Speak Better. Think Faster. Command the Room.
Strong communication is more than sounding confident. It requires knowing what you want to say, understanding how an audience will receive it, and being able to adjust when the room refuses to follow the script.
Tony Torres provides practical coaching and team workshops built around public speaking, performance, storytelling, media preparation, leadership communication, and applied improvisation.
These are not motivational lectures or generic confidence exercises. Every session is designed to improve how you communicate, respond, collaborate, and perform when the outcome matters.
Public Speaking and Presentation Coaching
A strong presentation needs more than good information. It needs structure, delivery, timing, audience awareness, and a speaker who knows how to control the room.
Public speaking coaching can help you prepare for:
- Keynotes and conference presentations
- Business and sales presentations
- Panels and roundtable discussions
- Classroom and academic presentations
- Public appearances
- Pitches and proposals
- Awards, introductions, and ceremonial speeches
- High-pressure question-and-answer sessions
Coaching may include speech structure, message development, pacing, vocal delivery, physical presence, storytelling, rehearsal, audience engagement, and recorded performance review.
Whether you are preparing for one important appearance or developing your skills over time, the work is built around your actual goals, audience, and speaking style.
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Interview, Media, and On-Camera Preparation
Interviews rarely go exactly as planned. The person asking the questions may misunderstand your work, focus on the wrong subject, challenge your position, or push you into an answer you never intended to give.
Media preparation helps you remain clear, credible, and composed without sounding over-rehearsed.
Preparation may include:
- Developing clear talking points
- Answering predictable and difficult questions
- Staying on message without repeating canned answers
- Improving on-camera presence
- Removing distracting verbal and physical habits
- Handling interruptions and follow-up questions
- Preparing for hostile or adversarial interviews
- Recorded mock interviews with playback and analysis
This service is available for executives, entrepreneurs, authors, artists, athletes, educators, public figures, and anyone preparing to speak on behalf of themselves or an organization.
Leadership Communication Coaching
Leadership communication is not about adopting a deeper voice or memorizing executive vocabulary. It is about communicating decisions clearly, handling pressure, giving useful direction, and speaking with enough authority that people understand what happens next.
Leadership communication coaching may focus on:
- Leading meetings
- Presenting decisions and recommendations
- Delivering difficult information
- Giving feedback
- Communicating during conflict
- Handling unexpected questions
- Motivating teams without relying on empty slogans
- Representing an organization publicly
- Developing a clear and credible leadership presence
This service focuses specifically on communication performance. It is not general life coaching, therapy, or organizational consulting.
Individual Coaching Rates
90-Minute Speaking Diagnostic — $500
A focused evaluation of your current speaking and presentation skills.
Includes:
- One 90-minute private session
- Review of a speech, presentation, or recorded performance
- Identification of strengths and recurring problems
- Direct coaching and practical exercises
- Written recommendations and next steps
This is the recommended starting point for new coaching clients.
Private Coaching
| Coaching Option | Rate |
|---|---|
| Single 60-Minute Coaching Session | $400 |
| Four-Session Coaching Package | $1,500 |
| Eight-Session Coaching Package | $2,800 |
| Complete Speaker Development Program | Starting at $3,500 |
Coaching packages can be used for public speaking, presentation development, leadership communication, interview preparation, or ongoing performance improvement.
Sessions are available remotely. In-person coaching may be available in the Los Angeles area.
High-Stakes Preparation
| Intensive | Rate |
|---|---|
| High-Stakes Presentation Intensive | $1,500 |
| Interview and Media Preparation Intensive | $1,750 |
| Executive Presentation Intensive | Starting at $2,500 |
High-Stakes Presentation Intensive
Designed for a specific keynote, pitch, presentation, panel, or public appearance.
May include:
- Advance review of the speech, presentation, or slide deck
- Message and structure development
- Full rehearsal
- Delivery coaching
- Written notes and final recommendations
- Limited follow-up before the appearance
Interview and Media Preparation Intensive
Designed for an upcoming television, video, podcast, print, press, or documentary interview.
May include:
- Message development
- Anticipated question preparation
- Difficult-question preparation
- Recorded mock interview
- Playback and performance analysis
- Revised talking points
- Follow-up rehearsal
Corporate and Employer-Sponsored Coaching
Employer-sponsored coaching is designed for professionals whose communication performance directly affects a team, department, client relationship, presentation, or public appearance.
| Corporate Coaching Service | Starting Rate |
|---|---|
| Corporate-Sponsored Individual Session | $600 |
| Six-Session Communication Program | $3,500 |
| Eight-Session Leadership Communication Program | $4,500 |
| Executive Presentation Intensive | $2,500 |
| Small Leadership Cohort Program | $7,500 |
Corporate programs may include planning calls, customized exercises, progress goals, presentation review, and coordination with organizational leadership.
The content of private coaching conversations remains confidential unless the participant has authorized specific information to be shared.
Team Building Through Applied Improv
Better Teams Need More Than Trust Falls
Applied improv uses performance exercises to improve the skills teams rely on every day: listening, collaboration, adaptability, communication, decision-making, and responding when something unexpected happens.
The goal is not to turn employees into comedians. The goal is to make them more comfortable contributing ideas, responding under pressure, supporting one another, and recovering when a meeting, presentation, or project stops going according to plan.
Workshops can focus on:
- Active listening
- Adaptability
- Collaborative problem-solving
- Speaking confidently in groups
- Creative decision-making
- Reading the room
- Handling uncertainty
- Productive disagreement
- Supporting ideas without surrendering judgment
- Recovering from mistakes
- Communicating across departments
- Building stronger presentation skills
Every workshop is adjusted for the organization, group size, participant experience, and desired outcome.
Team Workshop Options
Think Faster
Applied Improv for Better Teams
A practical workshop focused on listening, adaptability, collaboration, and responding without overthinking every sentence.
Participants work through exercises that challenge them to stay present, build on useful ideas, communicate clearly, and adjust when conditions change.
Command the Room
Presentation and Communication Training
A team workshop for employees who lead meetings, give presentations, pitch ideas, train colleagues, or represent the organization.
The program focuses on message clarity, delivery, physical presence, audience engagement, and answering questions with confidence.
Yes, And Has Limits
Collaboration Without Performative Agreement
“Agree with everything” is not a collaboration strategy.
This workshop uses applied improv to teach teams how to develop ideas, contribute constructively, disagree productively, and avoid the passive consensus that turns meetings into an expensive form of group theater.
The Difficult Room
Communication Under Pressure
A workshop for teams that regularly face difficult audiences, challenging questions, tense meetings, customer conflict, public criticism, or high-stakes conversations.
Participants practice remaining clear, controlled, and responsive when the conversation becomes unpredictable.
Team Workshop Pricing
| Workshop Format | Starting Rate |
|---|---|
| 90-Minute Team Workshop | $3,500 |
| Two-Hour Customized Workshop | $4,500 |
| Half-Day Program | $6,500 |
| Full-Day Program | $10,000 |
| Multi-Session Team Development Program | $12,500 |
| Conference or Company-Wide Training | Custom Quote |
Standard workshop pricing covers groups of up to 20 participants.
Final pricing may vary based on:
- Number of participants
- Workshop length
- Program customization
- Additional facilitators
- Location and travel
- Materials and equipment
- Recording or distribution rights
- Multiple departments or sessions
Educational institutions and qualifying community organizations may request limited reduced-rate programming starting at $2,500.
Travel, lodging, venue, equipment, and other direct expenses are quoted separately when applicable.
Creative Performance Coaching
Creative professionals often need to perform outside the work itself. Musicians give interviews. Authors speak at events. Artists explain their work. Content creators appear on camera. Athletes represent teams, sponsors, and organizations.
Creative performance coaching is available for:
- Authors and speakers
- Musicians and performers
- Actors and comedians
- Content creators
- Artists and creative entrepreneurs
- Athletes preparing for interviews or appearances
- First-time public speakers
Sessions may focus on stage presence, interviews, storytelling, audience interaction, camera delivery, live appearances, or developing a stronger public persona.
How Coaching Works
1. Tell Me What You Are Preparing For
Complete the coaching request form with information about your goals, timeline, experience, and upcoming presentation, interview, workshop, or appearance.
2. Select the Right Format
You may be directed toward a diagnostic session, individual coaching package, intensive preparation program, or customized team workshop.
3. Work on the Actual Problem
Sessions focus on your real material, real audience, and real communication challenges. You will not spend weeks discussing confidence in the abstract while avoiding the presentation you actually need to deliver.
4. Rehearse, Review, and Improve
Coaching may include live rehearsal, recorded review, practical exercises, message development, direct feedback, and specific assignments between sessions.
Coaching, Workshops, & Public Speaking
These services are related, but they are not interchangeable.
Coaching develops an individual’s communication and performance skills.
Team workshops develop communication, collaboration, adaptability, and presentation skills across a group.
Public speaking engagements bring Tony Torres to an organization, school, conference, or event as a featured speaker.
Ready to Improve How You Communicate?
Whether you are preparing for a keynote, an interview, an important meeting, or a room full of employees who need to communicate like they have met one another before, the first step is identifying what needs to improve.
- Individual coaching begins at $400.
- Speaking diagnostics are $500.
- Media preparation intensives begin at $1,750.
- Team workshops begin at $3,500.
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