Leadership Communications
Martha Weeks is a leadership communications coach and facilitator who helps people tell their stories.
Whether you have an upcoming high-stakes presentation or want to improve your public speaking, Martha can help you refine your messages, body language, and vocal presence. Work with Martha to develop powerful, signature stories and deliver them with confidence. Make your talks, interviews, and launches more meaningful and memorable.
What's your story?
Great stories. Engaging presentations.
At the heart of every great presentation is a good story – one that evokes emotion, captures imagination, and compels listeners to action. Speakers who can inspire others with stories delivered with confidence, presence, and authenticity have an advantage leading teams and advancing business and career goals.
At the core are your stories—inspirational, persuasive, technical, thoughtful, or funny. Your style makes you uniquely effective.
Martha Weeks offers professional development workshops focused on storytelling with confidence. These interactive sessions give participants practical, relevant tools they can use to give meaningful talks and to be more effective in their everyday communications.
“Fantastic facilitator, engaging speaker, master of the 6 word story, generous coach...just a few words that describe the magic of Martha Weeks.
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Workshops + Teaching
Leadership Communications: Speaking and Writing Workshops
Can you present yourself and your ideas effectively so people understand your messages, remember them and are inspired to action?
In Martha's workshops you will learn:
the process for crafting powerful presentations based on the essential principals of storytelling.
executive presence and how a sense of authority and command of subject matter is expressed by each participant in their own, individual way.
techniques to project self-assurance through body language and psychology-based “confidence hacks” as well as tips and tricks to gain confidence in high-stress, high-stakes situations.
how to network to enhance one’s career
guidelines for clear, concise writing for all business communications – including presentation visuals, email messages and memos.
“That was the best investment of three hours I’ve had in a long time. Martha brings a wonderful structure, clarity and joy to the topics.
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Coaching
Whether you have an upcoming talk or want to improve your communication skills, Martha can create a one-on-one coaching program to address your unique situation.
About
martha weeks
Since 1993, Martha Weeks has provided leadership communications coaching to Fortune 100 organizations including Google, HP, Microsoft, Volkswagen America, Uber, Zynga, and Worthington Industries, as well as numerous medical centers and start-up companies.
Through her tailored and dynamic workshops, Martha gives executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and engineers the tools and confidence to create and deliver persuasive presentations for conferences, investors, and internal meetings. She has coached TEDx talks and served as a speechwriter and coach for hundreds of business and technical presentations.
Martha Weeks is a coach and guest lecturer at the Stanford Business School and the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT). At Stanford, she coaches MBA students on investor pitches in an entrepreneurship class. At UT, Martha is a lecturer and coach in the Graduate Executive Education group and the Professional MBA program.
Martha started her career at Hewlett-Packard. She worked as a sales development engineer, channel manager, and product manager at HP offices in California, Germany, and France. After leaving HP, she sold network management software and consulted for technology companies including Oracle, Intuit, and Symantec.
Martha earned an MBA from the University of California-Berkeley and a BA in mathematics with a concentration in computer science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She serves on the advisory board of UT’s College of Nursing.
“You get an opportunity to see a handful of really great communicators in your life, and Martha is definitely one of them.”
