About Louise
Louise Third MBE is a communications consultant and coach. She ran her own PR agency Integra Communications supporting national public and private sector clients until 2018. Now she provides clients with strategic PR advice, crisis management and agency/client mediation. Her coaching covers public speaking and speechwriting – skills she honed and continues to use in a business career spanning over 30 years.
Louise is a Member of the PRCA, a member of the UK Speechwriters’ Guild, a Fellow of the RSA, and was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to enterprise and charity.
Who’s the Coach?
Louise Third MBE MPRCA is a member of the UK Guild of Speechwriters. She works with individuals and teams, from all sectors and professions, who need to become effective and memorable presenters. She is frequently engaged by blue-chip companies to work with senior management teams on important bid and contract presentations, and she helps to produce conference speeches for company presidents, chairmen and CEOs.
Louise is an accomplished speaker and businesswoman who has worked in business development, project consultancy and public relations since 1985. Her firm, Integra Communications, handles PR for a number of national public and private bodies. She has radio and TV appearance experience and helped to establish Nottingham Speakers’ Corner in 2007. Louise was appointed a Trustee of the Speakers’ Corner Trust in 2011 and was made an MBE in 2016.
Training Theory
‘None of my training and coaching is based on theory! My passion is to share with others what I have learnt and what I know works. My presentation skills programme reflects a personal journey I have taken since I was five years old and gave my first public address. It also reflects a collaboration with a former TV actress which injected vocal exercises and movement techniques to help build speaker gravitas. Having written speeches for many too senior – and sensible – for PowerPoint slides, I’m keen to teach others faced with the same challenge to relish the opportunity to word-smith someone else’s thoughts.
My coaching is interactive, practical and highly energetic. Above all, I believe learning should be fun, memorable and should excite the desire to know more.’
Specialisms
Louise specialises in coaching the spoken and written word.
Louise’s Courses
- Speaker Masterclass
- Speechwriting made Simple