WPNT spent a week in Brussels providing advanced presentation skills training to a multinational client engaged in outreach to opinion leaders across Europe. Executives traveled from Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Nigeria, Morocco, Russia and the United Kingdom to participate in the sessions.

In an effort to strengthen its communications with key stakeholders such as corporate travel planners, tour operators, travel partners, and local governments, almost two dozen sales and marketing professionals of this global airline took part in two days of Executive Presentation Training. The WPNT programs were conducted in Texas.

How to succeed in pressured discourse settings with senior leadership was the focus of a specialized Executive Presentation Skills program conducted for this international financial firm. The program was conducted in San Francisco and included both group and private sessions for half a dozen partners and aspiring partners.

WPNT worked one-on-one with the chief financial officer and general counsel for a U.S. affiliate of a large multinational industrial client. During the private speech coaching workshops, each participant learned skills to prepare for high-profile speaking events.

A crisis involving a simulated pipeline leak and fire was the basis for crisis communication training for officials from a major pipeline company. The program in Houston included a tabletop scenario with simulated inquiries from news media, local officials and other external stakeholders.

Professionals from this telecommunications company's communications, legal, risk management and quality teams gathered for an Issues Management & Crisis Communications training program designed and conducted by WPNT. The dozen individuals had to respond to two, customized scenarios focusing on pre-empting difficult news. The program was conducted outside of Chicago.

Following two days of intensive Executive Presentation Skills Training and a formal run through coached by WPNT, international teams of this technology company presented their findings to internal sponsors and leadership. It's part of a multi-year company initiative to unearth potential business opportunities while becoming more market facing and customer centric. In addition to showcasing their market research and analysis in the hour-long presentations, the teams were challenged to communicate their findings in innovative ways including the use of props, visuals and demonstrations.

To extend its brand on leading business cable and broadcast programs, editors for a leading financial website underwent a WPNT Executive Media Training for the Content Expert program outside West Palm Beach, Florida. A WPNT Press Corps member and current ABC News producer assisted with the program.

In preparation for an international conference with a largely English second language audience and for internal management presentations, almost a dozen engineers participated in a WPNT Executive Presentations Skills Program conducted over two days in Chicago. A number of the presentations were in preparation for a customer conference in Malaysia, focusing on unique processing technologies developed by the company.p>

In August, WPNT provided a specialized media training program for a newly named environmental laureate who is the president and CEO of an environmental technology start-up company. The training in Dallas, included the organization's leadership team.

A publicly traded, leading global technology company with manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries hired WPNT to provide presentation skills training to its top finance executives.

Also in this quarter, WPNT served a multinational specialty materials company as it prepared to host a strategic planning conference for 250 members of its global leadership team. We provided private speech coaching sessions for senior executives and on-camera training for conference exhibitors.

WPNT was selected to provide a series of executive media training sessions for a leading insurance company. The programs were aimed at strengthening its brand and helping the company position itself as a thought leader through trade and general consumer media interviews.

WPNT worked one-on-one with the president of a prominent gas and power company, assisting him in preparing for an in-house webcast. The video coaching workshop supported the leader's efforts to effectively highlight the year's success and his vision for the future.

Private, Executive Communications Coaching sessions with a vice president of this chemical company have begun with an emphasis on internal and senior leadership audiences. The sessions are being conducted at the company's Midwest headquarters.