GRACE UNDER FIRE: POWER & PRESENCE

This isn’t about confidence.
It’s about signal.

How you enter.
How you pause.
How you respond when the room is watching.

Influence in 2026 isn’t volume.
It’s clarity under pressure.

This one-day experience trains how you hold the moment — in meetings, negotiations, interviews, and leadership rooms where presence decides what happens next.

🎯 What You’ll Train

By the end of the day, you won’t be “trying” to sound confident.
You’ll be operating from presence.

You will train how to:

• Hold silence without filling it
• Answer pressure with precision instead of explanation
• Take space without asking for permission
• Stay steady while being evaluated, challenged, or watched
• Be felt before you speak — and remembered after you do

🔥 THE WORK

This is a live training ground for high-stakes moments.

You’ll move through real-time scenarios, micro-challenges, and presence drills designed to rewire how you respond when attention is on you.

You’ll practice how to:

✅ Speak in fewer, stronger words
✅ Redirect pressure instead of absorbing it
✅ Enter rooms already “set”
✅ Keep your center when the pace accelerates
✅ Align your voice, body, and timing into one clear signal

No scripts.
No role-play theater.
No motivational talk.

Just reps for real life.

💥 WHO THIS IS FOR

• Leaders who want their presence to carry before their title does
• Professionals done negotiating their own authority
• People ready to be seen, felt, and taken seriously in high-stakes rooms

This is not soft skills.
This is status literacy.

🍷 Includes lunch for full-day attendees
🔘 Reserve your spot — and stop shrinking when the moment calls for you.

Prescott Gaylord

Improv Director | Embodied Presence Coach | Applied Theatre Practitioner

Prescott helps leaders stop performing — and start embodying it.

With 20+ years in improv theatre and embodied leadership, he’s trained executives from LinkedIn, PayPal, DBS and more to think on their feet, speak with presence, and stay grounded under pressure.

Former Artistic Director of Baltimore Improv Group, Prescott blends movement, theatre, and humour into a training style that’s disarming, practical — and fun.

Expect:

✔️ Big shifts without the stiffness

✔️ Playful pressure-testing that lands deep

✔️ A safe space to experiment, mess up, and grow

Anna Ong

Storytelling Coach | Founder, What’s Your Story Slam | LinkedIn Top Voice

Anna helps leaders speak like they mean it — no fluff, no corporate filler.

She’s a former banker turned storytelling coach who’s trained thousands and personally coached over 300 leaders to ditch jargon, speak with clarity, and own their presence — whether in a boardroom or on a stage.

Anna is the creator of What’s Your Story Slam — Singapore’s longest-running live storytelling show — and a LinkedIn Top Voice on authentic leadership.

Expect:

✔️ Tough love + practical tools

✔️ Big “aha” moments with zero eye-rolls

✔️ Coaching that makes your story stick — and sell

🎤 Together, they’ll help you:

✔️ Stay sharp under pressure

✔️ Command a room without shouting

✔️ Speak stories that resonate — from your gut, not a Google Doc