Most people prepare
for the talk.
We prepare you for
what happens after.
Because this isn't a delivery issue. It's a strategy issue.
You're not losing the room
because you're unclear.
You're losing it because you optimised the wrong thing.
You prepared the content. You built the deck. You ran it through twice the night before. The room was polite. Some people nodded. A few said it was interesting.
And then the decision didn't move.
That's not a delivery problem. It's not a confidence problem. It's not a "you need more charisma" problem. It's a strategy problem.
You were solving for the talk. You should have been solving for the outcome — and everything that needs to be true before the talk begins.
That's the gap. And it's why capable, well-prepared people in important rooms keep walking out empty-handed.
Strategic Speaking is not a presentation framework.
It is not about becoming more polished.
It is about designing communication around a specific outcome — starting before you say a word and running through everything that happens after.
The talk is not the strategy. The talk is one piece of a larger system. Strategic Speaking teaches you to design the whole thing.
That includes what needs to be true before you walk into the room. Who needs to be there. What they need to believe, feel, and understand. The structure of what you say. The moment of the ask. And what happens after the moment ends.
This is what separates people who communicate from people who create movement.
Leaders and experts
whose words need to move things.
This is for two types of people.
- Senior leaders and executives navigating high-stakes communication — a board presentation, a stalled stakeholder conversation, a room where alignment keeps sliding away. You communicate well and you know something is still missing.
- Coaches, consultants, and founders whose credibility depends on how they show up when it counts. You have one chance to shift a room, a client, or a decision. The method matters.
- Professionals who are already good communicators — and know something is still missing.
If you're here to become a better speaker in general, there are excellent programmes for that. Strategic Speaking is for people with a specific, high-stakes situation they need to move.
Three elements.
Two days.
Most communication problems are actually three separate problems being treated as one. Strategic Speaking addresses all three — in sequence, applied to a situation you are actually navigating right now.
01
The work before the roomStrategy
What outcome you are designing for. What the right people need to believe before you speak. What conditions you can create — and what you cannot control. This happens before you build anything.
02
What you buildCraft
The message architecture. The sequence of ideas. The moment of the ask. The follow-through after the room ends. Most people call this "the talk." It is one piece of a larger design.
03
How you deliver itPerformance
Presence, precision, pacing. The ability to read a room in real time and adapt without losing the thread. Most communication training only teaches this. Strategic Speaking teaches all three.
Day one gives you the system.
Day two puts you inside it.
Choose the Strategy Day for the complete framework, immediately applicable. Choose the Full Experience for strategy, coached performance, and a filmed final delivery.
The Strategy Day
Complete standalone experience · The full system
- How to define the real outcome — not the surface ask
- How to map what needs to be true before you walk in
- Message architecture: strategy, sequence, the ask
- How to plan the follow-through after the room ends
You leave with the complete system. Apply it to any high-stakes situation from the day after.
The Full Experience
Strategy + Craft + Performance · Filmed delivery
- You bring a real situation — a presentation, a pitch, a decision to move
- You build the craft layer applied to your specific stakes
- You rehearse and receive coaching in real time
- You deliver your final version live, in the room
- You leave with a professionally edited 3–5 minute video
You leave with something built — not just learned.
A professionally edited video
of your final delivery.
Not a recording of a training session. A 3–5 minute, professionally edited version of your live Day Two delivery — the moment you bring a real situation into the room and present it. No other communication programme in Basel includes this.
Corporate leaders
Share internally as part of a leadership profile or visibility initiative. Evidence of capability that goes further than a CV.
Coaches & consultants
A speaking reel or client-facing introduction. The most credible way to show how you think before a first conversation.
Anyone with a high-stakes moment
Watching yourself on film, once, changes how you communicate permanently. Use it to rehearse, refine, and prepare.
Real outcomes.
Named people.
5★
feedback from leaders in Roche, Novartis, Lonza, J&J, Deloitte
25yr
Shivangi's experience — 40+ countries
25yr
Tanya's experience — Fortune 500 to Grammy artists
Top 3%
LinkedIn public speaking · Shivangi
"This has been really enlightening. I am really rethinking how to go after what the goal really is. This is a very different approach than me just making sure I have all my content together."
Gretchen · PhD in Communication · 20+ years experience · Strategic Speaking Masterclass
Results from sessions and cohorts where the Strategic Speaking methodology has been taught:
"He learned to speak with people, not at them. Before, he was technically excellent but lost in a room full of competing voices."
Nacho · HR Director · Roche · Basel
"Her answers were so much better than other candidates — because she had practised and received feedback so many times."
Singapore participant · Strategic Speaking methodology
"Working with Tanya saved me at least half the time I spent on the business. I gained tools and frameworks that continue to help me."
Aniss Mansouri · ScandiNoo
Two decades of strategy.
One room.
Shivangi Walke
TEDx Speaker · Executive Coach · Leadership Master Trainer
Shivangi has trained and coached leaders and leadership teams in over 40 countries for organisations 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.
Tanya MFK
Communication Strategy · Neuroscience of Decision-Making · Before & After Design
Tanya MFK has spent 20 years working at the intersection of communication strategy and decision psychology — with Fortune 500 companies, independent founders, and everyone in between. Her specialism is what happens before you say a word: the strategic architecture that determines whether communication creates movement or just content. She brings the craft and neuroscience layer of Strategic Speaking — how to design message sequences that shift how a listener thinks before they form a response.
Choose your experience.
Early bird pricing closes May 10.
The Strategy Day
The complete system, standalone.
Day One only · Thursday, May 28
The complete Strategic Speaking system — applicable to any high-stakes situation from the day after.
Book The Strategy DayThe Full Experience
Strategy + Performance + Filmed delivery.
Both days · Thursday & Friday, May 28–29
Strategy + Craft + Performance. You bring a real situation, receive coaching, deliver live, and leave with a professionally edited video you keep.
Book The Full Experience
Common questions
Yes — because the fix is structural. Preparing harder is a response to a symptom. Strategic Speaking addresses the cause: you were never given a system for designing a communication moment around an outcome. Once you have it and practise it against a real situation with expert feedback, the pattern breaks.
Most training teaches delivery. Strategic Speaking teaches strategy, craft, and performance — in sequence, applied to a real situation you are navigating right now. The cohort is also cross-company, so the feedback you receive is more honest and more useful than what you get inside your own organisation.
Day One is a complete, standalone experience — not a preview of Day Two. You leave with the full Strategic Speaking system and a new way of thinking about every important communication you have. Choose Day One if you want the strategy system. Choose the Full Experience if you want strategy, coached performance, and a filmed final delivery.
Many past attendees have had their place funded. Download the sponsorship template here — written to make that conversation easy for you.
This is the only Basel cohort before end of year. If you have something high-stakes coming in the next six to eight weeks, May is timed well. If May genuinely does not work, reach out — we will add you to the notification list for the next cohort.
Strategic Speaking — Basel · Thursday & Friday, May 28 & 29, 2026
Led by Shivangi Walke and Tanya MFK
Questions — shivangiwalke.com · shivangi@leadingislearning.co