A World Champion’s Guide to Public Speaking Part 2

Level up your presentations with Andrew Simon! Come to “A World Champion’s Guide to Public Speaking Part 2” for an interactive and practical workshop. Discover the three words that make any speech great, learn how to stop losing your audience to dry facts, and turn your next talk into an engaging experience!

Skills you will gain:
• Build meaningful context: Frame the current reality so the room understands the real problem before you present your ideas.
• Raise the stakes: Clearly answer the audience’s unspoken question: "Why should I care about this right now?"
• Make your talk personal: Connect your message to real human experience—bridging the gap between the speaker and the listener.
• Create seamless flow: Transition effortlessly from your opening hook into your core message without losing room energy.
• Keep audiences invested: Structure your ideas so listeners feel an active, emotional stake in your outcome.
• Practical tools and techniques you can use immediately.

Who This Is For:.
• Beginners: No prior speaking or presentation experience is required.
• Communicators: Anyone looking to replace dry, boring presentations with engaging ideas.
• Storytellers & Leaders: People wanting to build stronger persuasion, connection, and storytelling abilities.

Background & Credentials:
Andrew Simon is a world public speaking champion, speechwriter, and public speaking coach with more than 30 years of experience helping speakers craft and deliver presentations that connect with audiences. Over his career, Andrew has conducted trainings and prepared presentations for professionals from Microsoft, Facebook, the National Football League, AT&T, MIT, Harvard, and more. Additionally, he has written The Art (and Science) of Public Speaking, a complete guide to content, rhetoric, and delivery. He is also the founder of VIP Speech, the most advanced app available for improving public speaking and communication skills. His work focuses on making public speaking clearer, more engaging, more strategic, and more human. Through his coaching, seminars, and workshops, Andrew helps speakers move beyond memorized scripts and generic presentation advice, giving them practical tools to communicate with confidence, authenticity, and impact.

Donation:
Admission is free, with a minimum purchase of one food item and one beverage per person. This mandatory policy supports the venue and keeps our events running. To make it even better, 12% of all food and drink sales generated during the event will be donated directly to the Foundation for the Education of Rural Children (https://fercthailand.org/), providing scholarships to poor rural Thai students in Northern Thailand to finish high school. Supporting education to strengthen communities is our group's mission.