BACKGROUND

I have been coaching clients in public speaking, media training and confidence building for over twenty years.

My coaching skills started when I was producing shows for BBC Radio where I was given “difficult” presenters to work with. They just needed re-assurance and guidance on staying focussed and coming across the airwaves with confidence and likability. I was also the producer who coached presenters and experts new to the airwaves. More recently I have enjoyed creating television formats for well-known faces including Victoria Wood’s “Victoria’s Empire” for BBC1, “The Hairy Bikers Great Mississippi Adventure” and am proud to have been part of the team to bring “An Idiot Abroad” to the SKY ONE.

I pivoted from full-time television production into coaching and started my own coaching business, Mind and Media, when increasingly asked to help people with presenting and pitching ideas. Creative companies also started booking me to help build the confidence of their staff, run away days and creative brainstorming sessions with their teams, making people more confident in public speaking and media interviews.

As part of my continuing learning journey I am a qualified hypnotherapist and have also gained qualifications in NLP (neuropathy linguistic programming), CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), all of which I use in coaching where and when it suits the client needs.

CURRENTLY

In addition to working with various multi-million pound companies, start-ups, creative teams and CEOs, I am a trainer for D&AD, coach and mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, a personal success coach for The Coaching Academy, a media volunteer for MIND and an ambassador for two leukaemia charities.

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Get in touch and let’s see how we can work together to achieve great things.

Sonia Beldom speaking with Maxine Mawhinney on growing up with a near diverse mother.

MEDIA TRAINING

PRESENTING & PITCHING

EXECUTIVE COACHING

BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND

CUSTOMER SERVICE

CAMERA CONFIDENCE

STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES

WEDDING SPEECHES

MEDIA TRAINING/PRESENTING & PITCHING

Media and Presentation training for you and your team will bring lasting results in a competitive marketplace where people buy people.  Most new business is won on a great pitch or presentation and in a world where a lot of our work is done online, presenting and pitching skills are essential in our work lives.

From a career in radio and television working with presenters, contributors and people new to broadcasting,  Sonia's bespoke courses are energetic, effective and will equip you with a toolbox of stackable skills you can use when pitching, presenting, speaking at events and meeting with clients.

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Helping managers, leaders and aspiring executives to build and maintain a strong professional and executive presence by building the skills to help you inspire your team, work effectively with every personality type, to recognise and nurture individual skills and build an emotional intelligence mindset. It’s all about the RULES OF C . COMMUNICATION by keeping your eye on the big picture whilst communicating your vision up and down. CONNECTIONS within your workplace and the larger business world. Maintaining a CALM presence in every aspect of your life. Promoting, radiating and inspiring CONFIDENCE, speaking with CLARITY in your own voice, written word, social media, press & media facing situations and meetings from one-to-one to board level. CREATING A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION as you never get a second chance to make a great first impression.

BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND

Your personal brand is your public face when people think about your name or search for you on the internet and social media. Building your personal brand is about creating a strong personal image of your personality, skills and core values. It’s about encapsulating your talents as well as demonstrating who you are. With careful strategic development, your personal brand differentiates you from others and builds your reputation in the personal and professional space. Good personal branding helps build powerful connections and can lead to new opportunities. To build your personal brand you need to identify what drives you, where you excel, your ideal settings, career goals, life values and a demonstration of the impact you can make. Most of all it’s about consistency; in your digital footprint, reputation with clients, adhesion to your core values and a personality that people want to interact and work with.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Good customer service is about taking care of the customer’s needs by providing and delivering professional, helpful, trustable, high quality service and assistance before, during and after the customer’s requirements are met. Training courses cover:

• The importance of first impressions

• Understanding customer’s needs and expectations

• Dealing effectively with complex issues face-to-face, online and within teams

• Confidence and assertion

• Time management

• Maintaining mental health

• building loyalty

• creative marketing

CAMERA CONFIDENCE  

Ever wondered how the influencers do it?  With solid camera confidence skills your video content will stand out above the competition.  By developing your natural style and creating your unique social media & online presence,  camera confidence will elevate you,  your business and your website above the competition.  Customers always spend more time on websites with video content, so let's get you relaxed, confident and building your brand.

STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES

Stories makes us feel something. They speak to the visual and emotional part of our brain and stories stays with us differently from facts and data.  Learn how to entertain, inform and inspire your audience with your talk, meeting, elevator pitch or presentation by creating a lasting story that they will remember.

WEDDING SPEECHES

It takes skill, research and bravery to make a fantastic wedding speech. We will work one-to-one on your speech, prepare the outline, compile a set of handy notes and learn the special tips and tricks on how to engage with your audience and please everybody - from great grandma to the page boys.

Make your speech one to remember.

CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy)

NLP (neuro linguistic programming)

HYPNOSIS

CBT is a talking therapy that helps you look at how you think and behave can be managed for a happier, most successful life.

It's most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression and can be helpful when dealing with other mental and physical health issues.

HOW CBT WORKS

CBT is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle. It aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller parts by showing you how to change these negative patterns to improve the way we feel. CBT deals with your current problems, rather than focusing on issues from your past.

HOW NLP WORKS

NLP is an interpersonal communication model that looks at the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (patterns of thought) underlying them. It’s a system designed to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication techniques to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour. It works to align visual, auditory and physical behaviours in order to improve communication and relationships.

HOW HYPNOSIS WORKS

Hypnosis is a changed state of awareness and increased relaxation that allows for improved focus and concentration. It also is called hypnotherapy. When you feel calm and relaxed curing hypnosis, your consiocus and sub-conscious mind is open to enrichment, visualisation and lasting change.

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