Find Your Voice - How To Truly Be Heard!
Category: Personal Development | Date: 30/10/2025 12:00 | Duration: 100mins | Tag: CPDFUK25D3S2 | Type: Webinar | Speaker: Nick Elston | Course level: Intermediate
This course is part of CPD Fest UK 2025
Course Details
From client meetings to team briefings and public presentations, communication is at the heart of success in practice. This session is for accountants and bookkeepers who want to elevate their confidence in public speaking, presenting and sharing their message with clarity and authenticity — whether that’s in a boardroom, online, or on stage. Learn how to overcome the fear of speaking and start owning your voice like never before.
In this session Nick Elston will cover the following topics:
- How to overcome the fear of public speaking and speak with genuine confidence
- Building a strong personal presence — whether speaking 1:1, in meetings or to large audiences
- Storytelling as a powerful tool in accounting and finance – connecting through the numbers
- Practical tips to improve presentations, pitches and everyday communication
- How to handle nerves, tough questions and high-stakes speaking situations with calm and clarity
By attending this session, you will learn how to present with confidence, communicate with impact, and speak with purpose — whether to clients, colleagues or wider audiences. You’ll leave with tools and strategies to elevate your voice, boost trust, and make your message land.
This session will be of most interest to accountants, bookkeepers, finance professionals and practice owners who want to improve their public speaking, communication, and presentation skills — at events, online or in everyday business settings.
Course level: Intermediate
CPD Course Speaker
Forging People Ltd
Nick Elston
Nick Elston is one of the highest-profile and leading Inspirational Speakers on the Lived Experience of Mental Health.
In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.
Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.
Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.
In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.
Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.
Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.