Headline Trainer Wins Business Leaders' Speaker Award
Headline trainer, Michael Dodd, has been named the New Speaker of the Year by the Academy for Chief Executives.
The Academy of Chief Executives is a Business Leaders’ learning group with branches around the UK and overseas.
Michael has worked with Headline for several years undertaking assignments in presentation and media skills across Britain. He began his broadcasting career as a political reporter in Australia and is best known to British audiences for his Newspaper reviews on Sky News which he’s been doing over the past twelve years. He was selected for the award from hundreds of speakers who address groups of the Academy each year in Britain and in its new overseas branches in India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta.
Michael declared that receiving the award is “better than winning the Ashes – partly because I get to keep the trophy”.
Michael has been speaking at events for the Academy on how to give great answers to tough questions – a topic based on his experience of asking probing questions in live broadcasts to politicians, business leaders and other public figures.
The Academy’s director responsible for its speaker selection process, Phil Jesson, said “the Chief Executives were impressed by the level of research that Michael did before his talks”. He said this helped the business leaders to be thoroughly tested out on the kinds of difficult questions they had to deal with on their feet in their daily work.