Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator

Technically skilled
people deserve a
different kind of session.

Most keynote speakers teach presence and storytelling as ideas. I teach them as technique - because that is what they are. 18 years on stage, trained at East 15 and Lecoq. to bring the craft itself, not a description of it.

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18 Years on stage
East 15
and Lecoq Trained
108 Five-star reviews
Owen, keynote speaker and performance coach at We Are Delphi
★★★★★
5.0 Rating 108 Bark Reviews

The Problem

Being technically good at
one kind of communication
does not transfer automatically.

I work with a lot of people who are highly skilled communicators in their own context. Barristers who are compelling in court but find that the same register works against them in a client seminar. Sales professionals who can hold a one-to-one but lose the room the moment they are presenting to a group. Speaking coaches who understand the theory but want their students to experience it embodied, not explained.

The pattern is the same across all of them. Technical skill in one context does not automatically transfer to another. Courtroom advocacy and seminar presenting are not the same skill. Neither are selling and presenting. The room changes, the objective changes, and crucially, what the audience needs from you changes - even when the underlying craft looks identical from the outside.

What closes that gap, almost every time, is story. Not anecdote for the sake of it - but the deliberate use of narrative to carry technical content in a form the brain can actually follow. People do not retain data. They retain how data made them feel, and the story that carried it. A barrister who can weave a case into a narrative that a client can follow is not dumbing it down - they are doing something harder and more skilled than presenting the facts in sequence. The same is true in a sales presentation, a seminar, a keynote. Data tells. Story lands.

"They know their subject inside out. But they lecture rather than connect, and we lose the room halfway through."

On presenting to clients who chose to be there

"Our people are brilliant one-to-one. Put them in front of a group and something shifts."

On the difference between selling and presenting

"We need someone our students cannot just sit back and analyse. Someone who makes them work."

On sessions for trained communicators

"They are confident speakers in their professional context. This arena is different and they know it."

On skilled people encountering a new kind of room
"The techniques that make you authoritative in a formal context are often the exact things working against you when the room wants to feel let in on something."
OWEN - Actor, Coach, We Are Delphi
Owen, keynote speaker and performance coach
"It is not theory I teach. It is technique I have spent close to two decades practising."

Why Owen

18 years on stage.
Not 18 years of
reading about it.

I trained at East 15 and Lecoq - two schools built specifically around the physical and emotional craft of performance. Not performance as art, but performance as communication: how the body speaks before a word is said, how vocal texture carries meaning that words alone cannot, how emotional connection works under pressure, and how to establish it in the first three seconds before the room has decided whether to trust you.

What makes this useful for professional audiences is that these techniques are not theatrical - they are transferable. The same physical principles that hold a theatre audience hold a seminar room, a client presentation, or a room of people who are already trained to notice what you are doing.

Storytelling sits at the centre of all of it. Not as a soft skill but as a structural one. The brain is not built to follow data - it is built to follow narrative. Every piece of technical content has a story inside it. Finding that story and delivering it with physical presence is what separates the professional who informs from the one who actually shifts something in the room. I now work as a coach at We Are Delphi, where our team has helped 300+ clients with over 100 five-star reviews.

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East 15 and Lecoq Trained

Two of the world's leading schools in physical and emotional performance craft

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18 Years on Stage

Technique built through professional practice, not textbooks

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Body, Voice and Emotional Connection

The physical craft of communication - how it actually works and how to use it

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We Are Delphi - 108 Five-Star Reviews

Trusted by 300+ clients across coaching and performance

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How the Session Thinks

Technical skill and
connection are not
the same thing.

One of the most consistent things I see across professional groups is the gap between being technically correct and actually landing with a room. This is what the session addresses directly.

What most professional training produces

Technical correctness

Structured. Controlled. Clear. The right information in the right order, delivered with composure and authority. In many professional contexts, this is exactly right - and for good reason.

  • Organised and credible
  • Authoritative register
  • Information delivered accurately
  • The speaker is in control of the material

This works brilliantly in the right context. The problem is that the room does not always want this - and applying it when connection is what is needed actively gets in the way.

What this session adds

Presence and connection

The audience feels something. They feel let in on something, rather than presented at. The speaker is still in command, but the distance is gone.

  • The room is with you, not processing you
  • Warmth without losing authority
  • Information that lands rather than transmits
  • The audience feels seen, not lectured

This is not about being less professional. It is about understanding that different contexts require different modes - and having the technique to shift between them.

The session does not ask people to become performers. It asks them to understand how the same principles that make performance work apply to their own professional context - and to practise making that shift deliberately, not accidentally. Storytelling is the primary vehicle for that shift. It is where technical knowledge stops being a list and starts being something an audience can follow, remember, and act on.

The Session

Keynote plus workshop.
One cohesive session.

The shape below is typical. The content is always built around your group, what they already know, and what they need most.

01

The Keynote: The Body Speaks Before You Do

A live, demonstration-led keynote on the physical and emotional craft of communication. Body language, vocal texture, the three-second connection window, and how these work differently depending on what the room needs from you. No slides. Just the work, performed in front of people who can see what is happening.

30 - 40 minutes
02

The Workshop: Storytelling as the Vehicle

Hands-on work using storytelling as the through-line - because story is where body, voice and emotion have to work together in real time, and because it is the most reliable way to make technical content land. People do not follow data. They follow narrative. The workshop takes participants' own material and finds the story inside it. Live feedback, practical adjustments, no theory without application.

45 - 60 minutes
03

Open Floor

The floor opens for questions, including the hard ones. What did people notice? What was happening technically? How does this apply to a seminar, a client presentation, a room of people who know their subject but lose their audience? This is often where skilled groups get the most from the session.

15 - 20 minutes

What People Say

Five stars.
Here are some of them.

Real reviews from real clients on Bark. Unedited.

★★★★★ 5.0 - 108 reviews
★★★★★
"Owen is clearly extremely experienced and competent. He brings a high level of warmth, fun and professionalism to all of our sessions that meet me where I am. He has effortlessly found my weak points and created activities to strengthen them. I would not hesitate to recommend him."
Pasco Ashton
Bark Review - 5 Stars
★★★★★
"I really enjoyed Owen's coaching sessions. The exercises were practical and engaging. I especially liked how Owen used acting techniques and applied them to real scenarios. Highly recommend Owen for anyone looking to improve their presence and communication skills."
Kerry Meakins
Bark Review - 5 Stars
★★★★★
"Owen is a thoughtful and grounded coach who creates a safe, encouraging space for real growth. I left our sessions feeling clearer, more confident, and more myself, with practical tools I could take away and use."
Anna
Bark Review - 5 Stars

Are you LGBTQ+ friendly?

Yes. We believe support should be for anyone and everyone. You are welcome here.

Next Step

Tell me about your group.
I will tell you honestly if this fits.

15 to 20 minutes. Tell me who is in the room, what they already know, and what you are trying to shift. I will be straightforward about whether this is the right session for them - and what it would look like if it is.

Or reach Owen directly: owen@wearedelphi.co - WhatsApp +44 7915 107379
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