Make the Stage

Become a World-Class Speaker and Take a Quantum Leap in Your Leadership Skills

Be Visible. Be Heard. Be Seen.

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What is Make the Stage?

Make the Stage (MTS) is a 7-week high-impact “Leadership development through Public Speaking” program specifically designed to propel you and your career to new heights and new stages.

Drawing from my experience of over 25 years leading and teaching globally, I've identified the essential knowledge, skills and mindsets that lie at the intersection of speaking and leadership. And these insights are the foundation of the Make the Stage journey.

This unique program promises an intensive and intimate learning experience that will help you to hone your speaking and presentation skills through a powerful combination of experiential learning mechanisms, a results-focused accountability structure and cutting-edge mindset conditioning techniques.

If you want to change minds and hearts it's as much about your inner game as it is about the words you say and how you say them.

Hence I have chosen a group coaching format, where you not only get to practise the skills you are learning and get expert feedback from me but also from your fellow leaders giving you a powerful 360 degrees view that accelerates your transformation.

  • “You are a role model and showed strong leadership and empathy on stage at the TEDx Talk in Basel!”

    Bettina Gebhardt, Managing Director bei Kontx Kommunikation GmbH

  • “My work with Shivangi has been transformative. The depth of the work that she and I have done over the last year goes to the heart of how I think, perceive, and act.”

    — Senior Executive, top 3 Global Pharmaceutical Organization

  • “Shivangi’s ability to create a safe learning environment in which we could have candid conversations on delicate issues was transformational to the functioning of my management team. Thank you!”

    — VP Marketing, Fortune 100 Conglomerate

Make the Stage will help you…

  • 01

    To set yourself up for success by teaching you how to anayse your audience and prepare like a world class speaker.

  • 02

    Master the art of storytelling as a key speaking tool focusing on the principles and structures that make stories effective.

  • 03

    Master the art of delivering captivating presentations to any audience, whether in-person or virtual, building trust and encouraging eager listening.

  • 04

    Use your voice and body language to enhance your presence on stage and hence the impact of your message.

  • 05

    Learn and apply the principles of influencing and persuading your listeners towards taking action.

  • 06

    Learn how to tap into your authentic voice and tap into your vulnerability as a powerful connection and influencing tool.

How does MTS work?

Make the Stage takes you on a transformative learning journey through curated weekly video training and live online group coaching sessions.

The six core pillars of MTS are built around

  1. The Power of Preparation

  2. The Power of Positioning

  3. The Power of Presentation

  4. The Power of Presence

  5. The Power of Persuasion

  6. The Power of Person

You’ll get:

✅ On-demand video training on the 6 MTS Core pillars with 18 sub-modules

✅ Seven live online group coaching and practice sessions

✅ Two one-on-one laser coaching sessions with Shivangi

✅ Speaking Habit Building Process ™

✅ MTS Confidence Booster Advantage

✅ Emotional Speaking Formula

✅ A private network of like-minded peers

✅ Access to recorded live sessions

Core Curriculum: 6 Powerful Modules

  • I. Power of Preparation

    • Audience Analysis: Learn the importance of understanding your audience and how to conduct an effective audience analysis, enabling you to tailor your message, language, and delivery to effectively connect with your specific audience.

    • Preparing Your Content: How to conduct focused content research. How to distil content into relevant, impactful messaging that resonates with your audience. How to test content applicability and focus on the highest value-add.

    • Preparing Yourself: Discover strategies for thorough preparation, including researching your topic, organizing your content, and creating a compelling message that resonates with your audience.

  • II. Power of Positioning

    • Storytelling principles: Understand the art of storytelling and how to craft narratives that captivate your audience, evoke emotions, and convey your message effectively.

    • Story structure: Explore the various kinds of narrative structures and their utility and power depending on your objective and the needs of the audience

    • Framing techniques: Discover how framing can shape the perception of your message and influence the way your audience interprets and responds to your ideas.

  • III. Power of Presentation

    • Managing Stage Anxiety: Familiarize with a mental model to reframe stage anxiety and choose from a variety of techniques to address physical and mental stage anxiety symptoms.

    • Stage management: Address stage nerves, manage stage presence (in person and virtual) and learn how to effectively utilize the stage to enhance your message and engage your audience

    • Beginning and ending your speech: Learn and practice the techniques to establish connection with your audience right from the start till your memorable end.

  • IV. Power of Presence

    • Body language: Explore non-verbal communication cues and techniques to convey confidence, authenticity, and charisma through your posture, gestures, and facial expressions.

    • Voice and Diction: Develop your vocal skills, including intonation, projection, and articulation, to effectively deliver your message with clarity, impact, and professionalism.

    • Emotional Resonance: Learn about the interplay between universal emotions and intrinsic needs that we share as humans. Enhance your narratives and make them resonate on a deeper level with your audience and inspire them to take action.

  • V. Power of Persuasion

    • Ethos, pathos, logos: Master the persuasive techniques of appealing to credibility (ethos), emotions (pathos), and logic (logos) to influence and connect with your audience on a deeper level.

    • Cialdini's 6 principles of persuasion: Dive deeper into Cialdin´s six principles of persuasion and learn how to apply them ethically to influence and persuade your audience.

    • How to be charismatic: Learn what the elusive concept of charisma really means and how you can become more charismatic

  • VI. Power of Person

    • Authenticity and self-expression: Learn how to tap into your authentic self, unleash your uniqueness, and express your ideas with conviction and passion.

    • Executive Presence: Delve into the core elements of Executive Presence: confidence, communication, and charisma. Foster authentic connections by using appropriate language, and exhibiting active listening skills to establish credibility and authority

    • Strengthening your Leadership Brand: Identify and deploy your leadership brand that aligns with your values, communicates your unique qualities, and enhances your credibility as a speaker and influencer.

Is Make the Stage right for me?

MTS is for determined and ambitious leaders who are keen to play a bigger game and create impact by strengthening their speaking and leadership skills.

Regardless of your industry, thriving as a leader today means knowing how to create impact. Your ability to speak powerfully is a key element of becoming an impactful leader.

Make the Stage works for…

  • Corporate/Non-Profit Leaders

  • Business Owners

  • Coaches/Consultants

Here’s What You’ll Get In Make the Stage:

Whether you’re a corporate or a non-profit leader, a coach or a business owner who wants to scale, or even someone in transition MTS can help. This 7-week online program provides the elements vital to increase your impact in today´s world.

Clarity

Knowing what you need to work on and how to increase your impact.

Results

Focused cohort-based learning environment to maximise growth & results.

Training

Uplevel your personal brand by refining your speaking skills.

  • “You are a role model and showed strong leadership and empathy on stage at the TEDx Talk in Basel!”

    Bettina Gebhardt, Managing Director bei Kontx Kommunikation GmbH

  • “My work with Shivangi has been transformative. The depth of the work that she and I have done over the last year goes to the heart of how I think, perceive, and act.”

    — Senior Executive, top 3 Global Pharmaceutical Organization

  • “Shivangi’s ability to create a safe learning environment in which we could have candid conversations on delicate issues was transformational to the functioning of my management team. Thank you!”

    — VP Marketing, Fortune 100 Conglomerate

Who teaches Make the Stage?

Make the Stage is led by Shivangi Walke, TEDx Speaker, Executive Coach and Leadership Master trainer. Shivangi has trained, and coached leaders and leadership teams in over 40 countries for organizations like Google, Airbus, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Syngenta, Roche, and Pfizer. She has inspired thousands of people globally through her non-profit Thrive with Mentoring and through her keynotes and speeches, most recently at TEDx Basel, Switzerland.

What you’ll learn in MTS is based on over 25 years of leading, training and coaching experience, not theory. Train personally with the industry leader who has successfully transitioned from  corporate to establish her own commercial and non-profit ventures based on her speaking and influencing skills.

Shivangi speaking at TEDx Basel

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GOLDEN GUARANTEE

I guarantee you a transformation in your public speaking skills. By following the strategies and techniques taught in this course, you will see a remarkable improvement in your confidence and ability to captivate any audience.

I guarantee you unwavering support on your journey. As your coach, I am committed to providing personalized guidance and assistance whenever you need it, ensuring that you feel supported and empowered throughout the course.

I guarantee your satisfaction with the course. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with the content or your learning experience, I will personally work with you to address your concerns and ensure your utmost satisfaction.

I guarantee you access not just to top-quality content but also methodology.  As a public speaker and master trainer I have meticulously designed this course to meet critical instructional design principles. 

I guarantee you lifetime access to the course materials. Once you enrol, you will have unlimited access to the course content so that you can revisit the lessons and continue to benefit from the course for as long as you need.

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Make the Stage Overview

Quick answers to the most common questions

  • MTS is a 7-week live online learning program for leaders who want to increase the created impact by mastering speaking skills. To see the core curriculum, click here.

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  • That's totally OK. The program focuses on helping you build your speaking skills - you can choose the channel to deploy those skills. This can be at work, for your business or as a coach or consultant.

    The program is built in such a way that the material is completely transferable, whether you're seeking to create an impact in your company or your field, in general.

  • Everything is online — no travel is required.

    Please expect to invest 3-4 hours weekly to do justice to the video training and the live online sessions.

  • This program has been designed and will be delivered by a master trainer and executive coach who has trained leaders and leadership teams in more than 40 countries.

    MTS  is action-oriented, purpose-driven, and transformative.

    Instead of swamping you with heady business theories, MTS will give you a proven step-by-step roadmap to becoming an impactful leader by strengthening your speaking skills and managing your inner world.

    The power of MTS doesn’t lie in proprietary videos or secret formulas.

    As E.O. Wilson remarked, “We’re drowning in information, but starving for wisdom.”

    The real value of MTS is in the application and feedback cycles of the skills you’ll learn.

  • MTS cohort 1 is ongoing. Please join the waitlist. The next cohort will be launched on 14th Feb 2024 and 10th April 2024.

Who is MTS Perfect For?

  • MTS is designed for busy professionals – corporate or non-profit leaders, coaches or small business owners

    If you:

    • Identify as an ambitious leader who wants to increase the impact

    • Likes to learn in a cohort of other leaders.

    • Want a distraction-free environment that prioritizes action and results

    • Are open to both receiving and offering honest feedback

    Then MTS is perfect for you.

  • MTS is not the right fit for everyone. I care about your success and want you to make the best decision. Please consider, MTS is cohort-based and group coaching orientated. If you prefer individualized coaching then please write to shivangi@leadingislearning.co

    MTS needs you to be ready to do the heavy lifting and be ready to receive and offer feedback.

  • Many of us have had doubts at one point or another about whether we're really qualified. In fact, there's a module in the course about "dealing with self-doubt" or what I like to call mastering the little inner critic voice. If you have no training or experience, then of course MTS won't magically help with that. But if you're a smart professional who has been working hard and you know in your heart you have something to offer, MTS will teach you the skills and strategies to get your ideas more heard and create an impact.

  • MTS will be delivered online via Zoom, a platform to store the videos and a community connection tool such as WhatsApp. As such basic skills will suffice.

  • I strongly recommend that you participate in all seven live online sessions. But if you miss one, it’s not a disaster. You can send in your questions in advance and you will receive a time-limited recording of the session. 

  • Well, if you were my coaching client I’d ask you to: Body Check: How does the thought of joining make you feel? Excited? A bit scared but thrilled? That's a green light.

    Voice Check: Is it your inner wisdom or inner critic talking? Listen to wisdom, and question the critic. Especially if it's saying you're not "good enough" for this group.

    Fear Check: Got a specific worry? Write it down and send me a note at shivangi@leadingislearning.co

    Success Check: If failure was off the table and you knew you'd fit right in, what would you do?

    Make your decision from a place of insight, not fear.

Tuition

  • The investment in MTS starts at 2500 CHF (plus VAT if relevant). There are options available to bundle additional elements with the basic program.

  • Our preferred way for you to pay is via bank transfer. Here are the details:

    Leading is Learning GmbH | IBAN: CH 5109000000899341518 | BIC : POFICHBEXXX |

    VAT#: CHE-313.387.721

    We also accept all major credit cards including Visa and Mastercard.

  • “You are a role model and showed strong leadership and empathy on stage at the TEDx Talk in Basel!”

    Bettina Gebhardt, Managing Director bei Kontx Kommunikation GmbH

  • “My work with Shivangi has been transformative. The depth of the work that she and I have done over the last year goes to the heart of how I think, perceive, and act.”

    — Senior Executive, top 3 Global Pharmaceutical Organization

  • “Shivangi’s ability to create a safe learning environment in which we could have candid conversations on delicate issues was transformational to the functioning of my management team. Thank you!”

    — VP Marketing, Fortune 100 Conglomerate

Last Little Details

  • Today the problem is not about the availability of information but information overload.  But reading more and more about something doesn’t actually improve your skillset.

    MTS is not about access to a set of hidden videos or secret formulas. It’s about leveraging your unique strengths and building your speaking skills through working with a master trainer and a cohort of learners who are on a similar journey.

    Putting yourself in MTS means putting yourself in an environment designed to help unleash your full potential.

  • No. MTS is intentionally unaccredited and informal.

    If you would like a certificate upon completion, I'm glad to provide one. But to be clear, the Make the Stage Course is intended as a personal learning tool for you, and there is no formal certificate through an accreditation body. This is an investment in your personal growth which I believe will pay off in many ways than you may have considered.

  • Please write to Shivangi@leadingislearning.co for any other questions

TAKE THE LEAP

It´s high time that you prioritized your dreams and goals.

I hope to see you in class.