We help you attract more interest by changing how you talk about what you do. Why does this matter? Speaking is the passageway through which our efforts must go to succeed. At stake is not just our individual success but–ultimately–our collective ability to create positive change in the world.
What you get
Have a framework for any speaking situation.
Increase confidence and gravitas.
Discover how to be most interesting.
Get your listeners to trust you.
Solve the challenge of having too much to say.
Create a frame of relevance and purpose.
How we work, step by step
#1: We learn about you.
#2: You prepare a bit.
#3: We do the training.
#4: We follow up.
Success Metrics
“If only all my one-hour meetings were so productive!”
Priya Jayachandran, CEO, National Housing Trust
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“Elevator Speech Training helped us translate our successes more clearly to crucial investors like Morgan Stanley.”
Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO, ISeeChange
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“This one hour was more impactful than days I have spent in other communications trainings.”
Dan Nissenbaum, CEO, Low Income Investment Fund
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“Marc’s Elevator Speech Training was, quite simply, transformational.”
Heidi Binko, Executive Director & Co-founder, Just Transition Fund
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“I have never experienced a more streamlined, to-the-point, and helpful one-hour training session.”
Ben Strauss, CEO and Chief Scientist, Climate Central
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“Marc’s training was like hitting a re-start button.”
Gladys Limon, Executive Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance
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About Marc Fest
Helping leaders worldwide communicate better
Marc Fest is the principal of Elevator Speech Training, a communications consultancy specializing in helping clients attract more interest to their cause by changing how they talk about what they do.
Marc is the creator of MessageHouse.org, a free toolkit helping thousands of global NGOs, companies, nonprofits, and governments create key messages and increase messaging discipline. He is a former vice president of communications for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the New World Symphony.
Marc is the author of the upcoming The Elevator Speech Framework, a thirty-minute primer based on thousands of Elevator Speech Training sessions.
He lives at a remote solar-powered farm in the Everglades. When he is not coaching clients, he enjoys hanging out with his Belgian Shepherd dog Zeus and an assortment of lizards, hawks, and raccoons.
Elevator Speech Training is powered by solar energy.