Public Speaking

Meet your trainers

Following are some of the ISOC trainers who regularly lead this course, depending whether you join us in London, Dubai or live online. 

Will Hardie

Will is a psychologist, journalist, strategist and coach with 25 years’ experience in 50+ countries. He holds an Oxford Master’s degree in Experimental Psychology and is a former Reuters foreign correspondent and senior editor. Will is one of the world’s leading communications advisors. He has led projects to create communication strategies for national governments and bluechip corporations. He spent six years as chief advisor on communications for a well-known Prime Minister. He has advised and coached hundreds of CEOs, cabinet ministers and top leaders across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Will is a Managing Partner at ISOC, where he specialises in executive coaching, public speaking, media training, crisis, positioning and strategy. He also works as a psychologist specialising in trauma, deconditioning, relationships and interpersonal communication.

Sarah Cocker

Sarah is a dynamic communicator with over 20 years' experience in media, finance and business. Her international experience in banking, and as one of CNBC's key anchors, makes her at ease dealing with leaders and experts from industry, government and academia. Her coaching experience includes training blue-chip executives in public speaking and techniques for challenging television interviews. Her international career has given her an understanding of the cultural and working practices in the Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America.

Corrina Cross

Corrina is an international trainer, coach and facilitator specialising in improving communication, motivation and productivity in the workplace. She uses her knowledge, skills, experience and personality to inspire personal development and motivate teamwork. Corrina is a certified NLP Master Practitioner – a skill-set she uses to help clients define goals and eliminate beliefs that are holding them back. She is also a Facilitator of Inter-Cultural Awareness and a Behavioural Style Consultant, using DiSC profiling tools to identify people’s dominant tendencies and help them understand their own behavioural style and that of others. Corrina qualified with the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing and lived and worked in Australia, Egypt and Bahrain before settling in Dubai, where she managed a marketing agency for 15 years before moving into learning and development in 2011.

Adam Kirtley

Adam is a veteran presenter and reporter with more than 30 years' experience as a BBC journalist. He presents on BBC local and national and radio, including  Five Live business show Wake Up to Money and Radio Four's flagship consumer show You and Yours. He still reports for the BBC World Service, where he began his career. Adam has interviewed numerous bankers, finance ministers and CEOs during his BBC career, and for the last 15 years has used that experience to train executives in media interviews, crisis communication, public speaking, presentation skills and messaging. He is also an accomplished conference facilitator and workshop leader. Adam has worked across Europe, the Middle East, North America and Africa for organisations of all sizes, from multinational finance and pharmaceutical companies to governments and NGOs.