Rob Biesenbach
Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader
Communicate with Clarity, Confidence and Authority
What’s Your Communication Challenge?
Are your people struggling to:
Build relationships with customers, prospects, or employees?
Close sales or win approvals?
Motivate employees and align them with strategy?
Advance the organization’s goals?
Make technical content more relatable?
Mollify critics and sway skeptics?
Position themselves as credible experts within or outside the organization.
Rob will give them the tools to:
Shift to an audience-focused approach
Build a cohesive narrative around their ideas
Bring energy, warmth and conviction to every occasion
Tap into emotion to inspire action
Structure their content in a compelling framework
Express themselves in a way that’s accessible and relatable
And more …
Rob works with clients in three critical areas:
Presentation skills
Storytelling
Interpersonal communication
From engaging keynotes and presentations to intensive workshops, whether in-person or virtual, Rob has a solution for you.
Engaging Keynotes & Hands-on Workshops
Presentation Skills
Presenters today face a host of challenges, from distracted audiences to Zoom fatigue to the sky-high expectations of the TED Talk era.
This program arms your team with the latest tools and techniques to overcome the presentation hurdles they face, whether it’s listless delivery, lackluster content or mundane visuals. Participants come away with dozens of indispensable tips that will help them modernize their methods and:
- Create more compelling, engaging and interactive content (spoken and visual).
- Deliver their ideas with energy, warmth and authenticity.
- Overcome the hurdles that disrupt speakers and distract audiences.
Presentation Training Workshop
The presentation skills workshop affords a deeper dive into select topics. It features more interactive learning, including individual and group exercises, breakouts, and “hot-seat” sessions in which participants demonstrate their skills and get feedback from Rob and their peers.
Includes the book 11 Deadly Presentation Sins.
Storytelling
Study after study confirms that storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to break down walls with an audience, build trust and influence them to act in our favor.
But what exactly goes into a good story? And how do you find, shape and tell powerful stories that will win hearts and change minds?
This engaging, information-packed session unlocks the essential secrets of storytelling to help your people become more powerful, persuasive communicators.
Story Workshop
The storytelling workshop allows a deeper dive and advanced techniques, more individual attention, and personalized feedback. Participants also get the opportunity to craft and “workshop” their stories in breakouts and “hotseat” sessions, where they get feedback and insights from Rob and their peers.
Workshops can focus on specific types of stories, including:
- Persuasive: everyday stories designed to influence.
- Professional: positions your people for success by capturing their value in a compelling story.
- Organizational: arms employees with a consistent narrative that brings the value proposition to life.
Includes the book Unleash the Power of Storytelling.
Interpersonal Communication
Few things are more important than the ability to communicate our ideas and priorities in a way that is clear, compelling and audience-focused.
But in the daily whirlwind of back-to-back meetings and calls, it can be hard to plan our everyday communication in a thoughtful, strategic way that inspires confidence and gets results.
Participants come away with a step-by-step roadmap for successfully navigating every important communication opportunity with forethought and polish.
Communication Workshop
Participants put the lessons into practice, developing their own custom communication roadmap and testing out a specific message in breakouts and “hot-seat” sessions where they get valuable feedback from Rob and their peers.
Tactical Programs
Rob also offers these presentations on narrower topics of interest:
- Act Like You Mean Business: Lessons for Success from Stage and Screen
- Simplify and Modernize: A Simple Guide to Creating TED-Style Slides
- Master the Virtual Presentation: How to Engage Your Audience Remotely
- Advanced Speaking Tips to Supercharge Your Next Presentation
- Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Advanced Tips for Experts
What else you should know
Certified Virtual Presenter
Whatever the format or platform, Rob delivers one-of-a-kind experiences that keep remote audiences as energized and engaged as they would be in an in-person setting.
He’s been delivering virtual programs for over a decade, for clients including AARP, American Cancer Society, Argonne National Laboratory, Caterpillar, Kodak Alaris and McKesson, among many others.
Specific Audience Expertise
PR Pros and Corporate Communicators
Industry pros are expected to not only demonstrate superior communication skills but to bring out the best in their leaders and clients. As a PR industry veteran, Rob gets it. He offers advanced techniques experts can use both in their own practice and in delivering effective counsel to others.
Rob brings decades of direct experience in both the agency and in-house worlds. Half his engagements are for PR, marketing and corporate communication audiences. And he’s trained comms teams at AARP, Allstate, Argonne National Laboratory and Deloitte as well as at a handful of PR and marketing agencies.
Rob is a proud professional member of PRSA and IABC.
Attorneys
Lawyers operate in a world all their own, with a unique language, highly technical subject matter, and serious guardrails governing how they communicate.
Rob understands this world. He’s a former press secretary to the Ohio Attorney General, communications director at the National Association of Attorneys General and consultant to some of the largest global law firms.
He brings this knowledge to bear in helping lawyers communicate in a more compelling fashion without compromising their personal style or professional standards.
Sales Teams
Rob is not a sales expert, but he helps sales pros sell better. He’s worked with numerous sales and customer-facing teams to bring data to life, connect authentically with prospects and customers, and present in a concise, modern and audience-focused way.
Sales engagements have included ACH Food Companies, Coca-Cola and Country Financial, among others.
