5-Day Live Intensive
February 11-15, 2027 • Columbiana, Ohio
NLP Public Speaking &
Presentation Skills Intensive
A 5-day NLP-based speaker training for
coaches, leaders, trainers, and professionals.
Are you looking for NLP public speaking training, or perhaps, public speaking training using NLP? If so, SpeakerGenius™ could be ideal for you. This is a live small-group course designed to help you speak with more confidence, presence, emotional intelligence, and audience influence.
Whether you’re presenting in a boardroom, leading a workshop, delivering a keynote, or selling from the stage, this course helps you become more clear, memorable, persuasive, and effective without relying on memorization.
Quick At-a-glance:
Who it’s for: Coaches, trainers, leaders and aspiring speakers who want stronger confidence, delivery, and audience impact, or those who are specifically seeking NLP-based Public Speaking training.
Format: 5 days live • 35+ hours • Daily stage time • Personal feedback
Results: Stronger confidence, clearer delivery, and more audience impact, without memorizing scripts.
Take-home: Video proof of your progress from day 1 to day 5, our 97pp manual, and some additional printed resources.
Location: Columbiana, Ohio • Feb 11-15, 2027
See what People Say after 5 Days:
Here, Elder Law Attorney Bill Hammond recommends Jonathan Altfeld’s SpeakerGenius course…
(previously titled “Speaking Ingeniously”)
What you’ll be able to do after 5 days:
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Open strongly and capture attention fast
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Speak with more confidence and less fear
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Present effectively without memorizing every word
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Use stories, stage movement, and emotional transitions more skillfully
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Hold attention in boardrooms, workshops, keynotes, and sales presentations
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Guide audiences more clearly toward action, agreement, or insight
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Notice audience feedback sooner and adjust in real time
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Leave with recorded proof of your progress
Meet Your Trainer, Jonathan Altfeld
Jonathan Altfeld has spent nearly 30 years helping people become more skillful, influential communicators. SpeakerGenius™ is built around his NLP-based methods for state control, audience calibration, storytelling, and live platform influence.
This course is designed to strengthen both prepared and unprepared speaking, from keynotes and workshops to boardroom presentations and persuasive sales communication. To that end, you’ll be coached not only on what you say, but on how you deliver it, how your audience responds, and how to shape that response more effectively.
Effective public speaking can be learned!
Public speaking is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop. And you may know, that it is also one of the most common fears people face. As a result, SpeakerGenius is designed to help you become significantly more comfortable, more skillful, and more effective on stage. And you won’t be relying on any slow, outdated training methods!
Many speaking programs focus on isolated habits or surface-level performance tips. This course takes a different approach. Using NLP-based training methods, SpeakerGenius helps you build better speaking habits faster, reduce unhelpful patterns, and become more confident and influential in front of a group.
Whether you currently feel nervous on stage or already have speaking experience, the goal is the same: to help you communicate more clearly, connect more deeply, and create stronger responses in your audience.
Captivate audiences more naturally
One of the most satisfying parts of becoming a stronger speaker is realizing that people are not just listening to you more closely, they are responding more deeply to what you say. As your confidence, structure, and delivery improve, speaking becomes less effortful and far more rewarding.
That’s the kind of change SpeakerGenius is designed to create.
Results you can expect from this NLP public speaking training:
- Develop a stronger sense of process versus content while you speak
- Pay better attention to your audience without losing your place
- Open presentations more strongly and recover attention more easily
- Use stage movement and structure more intentionally
- Become more concise and reduce distracting habits
- Notice audience signals sooner and respond more effectively
- Speak with more confidence, clarity, and influence
- Make your presentations more vivid, memorable, and engaging
Mornings: Training, demos, and exercises. You’ll learn the models, watch demonstrations, and practice in structured exercises that build both understanding and usable NLP public speaking skill.
Afternoons: Stage time and precise feedback. Each afternoon focuses heavily on your speaking time, followed by direct, actionable coaching so you can improve fast.
Video evidence of your progress. Your presentations are recorded for your benefit. Which means, by the end of the course, you’ll be able to compare your day-1 and day-5 performances side by side.
35+ hours of live training. Officially, the course runs a minimum of 35 hours across 5 days. In practice, students often experience even more value through extended discussion and feedback.
How NLP Helps Public Speaking
NLP helps public speaking by improving state control, audience awareness, emotional transitions, storytelling, and delivery under pressure. So, in SpeakerGenius, you won’t just hear theory… you’ll practice these skills live until they become more natural, reliable, and usable in real speaking situations.
If Speaking makes you nervous…
Early parts of the course are designed to reduce fear and replace it with steadier, more useful and enjoyable public speaking states.
If you already speak confidently…
You’ll learn how to become more concise, more influential, and more precise in the way you guide an audience’s attention and response.
Course Curriculum:
Skills You’ll Practice and Build
Mastering Emotional State-Chaining
At the heart of SpeakerGenius is Emotional State-Chaining. State Chaining, which is a core NLP public speaking skill, helps you guide an audience from passive, uncertain, or resistant states into more engaged, responsive, and action-oriented ones!
Essentially, in practical terms, you’ll learn how to shape the emotional flow of a presentation so your message is not merely understood, but more deeply felt, remembered, and acted upon.
Strategic Skills for Group Influence
Chunking Strategies: Learn when to begin from the big picture and when to move into detail, so your presentation matches the way your audience actually needs to process information.
Headlines for Instant Curiosity: Learn how to open in ways that immediately create attention and interest, so you begin from engagement rather than trying to recover it later.
Spatial and Stage Anchoring: Discover how to use physical space, movement, and stage position to reinforce meaning, improve retention, and strengthen influence.
NLP Time Distortion: Learn patterns that change an audience’s experience of time, helping your presentations feel more immersive, compelling, and memorable.
The Art of Being Succinct: Use focused exercises to reduce fluff, tighten your language, and make your delivery more direct and effective.
Multiple Presentation Structures: Practice more than five ways to organize content, including timeline-based delivery and reverse-designed presentations built for stronger retention.
Influential Language Patterns: Learn language patterns drawn from NLP that can increase clarity, suggestion, and persuasive impact in front of a group.
Sensory-Rich Language: Make your communication more vivid, experiential, and memorable by speaking in ways that audiences can more easily see, hear, and feel.
Active vs. Frozen Language: Learn how different word choices either support movement, energy, and possibility or slow a presentation down and reduce impact.
Why this Training Works Differently
Many public speaking courses focus almost entirely on content: what to say, how to outline it, and how to rehearse it. NLP public speaking courses are very different than this.
SpeakerGenius also trains the process side of speaking: your state, your audience awareness, your timing, your emotional pacing, and the way your communication lands in real time.
That matters because audiences do not respond only to words. They respond to certainty, clarity, emotion, timing, structure, and presence. This course is designed to strengthen all of those.
Success Stories: Results from SpeakerGenius
How a TEDx Speaker Levelled Up with Advanced Training:
Greg Smith says: “I’ve spent the last two and a half years specifically… reading books, I did a TEDx speech, I’ve traveled to California several times, working with some of the best presenters in the world… Jonathan is… a notch above.
Mastering the “Floorplan” for Memorable Presentations:
Tina Orr shares her experience: “[…] I guarantee you at the end of this process, that you will never forget the floorplan that he’s given you. You won’t. You’ll see it in your mind, every single time you want to tell people something, or you want to get up and speak about something… I guarantee you’ll start off with a headline, you’ll do every single step that he’s given you. […]”
The Transformation from Beginner to Influential Speaker:
Tom Varley says: “[…] I have seen these transitions in the people that took the class with me. How people came to the class, and how they left, after a week of this teaching, and the influence that Jonathan had on everyone… it was… simply incredible. It allowed everybody to open up, find themselves, and I think just be a little bit better of who they were… when they first started. […]”
Jonathan is a superb trainer with a deep understanding of his subject. His work developing the skills of my team has continued to add value over time.”
(Robert hired Jonathan to deliver some of the content from this course, onsite, for his team).
“This course is the best integration & application of NLP public speaking techniques I have ever experienced. Jonathan is masterful in his ability to help you with your unique public speaking & presenting problems. He essentially creates a custom “model” for each participant’s presentation success based on your needs, style & goals.”
“With considerable experience giving keynotes, I thought I was very good on stage. The new skills & confidence that Jonathan has guided into my mind make my previous level of professionalism pale and insignificant by comparison. This class is the best preparation for public speaking that I have ever seen, heard of, or experienced.”
“The massive growth every attendee experienced in our public speaking skills would be hard to believe if we didn’t have the DVD evidence! The way Jonathan trains means that everyone, regardless of their current skill level, gets massive benefits from his courses. He has mastered the impossible art of training different skill levels concurrently, and it’s the most effortless and powerful learning I’ve experienced. You won’t find the majority of this material anywhere else.”
After taking this course in May ’05, my monthly income literally doubled! That made the course an extreme bargain. I only wish I’d known about it before I started speaking in public for money. Jonathan recorded all my speeches, and then gave me a DVD at the end of the course. That DVD was the ultimate convincer that my time and money was well spent.
Is This an NLP Trainers Training Course?
Many people search for that phrase because they want stronger platform skills, better audience influence, mastery of “NLP State-Chaining,” and more command of the room. That said, SpeakerGenius is not a trainer certification program. Instead, it is a 5-day intensive designed to build the real-world NLP public speaking, presentation, and group-influence skills many people are actually looking for when they search for NLP trainers training.
One attendee who overcame his fear of public speaking!
Eric Johnson, Bradenton, FL
Mortgage Broker, Financial Coach & Founder of the Financial Independence Project
Ready to Start Becoming a
Stronger, More Influential Speaker?
If you want a serious, practical NLP public speaking intensive that helps you become more confident, more concise, more engaging, and more effective with audiences, SpeakerGenius™ is designed for exactly that.
Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re committed to delivering far more value to you than you pay in tuition. We offer you this guarantee, because we’re confident enough in our ability to do this for anyone: If you’re not 100% satisfied that this seminar program truly and measurably helps you to transform your ability to speak on stage, reduce any fear of public speaking, and generally make your platform skills much more compelling, simply let us know at any point through the first 2 days and we’ll refund your US$ tuition paid (less a 4% admin fee). More info is shown on our policies page.
Dates, Location, & Travel
Dates: February 11-15, 2027
Training Venue:
Best Western Plus Dutch Haus Inn and Suites
150 E State Route 14, Columbiana, OH
Accommodations:
You are welcome to stay at the Best Western Plus or at another nearby hotel. Additionally, plan to arrive the day before on February 10th, so you are rested and ready to begin on the morning of February 11. We have a room block at the Best Western, for the nights of February 10-14, 2027, inclusive.
Flying? Pittsburgh (PIT) is the closest major airport at ~45 miles. Cleveland (CLE) is the next closest at roughly 85 miles. A rental car or car service is recommended.
Included Bonuses:
- Bonus Gift #1: “Finding Your Irresistible Voice” 2-hour program (a $99 value)
- Bonus Gift #2: “Creating the Automatic Yes” 4-hour program (a $199 value).
Early Registration Bonus:
The first 5 seats filled also receive a 45-minute online coaching session with Jonathan Altfeld (a $375 value).
Investment and Payment Deadlines:
Reserve your seat with a fully refundable $400 deposit, then pay the remaining balance by your chosen deadline.
- Pay remaining balance in January or February 2027: US$2295 less $400 deposit paid = $US1895
- Paid in November or December 2026: US$2195 – save US$100! Less $400 deposit paid = $US1795
- Paid in September or October, 2026: US$2095 – save US$200! Less $400 deposit paid = $US1695
- Paid in July or August, 2026: US$1995 – save US$300 <– Earlier-Bird! US$1595 remaining balance.
- Click on the below button, and pay a $400 (refundable) deposit to reserve your seat. Provide a good email address in your purchase sequence, please!
- We’ll email you confirmation of receipt, plus add’l info (hotel, travel, tuition).
- Pay remaining balance by a chosen early-bird date to lock that tuition.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is this good for beginners?
Absolutely! The beauty of teaching a model for flexible speaking to a small group of 15 people maximum at a time, is that every single attendee gets massively better at their craft, wherever they are when they arrive. I’ve been at this for almost 30 years now (writing in 2026). It’s amazing to watch. Beginners and experts both push their craft forward dramatically, and, they both enjoy watching others at different levels progress quickly!
Do I need prior NLP experience?
No. Many attendees have some exposure to NLP, but it is not required. The course is designed to be useful both for people new to NLP and for experienced practitioners. Learning NLP Public Speaking isn’t about using or sharing NLP in public, its about you, effectively using NLP in your speaking toolkit, to massively level up both your comfort and your ability to speak to a wide variety of groups on just about any subject!
For an advanced topic, you might enjoy this blog post on how we can create experiences to evoke Awe in your audiences!
What if I'm terrified of Public Speaking?
That is common, and this course is designed to help you become more comfortable quickly. Early exercises are specifically built to reduce fear and strengthen NLP public speaking confidence.
Will I get coached personally?
Every single day, you will get personalized feedback on your efforts. For your own rapid growth, I provide world-class feedback loops designed to help you amaze yourself with your progress.
Do I need a prepared talk?
No. Prepared material can help, but it is not required. Part of the training is becoming stronger in both planned and unplanned speaking situations.
What exactly do I take home?
You leave with video proof of your immense progress from Day 1 to Day 5.
You will emerge with a level of comfort and confidence that ensures your voice will always be heard, appreciated, and valued.
What are the Daily Hours?
The training day runs roughly 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with a meal break in the middle, and we end a little early on Day 5 (for travelers).
Is this an NLP Trainer certification?
SpeakerGenius is not a certification program. Instead, this course delivers the actual behavioral competence and State-Chaining mastery usually reserved for the highest levels of professional Neuro-Linguistic Programming training. We want you to be able to apply these skills to training anything, rather than just NLP skills.
What's refundable and until when?
Your $400 deposit is refundable, and your full tuition is refundable up to 2 weeks before the course (less a 4% admin fee). Within 2 weeks of the course, we really can’t easily fill your seat. If you do come to the course, and you’re not satisfied that the seminar is measurably helping you by the end of day 2, you may request a refund of full tuition paid, less the 4% admin fee.