At Public Words we help people tell their stories.

We can help with all aspects of your communications. We can work with you to prepare for a significant event, like an important speech or a conference. We can help you refine your ideas, write books and articles, and navigate the publishing process. If you are a speaker, we’ll work with you to develop speeches that move audiences to action. We’ll help you master your delivery so that you are authentic and charismatic. We’ll work with you to market yourself to speaker bureaus, associations and organizations.

Speaker Coaching and Speech Writing

Great speakers do two things well: they let their own personality come through, and they have a wide range of emotional expressiveness. We’ll help you find the most eloquent expression of your voice, match it with razor-sharp content, and deliver it with authenticity and passion.

Audience-Centered Content

A successful speech takes your audience on a journey from ‘why’ to ‘how’. Audiences come in to the hall asking why—Why am I here? Why is this important to me? Why should I care about this speaker and this speech? By the end of your speech they will be asking how—How do I do what you are talking about? How do I get to work on this? How do I make this my own? That’s the goal of a good speech, and how you know when you have gotten your message across. We’ll help you design a speech that will prepare the audience to hear your message with full attention and appreciation.

Focused Rehearsal

Once the speech is written, you need to rehearse it several times at a minimum before you deliver it in front of a live audience. When you give a speech, your ‘two conversations’—the content and the non-verbal body language—have to be aligned. Your voice, your posture, your gestures and your motion are just as important as the words you say. We’ll help you understand how to achieve that alignment, and through filming and feedback, show you where you are strong and where you need to improve.

Message Development and Branding

Many individuals and small businesses put off updating their websites and publicity materials and settle for do-it-yourself design that does little to reflect the quality of their people, products or services.

If you want to be perceived as professional, credible and someone who can be trusted then you need to take control of everything that you put out to the world. Whether you are an entrepreneur with a brilliant idea, a speaker with an inspiring story to tell, or a business executive bursting with the next best-selling book, we’ll help you develop a professional brand identity — and you won’t have to break the bank to do it.

PR and Marketing

In this information-saturated, attention-starved era you only get one chance at someone’s time. Whether you want help writing and placing articles in print media and newspapers, or increasing your online presence and followers, or connecting with bureaus, agents, and publicists — we can help you present yourself to the world. We’ll become part of your communications team and ensure that you get the platform you need to tell your story.

Nice things people have said about us

“We finished the manuscript for my book week before last, and sent it off. This is a major milestone and I could not have done this without Nick. He is so much more that a talented and prolific writer—he is a sharp and critical thinker—he's brillant at figuring out how to work with people and enable them to do their best work— and when he commits to you, he does what it takes (and in my case, that was a lot) to reach a very high bar of success. Nick has been has been a wonderful partner to me in this work, and we stand at the beginning of a very excitng next chapter.”

“You really outdid yourself! We are all extremely happy with the results. Thanks so much.”

“Over the past two weeks I have given my new speech three times and the response has been just phenomenal! People are completely engaged and they are taking notes at exactly the point you said they would. Thank you so much for your coaching, strategy, and feedback. You have helped me present a much more organized, polished, and compelling speech. The logical structure of my speech coupled with repetitive rehearsals has given me more confidence and eloquence than I’ve ever had. AND… for the first time since I’ve known what PowerPoint was, I gave my speeches without PowerPoint! It was truly wonderful not to have to concern myself with slides, remotes, transitions, and other irrelevant details. I was truly able to focus on my audience.”

“I just wanted to say thank you for all the help you gave me. You were great to work with and made a huge difference in my, so to speak, ‘debut’.”

“The presentation was excellent. The participants were very impressed with the (accompanying) web site. We heard many comments about how professional it looked and how the content was meaningful and accessible. Thank you for being there for us at every step and for delivering quality exactly when we needed it.”

“It looks awesome! Thanks so much for all your hard work, I’m actually proud to have this as my site rather than trying to hide it. Well done!”

“Hi Nick, I’m writing to say thanks for the referral to Tim Sanders. Tim brought the house down. He opened by defining the goal for his speech at the only level you’d find acceptable… the best book ever written on public speaking is Working the Room by Nick Morgan.”

“Thanks for the call today—I found the dialogue intriguing—sort of like going to therapy. The conversation was part exhilarating, part exhausting and made my brain stretch… so thank you. I’m looking forward to more time together.”

People We’ve Worked With