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Tim Pollard is the founder and president of Oratium.
Presentations need to be ABOUT something. Throughout a highly successful 12 year consulting career, Tim specialized in converting complex business research into presentations for senior Marketing, Sales, and Communications executives from Fortune 500 corporations, becoming a highly sought-after speaker in the process.
Throughout the course of delivering approximately 2000 presentations to boards, national conferences and executive committees, Tim never stopped seeking to understand and capture the underlying ‘science’ of extraordinary speaking. (In the process, becoming responsible for recruiting and coaching a speaking team of over 70 individuals)
The result of this journey has been the development of unique tools and concepts, and a remarkable ability to teach and coach others in the learnable processes of exceptional public speaking.
Tim has taught these principles for over a decade in a variety of settings and always with great effect.
Testimonials and Bio - A client perspective
“Tim developed an entire generation of customer-facing speakers in our firm, myself included. Beyond his own remarkable speaking abilities, his ability to coach others is simply extraordinary. It also helps that he is genuinely smart enough to grasp complex subject matter at a level that lets him guide speakers to focus on what is truly important. His work created extraordinary value for the staff involved, for the clients they served, and the firm as a whole.””
- Tom Monahan, CEO, The Corporate Executive Board
“Tim is not only the best public speaker I’ve ever seen, but his ability to reduce public speaking to a set of repeatable processes and principles that others can follow – even those with less ‘talent’- was something I never believed was possible.”
- Worldwide Head of Sales. Fortune 500 Media Company
"Oratium’s offering is completely unique in its field. I’ve been down the “failed actor” route in this area, and all it taught me was that failed actors fail for a reason. There is truly no comparison, and the difference is: this works.”
- Divisional President, Fortune 100 Industrial Company
“Tim and I have collaborated on many complex presentations over many years. In my view he stands completely alone both in his ability to convert a body of complex research into a coherent, audience-centric argument AND in his ability to teach those skills to others. I’m completely confident in saying that Tim will make any speaker better, and especially those who live in the world of complex messaging.”
- Mike Klein, CEO, The Latinum Network
“My chief feedback (and only regret) after the Oratium coaching was that I did not have an upcoming presentation in which to put these principles into practice."
- President, Leading US not-for-profit.
“I’d applied for a high-level public speaking position, but was rejected by the final interview panel. Tim was the only dissenter on that panel, and against the advice of more than a few his senior colleagues, chose to hire me anyway. He was convinced I had great potential, but also that I didn’t yet understand how to tap into that potential. He was right.
Tim personally coached me over the next three years, and as a result I’ve now become one of the premier speakers in our firm, making hundreds of presentations a year to senior business audiences. I think it’s fair to say that to this day, the panelists who rejected me remain extremely surprised at the way I flourished as a speaker.”
- Jonathan Dietrich, Senior Director, Corporate Executive board