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Present Yourself Confidently and Compellingly

Ivy's system will give you the confidence, tools and ability to speak fearlessly to any audience and drive home an important message in any situation.

Ivy Works with:

  • Fortune 500 companies including Comcast, IBM, The New York Times, Pitney Bowes etc.

  • Financial Services Professionals, Private Equity, Fintech, IPO presentations

  • Universities including Princeton University, NYU, RPI

  • Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

  • Sales, marketing, and public relations professionals who are constantly pitching accounts, clients, and media

  • Executives at every level:

    • The newly promoted CEO, CFO, COO or CIO

    • Management professionals seeking promotion or general improvement

  • IT professsionals

  • Business professionals seeking to position themselves as experts in their industry

  • Tech Leaders, Engineers

  • Fundraisers

Services

Executive Speaking Coach

Private virtual and in-person one-on-one coaching sessions help executives strengthen the effectiveness and power of their presentations, public speaking, video appearances and podium techniques.

Speaker

Presentations designed for high level executives, sales professionals, or anyone who wants to become an authentic, confident communicator.

Workshops & Seminars

Interactive on site and virtual programs offer a combination of individual coaching and group instruction, video feedback and practical exercise that make learning easy and fun.

Testimonials

“Ivy, your instincts are unreal. I’ve spent a whole lot of years working in this sort of environment, and you are the consummate professional - Thanks for a flawless job.”
— IBM
“Working with Ivy is nothing short of transformative, and from a career development standpoint, no other training comes close. Her coaching, advice and support have taken my presentation skills to a much higher level, and she did so within my natural style. If you have the opportunity to collaborate with Ivy, jump at it!”
— The New York Times
Ivy's Blog
Life Saving Quick Tip
Life Saving Quick Tip

You’ve accepted an invitation to speak at a prestigious event. You prepared the content of your talk, you have beautifully designed visuals supporting your message and you’ve rehearsed.   Now it’s time to get yourself to the event. Feeling excited and also a bit nervous, you now realize you’re flying into the unknown….

Rise to the Occasion
Rise to the Occasion

How can you prepare yourself to Rise to the Occasion in the coming year? There are significant changes that are impacting my clients and their approach to speaking. If you’re aware of them you can get off to a great start in 2020!

The more Personal, The more Universal
The more Personal, The more Universal

A quick route to becoming relatable and authentic as a communicator is to learn how to incorporate one or two well-crafted examples or short stories within your presentation. When you’re considering the type of story to choose within your presentation or talk, keep this in mind…

Fear Buster
Fear Buster

Fear of the unknown translates to fear of losing control. In order to feel safe, we feel we must…

3 Tips for Making a Scripted Presentation Come to Life
3 Tips for Making a Scripted Presentation Come to Life

So, what happens when you must read a fully scripted speech? And most likely present from a podium? How do you make it sound natural and remain relatable?

Ivy was named one of the Top 5 Speaking Coaches…


“Based in New York, Ivy Naistadt has helped both big companies and individuals communicate with confidence for more than 25 years. Ivy’s high-developed coaching system gives her clients useful tools they can leverage to speak with full confidence and make the impact they seek.”

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Speak Without Fear

Ivy's Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator

Speak Without Fear aids the millions of Americans who list fear of public speaking as one of their biggest -- along with going to the dentist, being audited, and attending a funeral. It combats performance anxiety in everyday business situations -- meetings, presentations, interviews, reviews and sales conferences. Public speaking skills can be learned and honed and many books cover this topic. However, Speak Without Fear delves beyond external techniques and probes deeply into the reason for your performance anxiety.

Are you an Avoider, Anticipator, Adrenalizer or Improviser when it comes to making a presentation, going on a job interview or speaking before a large audience? Whatever your nervousness profile may be, the fear of public speaking has taken over and disabled you from giving an effective, well-executed performance.  Speak Without Fear will help you with overcoming fear of public speaking.  You're not alone. 

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Available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, Audible book, and audio CD.

Also available as an eBook and Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Indonesian translations.

“I found you audiobook “Speak Without Fear” to be extremely helpful! I’ve always struggled in meetings or any arena where I have a speaking part and your book provided me with some great insight and tools that I put to use in a presentation this morning. Thanks for the great book!”
— Matt M.

"This book could be your Bible"

- USA Today Magazine

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Featured

The reviews across the organization after experiencing Ivy have been nothing short of “most effective presentation development program I’ve ever experienced”

- Quentin SaLay, Vice -President, Comcast Technology Solutions- People Operations

Working with Ivy is nothing short of transformative, and from a career development standpoint, no other training comes close. .

- Tom Glieden, New York Times

Your coaching has helped me tremendously, and I am much more comfortable and confident as a public speaker as result. I am most grateful to you and hope that I may call on you in the future. 

– Scott J. Newkam, CEO, Hershey

We found that Ivy had the ability to work with a diverse team and to leverage each person's natural style to construct and deliver a dynamic and powerful presentation. Thanks Ivy for helping us achieve the "WOW" factor!

– G. Smith, Vice President, IBM

I wanted to thank you for working with me this year It was a big step for me to give and external speech to a group of 1,000 people.  Your intuitive skills are second to none.  Your work on understanding the audience I was speaking to and your ability to capture who I am made this speech an unbelievable success.

– Leslie Abi-Karem, President DMT, Pitney Bowes

I could not have anticipated the popularity and impact of both of these communication skills programs on the organization. The results of your work have been outstanding.

– New York Times

I just came back from our conference and the comments were that I delivered the best speech ever! I cannot thank you enough for your excellent speech coaching and look forward to working with you in the future.

– Former President, Pitney Bowes Financial Services

I give you a great deal of credit for helping build my confidence, I’ve tested the techniques you taught me as a presenter. Whereas I would previously have been a nervous wreck, I dazzled ‘em with brilliance!

– L. Demeuth, Administrative Office, United States Courts

A top flight ‘Pro’, Ms. Naistadt is accommodating, efficient, thorough and able to adapt her unique approach successfully to virtually any environment or style of business professional.

– Corning

Your instincts are unreal. I’ve spent a whole lot of years working in this sort of environment, and you are the consummate professional - Thanks for a flawless job.

– IBM