The Public Speaking Academy are the specialists in world-class Public Speaking Training and bespoke Executive 1-1 Speaker Coaching. With a proven track record of getting guaranteed results for serious clients wanting to overcome the fear of Public Speaking and enabling them to make more impact in their careers, presentation and communication skills.
Our coaching specialism helps rising leaders improve in presence, confidence, and impact through a unique method helping you build speaking confidence habits with immediate impact whilst maintaining your leadership integrity and authenticity.
Professional Speech Coaches & Leaders
Our trainers are not just Speakers or Coaches but Business Leaders themselves who are trained in a tried and tested Public Speaking Training System. Our approach is highly practical and has served clients from London to Saudi Arabia, from Manchester to Kuwait, and Birmingham to Dubai! Every session is bespoke and will shape you through bespoke tools that fit your unique speaking barriers and speaking aims, resulting in sharp shifts in your confidence, impact and speaking delivery.
How We Can Help You
Our training will uniquely combines highly interactive methods with demonstration coaching that enables you to see and model what will work for your individual needs. As professional speakers, we will help you test what speaking tools will work for you in the workplace or on the conference stage. You will benefit from our experience without the associated challenges or time costs, transforming your ability quickly in a safe environment.
Positive, Supportive
All Public Speaking training and courses are held in a positive and supportive atmosphere – creating a team bias for you to succeed. You learn from tutors, and other delegates, and through self-reflection during intense coaching sessions.
Proven Results
All our delegates always experience speaking transformation – see our Google reviews or post-program videos for a testament to this. Many organisations will return to us to repeat their in-house presentation skills training for their delegates to continue their speaking journey with new or existing team members.
We are committed to continuing to be the very best provider of Public Speaking training in the world and in doing so by maintaining our 100% Speaker Transformation Guarantee. Earning us the reputation as the Home of World Class Speaking.
Meet The Directors

Lee Furness Entrepreneur. Adventurer. Carver.
As an award-winning entrepreneur Lee has coached hundreds to business success. A man with stories to tell, having climbed the Himalayas and hitch-hiked the length of Africa. His passion for personal development shines through.

Billal Jamil Comedian. Hiker. Leader.
An award-winning keynote speaker and conference facilitator. Coach to leading figures in the legal and political community. Billal has led a 5000+ staff organization and shared the stage with Tony Blair and Charles Clarke (Home Secretary).

Anthony Mercer Designer. Rock Star. Geek.
A lifelong passion for audio and visual communication. Anthony runs conference events, delivering stunning presentations and investment pitches (Think Steve Jobs with a smile).