TRUSTED PARTNERS
Terry Ward – Author, Speaker, Coach
Terry Ward, author of “The Art of Pitching”, is the founder and President of CommSkills Group, a national communication and presentation skills training organization. Many of the firm’s proprietary programs play an integral role in leadership and learning development programs in Fortune 1000 companies all over the country. Terry has over 30 years of experience coaching and training communication, presentation and leadership skills. Many of his programs were founded on the guiding principle: the spoken word is the most powerful tool to influence, inspire and lead. Every communication must be designed to meet the needs of the listener.
Strengths Certifications: Standout Team Leader, Standout Advantage, Strengths Essentials, Strengths Coach
Associations Membership: ICF, ICFLA
Kevin Keegan – Education Consultant, Leadership Coach, Project Manager
Kevin Keegan, who joined the CommSkills Group in February 2020, has close to 20 years of experience working as a professional consultant, certified coach, instructional systems designer, and project manager. Kevin earned degrees in Communication and Rhetoric (B.S.) and Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation (M.S.) from Syracuse University. He spent eight years with the Syracuse University Athletics Department and two years on Wall Street before moving to Washington, D.C. Kevin designed and implemented e-Learning courses for the National Defense University’s International Strategic Centers before joining the management and technology firm, Booz Allen Hamilton. As a consultant with Booz Allen, Kevin supported more than a dozen clients over eight years, including NASA, EPA, and the IRS. While supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency (or DIA), Kevin designed courses for Intelligence Analysts on Advanced Threat Finance and Cyberspace Operations. Also, Kevin spent four years working for Oracle, a cloud computing company, where he helped implement a new enablement training program for 50,000 sales personnel worldwide. He earned professional certifications in Leadership Coaching (2010) and Change Management (2013) from Georgetown University and he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, and stepson.
LinkedIn: https://www.linked.com/in/coachkevinkeegan
Certifications: Leadership Coaching, Job and Career Transition Coaching, Change Management Advanced Practitioner, Kirkpatrick Four Levels of Evaluation
Associations Membership: ICF
Stephen Rappaport
Stephen Rappaport is an actor, director, singer-songwriter, solo theater performer, playwright, and teacher. He received his initial theater training in 1972, at the Institute for Scenkonst, Sweden, under the direction of Ingemar Lindh, a colleague of Jerzy Grotowski. He has also studied extensively with Rob Reece (Method), Ernesto Sanchez (Mime Master), and Larry Moss (Stella Adler).
Stephen Rappaport leads his INTUITION IN ACTION workshop extensively at Colleges, Universities, businesses, and privately worldwide including, Cullberg Ballet, The Swedish Institute, Fantastic Studios (Spoon, Reach for Change), KaosPilots,(Denmark), Spotify, Dramatiska Institutet, Sonoma State University, University of Southern California, and many others.
The goal of the workshop is to engage groups or individuals in the corporate sector who would like to “up their game”. People who want to be creatively challenged and challenged creatively. The objective is to guide participants toward generating greater trust in their intuition, imaginations and ideas, and to enhance their ability to express, communicate and share them.
The work connects participants to their core values thereby injecting new life, direction, and purpose in their work. Teams participating in a workshop will deepen their understand and compassion for one another and open new avenues of communication.
Participants will take with them powerful tools they can use for presentation, conflict resolution, diversity training, and communication in every situation.
Stephens has toured his Monodrama’s internationally with critical acclaim. For more information on Stephen Rappaport and his work please visit his website https://www.stephenrappaport.com/
We want to inspire the best in you by catering to all your communication needs.
CommSkills Group Services
CommSkills Group is a renowned professional communication skills training organization in California. We aim to identify people’s natural communication style and build on their strengths. CommSkills Group employs highly experienced facilitators and state-of-the-art technology to assist employees at all levels in boosting their interpersonal and communication skills.
Our team offers an extensive selection of innovative trainings, held in small to large groups, to improve your public speaking, leadership and presentation skills and face to face communications. Whether your teams require presentation consulting or half-day training sessions, we are your solution to hassle-free yet pragmatic and results-oriented approaches to connect you with partners, clients, and suppliers in a more effective way.
“By working with an individual’s natural style, we create lasting results.”
The key to accelerated learning is to anchor new skills within the natural style of the individual. With this highly customized approach every participant gets specific coaching and feedback based on their unique strengths and authentic style. Building on this foundational methodology we have found that participants develop and advance their skills faster and with lasting results. CommSkills Group transforms the performance of people at work by changing how they approach, create and deliver messages every day.
By combining experiential exercises, interactive coaching and individual action plans we change the way people think, feel and behave; not just in our workshops but practical lasting change that impacts their work. We focus on enhancing a person’s communication strengths, confidence and capabilities because when your people flourish, so will your business.
Executive Coaching
Our executive coaching is an experiential and individualized leader development process that builds a leader’s capability to achieve short and long-term organizational goals as well as individual professional goals. It is conducted through one-on- one interactions, driven by data from multiple perspectives, and based on mutual trust and respect. The organization, an executive, and the executive coach work in partnership to achieve maximum impact. Each session consists of face-to- face developmental discussions aimed at performance improvement or developing particular competencies. The coaching is meant to be practical and goal-focused and may concentrate on further leveraging existing strengths, avoiding professional derailers or working through organizational issues like change initiatives. Executive coaching is about having a thought partner to work through any challenge that an executive may face.
