Podium Media & Communications Coaching

At Podium Coaching we work with people who need to make an impact – in speeches, presentations, or before the media.
 
We combine the transformative power of our trade-marked Talkitout™ technique with storytelling to upgrade speakers’ abilities to engage and hold audiences.
 
And because we have an insider’s perspective on journalism from working with some of the best broadcasting companies in the world, we provide media training you won’t get anywhere else.
 
Podium Coaching is a partnership between husband-and-wife team Halina St James and Neil Everton. Halina created Talkitout to help speakers inject power, passion and authenticity into speeches and presentations.
 
She is a former network television reporter and producer whose assignments included the first Gulf War, the Romanian Revolution and the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Barcelona and Lillehammer.
 
Neil Everton brings a lifetime’s international experience with some of the top news organizations in the world to his media skills workshops. His workshops show how to create compelling media messages, how to anticipate trouble and deal confidently with it, how to shape interviews and how to deal with confrontation.
 
His career in journalism got him into a few scrapes, and a lot of countries. The biggest scrape was in Afghanistan. He and his BBC team were arrested at gunpoint by Russian soldiers and held on suspicion of spying. Afghanistan was one of 29 countries Neil worked in during a stint as senior foreign news producer for BBC TV News.
 
Halina and Neil moved to Tantallon, Nova Scotia, in 1994 from London, England. Since then Nova Scotia has been home base for a business that has taken them around the world.