THE 2ND R
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Speaker training

The Business of Being

OWN YOUR VOICE.
MOVE THE ROOM.

Four days to develop the presence, precision, and speaking skills that make communication engaging, powerful, and alive.

4 daysPublic speakingPresence + impact
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The possibility

What changes when people feel the possibility in what you say?

Your voice carries more than words. It carries your attention, conviction, clarity, and relationship with the people listening. The Business of Being develops the whole speaker—the person, the message, and the ability to meet an audience in the moment.

From a small team meeting to the ambition of addressing 20,000 people, the work is about connection. Learn to speak with purpose, hold attention, and invite people into a possibility they can see and care about. Your message becomes an experience people can engage with.

What you develop

01

Train your instrument.

Develop voice, pacing, silence, posture, movement, and use of space as deliberate speaking skills.

02

Meet your audience.

Strengthen your ability to listen, read the room, build relationship, and respond as the moment unfolds.

03

Make your message land.

Bring clarity, authentic self-expression, and conviction together to inspire participation and meaningful action.

Inside the experience

Presence becomes a skill you develop.

This four-day speaker training brings the mechanics of communication into relationship with the person using them. As those skills become more available, you can give more attention to your audience, your message, and the change you want to invite.

Years of teaching. A living body of work.

Depth behind the experience.

The 2nd R draws on more than twenty years of Dack's teaching and facilitation, ongoing study of human development, and the continued evolution of this curriculum. The purpose stays close to life: stronger people, stronger relationships, and communities with more capacity to create together.

Your next conversation

What would you say if you brought your whole self to it?

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