare.
Deliver your opening aloud to a small group.
Hear what people understood and remembered.
Change one choice—your first line, an example, a pause, or the structure.
Try it again and notice how the response changes.
What was clear?
Where did you want more?
What did the message make you want to do?
Speaking gives you practice. Listening to others sharpens your awareness. Feedback helps you connect the choices you make with the experience you create.
Each area connects a practical strategy to a real speaking attempt. Open a topic to see what you work on, an example exercise, and what you build.
Identify who you are speaking to, what they need, and the one idea you want them to take away. Give your message a structure they can follow.
Turn a crowded explanation into one clear point supported by an example.
A central message you can build around.
Experiment with a question, a recognizable problem, a tension, or an observation that gives people a reason to listen.
Deliver two different openings for the same idea and compare the listener response.
A usable opening for your talk or introduction.
Select stories, concrete examples, and human stakes that make an idea relevant. Use FEEL–SEE–MOVE to consider connection, understanding, and action.
Replace an abstract claim with a specific moment your listener can picture.
A story or example that makes your message tangible.
Work with rate, volume, melody, tone, emphasis, and silence. Experience how changing one ingredient changes the way a sentence lands.
Say the same line with a different pause or emphasis, then hear what changed.
More intentional choices for your voice and pacing.
Practise pausing, looking up, finding your point after losing your place, and continuing while nervous. Build a routine you can return to.
Pause, reconnect to the central idea, and resume without restarting everything.
A practical recovery routine and experience using it.
Adapt your idea for a short introduction, a longer explanation, or a live question. Close with a useful invitation, decision, or next step.
Turn one core idea into a brief introduction, then answer a follow-up question.
A shorter introduction and a chosen next application.
Notice stance, eye contact, facial expression, gesture, and movement. Make deliberate choices that fit the room and reinforce what you mean.
Deliver the same opening twice: first with a still, grounded stance; then add one purposeful gesture. Ask what each version communicated.
A simple presence cue you can use before you speak.
Listen for the question underneath the question. Practise checking understanding, answering the point, and inviting a useful next exchange.
Listen to a partner explain a challenge. Reflect the main point back before offering your response.
A repeatable way to listen, clarify, and respond.
Frame a useful question, invite participation, give clear instructions, and bring a discussion back to its central point.
Introduce a short paired exercise: explain its purpose, the task, and what participants will share afterward.
A clearer invitation and a simple facilitation structure.
Train the voice, the body, the message, and the exchange. Each lab gives you a concrete action to try and a listener response to learn from.
These are examples of the kinds of guided practice used across the workshop. You build the foundation, then keep developing it in the rooms that matter to you.
Explore how rate, volume, melody, tone, emphasis, and silence work together. Build range so you can choose a delivery that serves the message and the person listening.
Say your opening at your usual speed. Try it more slowly. Ask which version was easier to follow.
Try the same sentence at two comfortable volumes. Notice projection, intention, and effort.
Say a line with little pitch variation, then with a natural change of pitch. Compare the effect.
Stress a different word each time you repeat a sentence. Hear how the implied meaning changes.
Deliver the same invitation with curiosity, reassurance, and conviction. Ask how each felt.
Place a deliberate pause before the central idea. Repeat with a pause after it. Compare.
The shared purpose: help someone move toward a decision. Choose a form, read the example aloud, and notice the relationship each delivery invites.
This is a guided reading exercise. The page does not play audio.Here is the decision we need to make—and the information that will help us make it.
Try a measured pace, a clear central point, and a pause between ideas.
USE IT IN: A teaching moment, explanation, or project update.What would help you make this decision—and what is one step you could take now?
Try curiosity, a direct question, and enough silence for an answer.
USE IT IN: A coaching session, team discussion, or supportive conversation.We have enough to take the first step. Let’s choose it—and move it forward.
Try a purposeful build in energy, emphasis on the action, and a clear ending.
USE IT IN: A team kickoff, invitation, or call to action.We can work through this together. What feels most important to you right now?
Try a warm conversational tone, an unhurried pace, and genuine listening.
USE IT IN: A relationship, new connection, or moment that needs reassurance.More vocal choice for explaining, encouraging, connecting, and inviting action—without needing to sound like someone else.
Notice what your stance, eyes, face, hands, and movement communicate alongside your words. Experiment with one element at a time and ask listeners what they experienced.
Deliver a thought to one listener, look up, and let your expression match its meaning.
Use one purposeful gesture to show a contrast, size, sequence, or invitation.
Find a comfortable grounded stance. Try a purposeful change of position at a transition.
Pause, release unnecessary tension, find the central idea, and continue with the next thought.
Deliver the same introduction twice: first with a still stance, then with one deliberate gesture and more direct eye contact. Ask what changed in the listener’s experience.
Choose a specific situation, reveal the tension, show what changed, and connect it to the idea you want the listener to use.
Name a recognizable person, place, or situation.
Show the problem, uncertainty, or human stake.
Describe the choice or discovery that changed things.
Connect it to one useful point for this listener.
“Clear communication makes teams more effective.”
“We ended the meeting agreeing we needed to move faster. The next morning, three people had started three different priorities. The shift came when we ended the next meeting with one decision, one owner, and one next step.”
Now name the lesson in your own words—and the action your listener could take.
What makes the situation matter to this audience?
What should the story help them understand?
What choice, question, or action could follow?
A clearer way to teach, communicate your value, support a pitch, or make an abstract idea relevant.
Practise finding the point, listening for what is needed, and responding with enough structure to be useful.
Take a moment. Ask a clarifying question when needed. Answer the central point, add one example, and check whether it helped.
TRY IT:Let a partner ask a real question about your work. Respond without delivering your whole presentation.
Reflect the other person’s main concern, check your understanding, and share a clear response or request.
TRY IT:Explain a need or boundary in one clear sentence. Invite the other person’s perspective.
Explain why the exercise matters, what to do, and what you will ask them to share. Use one focused question to bring the discussion back.
TRY IT:Introduce a paired reflection and then guide a brief group debrief.
Pause, reconnect to the idea you are explaining, and move to the next useful thought.
TRY IT:Practise a deliberate stop during your segment, then resume without starting from the beginning.
More adaptable speaking for meetings, interviews, teaching, client conversations, and everyday exchanges.
Establish a starting point, shape the material, and begin discovering the effect your speaking creates.
Strengthen your presence, adapt your message, and choose how you will use the work beyond the workshop.
The sequence adapts to the group and event format. The emphasis stays on teaching, speaking reps, feedback, refinement, and real-world application.
You practise in a workshop so you can show up differently wherever understanding, trust, and action matter.
Explain the problem you solve, make an offer easier to grasp, and give the right person a reason to continue the conversation.
Frame a decision, make expertise usable, and help a team or class understand what to do next.
Introduce yourself clearly, contribute in meetings, answer questions, and communicate your perspective in new rooms.
Express what you mean, listen for what the other person needs, and make room for a useful response.
Pause, find the point, communicate a need or boundary, and continue when the moment feels uncomfortable.
Join a conversation, tell a story, ask for help, or be more present with family and the people around you.
Choose an introduction, talk, teaching idea, pitch, or conversation. Your practice has a purpose beyond the workshop.
Hear what people understood and remembered. Turn feedback into a specific choice for your next attempt.
Refine your structure and delivery while practising presence, recovery, and the willingness to take the floor.
Adapt the same idea for a short introduction, a longer explanation, and a question you did not prepare for.
Join an upcoming experience, request a workshop near you, or help bring one to your city.
10 AM–1 PM Eastern each day · Join from anywhere
Both live sessions, recordings, a recorded speaking sample, and multiple follow-up Presenter Playground sessions.
New locations are being developed with local hosts. Confirmed cities, venues, dates, and registration details will be listed here as they are announced.
Bring The Speaking Effect to your community, organization, or team. Create a shared experience that helps people communicate their ideas—and gives them a reason to keep connecting.
Explore a host partnership ↗Practical development people can apply to their work, clients, teams, and everyday lives.
Explore a ticketed partnership with financial terms shaped around the event and each partner’s role.
Potential benefits include complimentary host attendance and discounted team places.
Co-branded promotion and support to position the experience for your local audience.
Nick’s facilitation, the workshop method, participant resources, registration support, and promotional materials.
A connection to an aligned audience, agreed local promotion, and a suitable space for speaking and practice.
Dates, format, venue, capacity, responsibilities, complimentary places, discounts, and financial terms are agreed together for each event.
Founder of SpeakNess and WellSpoken.
Speaker. Communication coach. Event builder.
Nick has spoken at more than 100 events and studied hundreds of speakers through his work creating speaking experiences. His focus is the relationship between the message, the person delivering it, and the people receiving it.
He teaches and demonstrates the tools, leads the practice, and helps you make specific adjustments to your own material—so you can experience the change when you speak again.
“What you say is the start. What it creates is the effect.”
That is the lens Nick brings to every practice round: how did your message feel, what did it help people see, and where could it move them?
Interested in attending? Want a workshop in your city? Have a team or community that would benefit? Tell Nick what you have in mind.
Host inquiries: include your city, organization, audience, venue options, and preferred timing.
No. You can begin with a short introduction, an idea you need to explain, or a speaking situation you want to handle better. Experienced speakers can bring existing material for a greater challenge.
Yes. Live speaking, listener feedback, refinement, and repeat delivery sit at the heart of the experience. The work uses material and situations that matter to you.
The in-person flagship brings people together over two days. The December virtual workshop runs December 3–4, 2026, 10 AM–1 PM Eastern each day, with recordings and follow-up Presenter Playground sessions. Each listing will specify its format and inclusions.
Yes. Reach out with your team, goals, location, and timing. Nick will explore the right format and scope with you. Private team engagements and community-hosted events are planned individually.
There is no single package published here. The format, audience, venue, promotion responsibilities, and financial arrangement are agreed together. Host benefits may include revenue share, complimentary attendance, discounted team places, and co-branded promotion.
Use “Request your city” to share where you are and what you would like to attend. You can also introduce a potential local host. The live online workshop offers a way to participate from anywhere.