The College of Public Speaking offers top trainers like Alistair Divall.
The College of Public Speaking offers top trainers like Alistair Divall.

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Location

Based in London, the College of Public Speaking offers its courses and workshops throughout central London, in Birmingham, Manchester, Farnborough, Bristol, Maidstone and St Albans. We cater for staff at all levels, whether it be for supervisors, managers, busy executives and right up to Board level. We also offer instruction for the effective delivery of technical material.

Trainers

Our lead trainers Michael Ronayne, Vince Stevenson, Richard Johnson and Alistair Divall have years of experience in the world of speaking and training across some of largest companies in the UK and abroad. We understand the issues involved in influencing people, whether it be senior management or the promotion board in accepting that you are ready for that next major challenge. We all belong to prestigious speakers clubs and regulary deliver speeches. We also participate in National Competitions and therefore ensure that we keep our skills up to date. We work as a cohesive team and support each other in delivering top quality courses and workshops.

Community

The College of Public Speaking also has strong links with the Community having run free workshops at Oxfam, Breast Cancer Care, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Cancer Reasearch UK, The Rainbow Trust, Bromley Field Study Centre and Gordon House, a residential home for people with a gambling addiction.

Alistair Divall

Alistair Dival, public speaking and presentation skills, St Albans, UKSee Alistair working on TV with Frank Bruno and Michaela Strachan.

Versatile Presenter, actor and voiceover artist Alistair Divall has starred in a Specsaver advert and the 6 pack Burger King ad playing a football coach. He can also be seen presenting the highly successful selling DVD "Beckhamania". This exciting documentary profiling the life of Footballer David Beckham is also playing on Sky TV.

Alistair recently recorded a travel show for Sky called 'Oregon uncovered 'Giving him the chance to combine his own adlib style of humour in a unique and watchable way. It's a 15 episode series uncovering the relatively untapped tourist opportunities found in Oregon, including fly fishing, white water rafting and wine tasting.

His lively, flexible voice can perform many exciting character styles ensuring he is in constant demand for television, acting, radio, commercial and corporate work. Alistair's work in the corporate sector includes running presentation skills workshops, customer service seminars and leadership courses. His clients include Boots, BT, British Airways, Heathrow Express, Littlewoods, Mars, Microsoft, Nat West Life, Peugeot, Sainsbury's Homebase, Smiths Crisps, Sony and Vauxhall.

A voice overflowing with energy, quick wit and an unrivalled ability to ad lib, led to Alistair being chosen to host ITV's top rated network music game show "Keynotes" for five successful series. Other television credits include Anglia Television's weekly magazine programme "Weekend Plus" and for HTV "What's On" and "1st Cut" which gave Alistair the opportunity of fine tuning his, already exceptional, interviewing technique, live studio and outside broadcast skills. Alistair also produced, directed and presented a series of holiday programmes called "Destinations" for Sky TV. Always up for a laugh, Alistair appeared on "Dale's Wedding" for BBC 3.

His great voice lends itself to radio. Alistair was regularly heard on LBC presenting a four-hour weekly talk show and NBC 106.4FM. Hosting a live Independent Radio road show to thousands of listeners is also an Alistair speciality.