Imagine you are sitting the audience of the events hosted by Smart Coaching & Training Ltd Associates’ Jessica Breitenfeld and Alba Lucia Hincapié on February 15. What can you expect to see and learn ?
Speakers Luisa Montalvo, Darren Lacroix and Mark Brown are all Toastmasters’ World Champions of Public Speaking.
What is Toastmasters ?
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that builds confidence and teaches public speaking skills through a worldwide network of clubs that meet online and in person. Founded in 1924, the organization has approximately 270,000 members in more than 14,000 clubs in 150 countries.
Why are Jessica and Alba hosting these events? Jessica Breitenfeld , Alba Lucia Hincapié and SCT’s Clair Aghassipour and Caroline Dream are Europe’s Top female speaker, División champion of evaluation of speeches, European Champion, District Champion. They know how difficult it is to become a world champion, competing and winning through club, district, country, area and finally world competitions. And before that going through all the stages of the Toastmasters learning methodology before they are even allowed to compete. And all three presenters are prepared to show how they did it.
So you are going to learn some of the tricks or skills they learnt to get to the top.
All this sounds very academic, and in a way it is. But also remember these are public speaking champions and so they are also experts at entertaining and motivating the audience.
You can join Toastmasters just with a desire to learn to speak in public and the members will support you all the way to the top. You can do all the exams or just go along to polish your skills or just to support others. Many clubs are bi-lingual, so you can join a club which speaks in the language you are learning and become confident enough to present on stage in another language. Smart Coaching & Training’s founder David Rigby has done that with his Spanish.
Professional Speakers Association
The Professional Speakers Association is another way of developing yourself as speaker. In this organisation there is opportunity to develop your speaking business. There are many different national organisations, some of which belong to the worldwide organisation. Being a member of the PSA is a chance to mingle with and befriend people who make a good living public speaking.
Smart Coaching & Training associates Ian Gibbs and Caroline Dream created the Professional Speakers Association in Spain which now operates in both English and Spanish.
The Toastmasters methodology and membership of Professional Speakers Association does not guarantee you will earn a fortune as a professional speaker As PSA Spain says “Not Everyone wants to be a professional speaker but everyone needs to speak professionally “.
The Toastmasters methodology and membership of Professional Speakers Association does not guarantee you will earn a fortune as a professional speaker. As PSA Spain says “Not Everyone wants to be a professional speaker but everyone needs to speak professionally “.
Smart Coaching & Training offers coaching from our champion associates and also has delivered training in public speaking in several countries. Some, like Ricardo Cabete are full time professional speakers. Of course our associates have delivered speeches at conferences and events throughout the world . See https://www.smartcoachingtraining.com/speak .
Do you want to learn some of the tricks to get to the top of the speaking business ? Get your tickets for the events Tickets: For Luisa https://www.eventbrite.com/o/american-society-of-barcelona-1706033218 and for Darren https://forms.gle/kFRrVfkGFQM5M2Ua6
Smart Coaching & Training works with 27 associates, in four continents speaking 14 languages and raised and working in a wide range of cultures. See our associates here.
Written by David Rigby © 2025 Smart Coaching & Training Ltd