What Do We Do?
We help people to be the most effective communicators they can be. We do this by providing tailored media training and presentation training that gives an immediate improvement.

Whether media training courses for spokespeople to learn how to deliver the right messages to journalists or presentation training for delegates to deliver confident presentations to their audience; we build our courses around our clients and their specific needs. Working so closely with our clients also means that we are there to offer support and guidance whenever and wherever it is needed, both before and after the coaching session.

Who Are We?
Well, because our delegates want to become experts we have built a team of experts:

Our media trainers are highly-respected specialists from journalism and Public Relations backgrounds. They have extensive experience of different media (UK and international) including:

• National Press (The Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph)
• Business (Marketing Week, Investor’s Chronicle, Chemist&Druggist, Prima, PR Week, Investment & Pensions Europe)
• Broadcast News (BBC, ITN, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNN and CNBC).

Our presentation trainers have experience with customer pitches, investor fund raising and board level audiences. They have worked in a variety of industries and sectors, and include:

• Investment bankers
• Fund managers
• Sales and marketing Directors
• BBC consultants

This means that we can match the right trainers – with the relevant understanding and experience – to our clients and their needs.

The Team
Will has extensive knowledge of training and client development and helped build his previous training company into a 24-strong team. He is responsible for client relations at Bluewood where he aims to deliver the best service in the market. He describes his job as exciting and limitless and says “you can never do too much for a client.”

Gemma spent a number of years overseeing operations at a market-leading training company. Having delivered training for a wide range of clients, from AIM listed companies to charities, she works to ensure that Bluewood’s sessions have all the right ingredients - including the apposite trainers – to get the right results for each client. She says her role is “testing but, when everything slots into place, very rewarding.”