Be Heard. Be Seen. Own Stage & Screen.
Nobody complains about your presentations. That's the problem.
You prepare, you present, people nod. Nobody objects, and the decision moves to next month. Because nothing visibly goes wrong, nothing gets fixed.
The Speak UPP! Lab takes one real moment that matters from design to delivery. Done with you, until it lands.
The cost nobody puts on the agenda
What autopilot costs.
It's not a talent problem. You know your stuff. It's autopilot: the same deck, the same format, the same polite nods. And it costs more than you think.
For the presenter
- Hours of prep for the same polite nods.
- Follow-up meetings because the first one didn't land.
- The right idea losing to a better-presented one.
For the organisation
- Decisions that wait another quarter.
- Expert knowledge that gets shared, but not transferred.
- Meetings that inform, but don't move anything.
Done with you
Most fixes cover one part. The Lab covers all three, with you.
A moment that lands takes design (shaping the message), development (building the piece) and delivery (landing it in the room). Most options cover only part of it.
You bring a moment that matters: a pitch, a buy-in presentation, your monthly update. We work on it together, online, from first idea to dry run. You deliver it, and we debrief.
I won't create it for you. I'll make sure you can.
You leave with the piece, and with the skills to do the next one yourself.
| Design | Develop | Deliver | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-learning | Partly | Partly | Partly |
| Agency or speechwriter | Yes | Yes | No |
| Coaching | Partly | No | Yes |
| Speak UPP! Lab | Yes | Yes | Yes |
How it works
Seven steps, planned backwards from your date.
Live and online. Built on the Speak UPP! method: Understand, Prepare, Perform.
- 1IntakeThe moment, the room, the goal.
- 2Diagnose and shapeWhere it's weak, what it needs.
- 3BuildYou build. I push and sharpen.
- 4Review and rehearseRun it, refine it, repeat.
- 5Dry runClose to real conditions.
- 6The momentOn screen or in the room.
- 7DebriefWhat worked, what's next.
Three formats
Solo, as a team, or in a small cohort.
Solo Lab
One person, one piece.
Just you, your moment and me. Full attention on your piece, planned around your date, from the first idea to the debrief. For professionals inside organisations and for independents.
Team Lab
A team, one shared piece.
For the moment you deliver together: the joint pitch, the launch, the workshop you run as a team. Built with everyone involved, so it lands as one story, not a relay of separate slides.
Cohort Lab
A small group, each with their own piece.
The same route, in a small group. Everyone brings their own moment, coming up soon or one they deliver regularly, and sharpens it with peer feedback in the room.
Not sure which one fits? That's what the discovery call is for.
What it takes
A real moment, and the will to build it.
A real moment
A pitch, an update, a session. Coming up soon, or delivered regularly.
Time
Planned backward from the date. Number and length of sessions agreed at intake.
Willingness to build
You build it. That's what makes the skills stick.
Investment
Depends on format and timeline. Agreed in the discovery call.
Hi, I'm Ricardo
20+ years of making people better communicators. 6 years of mastering the screen.
My first big stage presentation, in Paris in 2001, was a tough one where I failed miserably. But the journey that followed taught me most of what I teach today. I've worked as a facilitator, learning designer and coach, helping professionals across Europe, Asia and the Gulf find their voice, presence and confidence.
Since the shift to virtual, I've helped hundreds of professionals tackle the specific challenge of presenting through a screen: how to project energy, hold attention and create real connection when there's no room to read.
Inside organisations, I keep seeing the same pattern: smart people on autopilot, running the same presentation again and again while the opportunities slip past. The Lab is how I help them break it. In their real moment, side by side, until it lands.
Clients include Philips, Signify, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, Qatar Energy, Heineken and Xerox.
The Lab is running its first pilot. Participant stories will appear here as they come in.
Pick your next step
Choose the one that fits where you are right now.
Not ready yet?
The Speak UPP! Playbook
Free. Practical tools to make your next on-screen presentation land. Send me an email and I'll send it to you.
Email me for the PlaybookNeed to convince someone?
The Lab One-Pager
How the Lab works, the formats and what it takes, on one page. Easy to forward to your manager or L&D team.
Open the One-PagerReady to talk?
A discovery call
30 minutes about your moment, to see whether the Lab is the right fit. No preparation needed.
Book a discovery callQuestions? Write to connect@ricardosteinbuch.com.