Be calm, confident, and credible^®

Peter typically works with:

• Executives and senior leaders preparing for high-stakes moments
• Financial advisors ready to turn prospect seminars and COI meetings into client trust
• Corporate teams building leadership and sales communication skills
• Professional speakers scaling their impact and commanding higher fees

Whether you're stepping into a boardroom, walking onto a keynote stage, or building a team-wide communication standard, there's a path built for you.

Three things set your experience apart:

• The AMP'D Framework™ — a complete, ordered system for building any talk, backed by The Captivating Public Speaker, which has earned six international book awards and carries a foreword by Dr. Ivan Misner, founder of BNI.
• Client range — from CVS Health, Anheuser-Busch, and Blount Fine Foods to individual executives, financial advisors, and sought after speakers.
• Outcome standard — you don't just get better. You get calm, confident, and credible every time you speak.

AMP'D stands for Audience, Message, Presentation, and Delivery — the four pillars of every effective talk, in order, every time. It's the proprietary methodology Peter developed over two decades of coaching, and it's also the system laid out in full in his award-winning book, The Captivating Public Speaker. Every coaching engagement is built around AMP'D, so you leave with a repeatable system, not just situational fixes.

Peter is based in Providence, RI, and works with clients across the U.S. and internationally. Over the past two decades, he's presented to and trained more than 120,000 professionals in 50+ countries and delivered coaching and keynotes in all 48 contiguous states. Whether you're in Boston, New York, San Francisco, or somewhere in between, distance isn't a limitation.

Both. One-to-one coaching happens in whichever format works best — virtual for clients outside the region or with tight travel schedules, in-person for Northeast clients within driving distance of Providence and for anyone who prefers to work face-to-face. Keynotes, corporate team training, and executive intensives are typically delivered in-person, wherever you need Peter in the room. Every format uses the same AMP'D Framework and delivers the same outcomes.

A public speaking class teaches general skills to a group. A public speaking coach builds the process entirely around you — your goals, your audience, your specific high-stakes moments. In a class, you're one of many. In coaching, every session moves your actual work forward: your next keynote, your next board presentation, your next prospect meeting. If you already know the fundamentals but want to sound like a leader when it matters most, coaching gets you there faster than any class can.

You don't need to, but you'll get more out of both if you do. The Captivating Public Speaker is the AMP'D Framework in full, so reading it gives you the complete system before you start working together. Clients who read it first come to sessions with the vocabulary and mental model already in place, which means sessions focus on applying the framework to your specific situations rather than teaching the fundamentals. That said, plenty of clients start with coaching and use the book as an ongoing reference. Either way works.