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The Speakers Club · Next intake January 2027
Turn speaking into a business growth tool
A five-part framework for turning speaking into influence, opportunities and revenue. Twelve months, a small group, in person in Southampton.
Applications are read personally
11
Monthly sessions
5
One-to-one sessions with Sarina
1
Intensive training day
>10
Small group, so everybody speaks
Being good at what you do is not the same as being known for it
So you say yes and spend the fortnight before it wishing you hadn't. Or you say no, and watch somebody with half your expertise take the platform instead.
The work goes to the person people have heard of, not the person who would do the better job. You know this. It is one of the more maddening facts of running a business.
People said kind things afterwards. Somebody took a card. Then the week moved on, no enquiries arrived, and you were never quite sure what you'd missed.
Last month's talk does nothing to make this month's easier, or more likely, or more profitable. There is no system underneath it, so nothing accumulates.
Learning to speak with impact is just one part of it
Delivery matters. How you stand, how you structure a talk, how you hold a room. It’s where we start, and it’s what Breakthrough Public Speaking has become known for.
It is also one part of five. Being clear on your message is a separate skill. So is getting visible to the right people, converting an audience into clients, and building momentum so that one engagement leads to the next.
Get all five working together, and speaking stops being something you do occasionally and becomes a way to grow your business.
The Breakthrough Speaker Growth Framework
A five-part framework for turning speaking into influence, opportunities and revenue. The Speakers Club takes you through it across twelve months.
message
Knowing what to say
Your audience, your credibility, and the one idea you want to be known for.
delivery
Making it land
Technique, storytelling and engagement, so the room stays with you throughout.
visibility
Being discovered by the right people
Content and marketing, getting booked, and the partnerships that put you in front of the right rooms.
conversion
Generating revenue from speaking
The audience journey, the offer you make, and how a talk becomes a conversation and then a client.
momentum
Turning every opportunity into more
Referrals, testimonials, and capturing the footage that wins you the next booking.
Build two things.
Use them everywhere.
The framework is what you learn. Your speaker assets are what you build with it, and they are what you still own long after the year ends.
Why members join
What a year in the room is for
Win more business
- Present so that prospects become clients
- Stand out from your competitors
- Know what to do with a room once you have it
- Charge with confidence, because you can articulate the value
Be seen as the expert
- Get invited rather than chasing invitations
- Build a reputation that travels without you
- Say the thing only you can say, clearly
- Be remembered long after the event is over
Get honest feedback
- A small group of business owners and leaders
- Straight answers from people on the same journey as you
- An audience to practise in front of every month
- Connections that outlast the twelve months
Join the waitlist for the next cohort, starting in February 2027
Included in your membership
Onboarding session
Eleven monthly club sessions, in person, two hours each
Quarterly one-to-one coaching sessions with Sarina, booked when you need them
The full Speaker Growth Framework, taught across the year
Peer feedback from a small group who take this as seriously as you do
Access to video course
fit
Who this is for
It is for you if:
- You are a business owner or leader, a senior professional inside an organisation, or a charity leader.
- You already have something worth saying and want more people to hear it.
- You want to grow your business through speaking.
- You can get to Southampton once a month.
It is not for you if:
- You are speaking for fun rather than for business growth. There are good clubs for that, and this is a different thing.
- You want to improve without doing anything between sessions.
- You want to get better at speaking without applying effort!
Speakers' Club
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Pay in full and get one month free
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A £350 deposit secures your place
Running from January - December each year
The group meets in Southampton with Sarina Mann on the third Monday of the month from 2.30 - 5pm.
1-to-1 coaching can be online or in-person.
Join the waitlist for the next cohort, starting in February 2027
What happens after twelve months?
Membership runs for a year at a time. At the end of it, you decide whether to carry on to the Advanced Club.
Members who join the Advanced Club move into a second year with a different focus. Where the first year builds your message and your delivery, the second puts them to work: being discovered by the right people, generating revenue from your speaking, and turning every opportunity into the next one.
Same club, same price, new ground.
Quarterly events
Club Members also have opportunities to speak at Breakthrough Public Speaking’s quarterly events, giving you experience, exposure, and footage you can use.
This is also a great opportunity to network and meet other business owners who use public speaking for business growth.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Then you are in good company, and you won’t be the first. The first few months cover messaging and delivery before anything else, and the group is small enough that nobody is thrown in at the deep end. Confidence is something we build here, not something you need before you arrive.
Good, and many members are. Confidence is the starting point here rather than the destination. The year is about turning speaking you are already decent at into something that generates visibility, bookings and work.
Message and delivery are where change shows up fastest, and those come first, so most members notice a difference in how they come across within the first couple of months. The commercial side, being booked and converting an audience, builds steadily across the year.
Small, deliberately. Everybody speaks, everybody gets feedback, and everybody knows everybody by the second or third session. It’s not a room you can sit at the back of.
They are yours to direct. Members typically use them to build a specific talk, prepare for an upcoming event, or go deeper on something raised in the group. They are booked when you need them rather than on a fixed schedule.
There is a ninety day notice period. In practice Sarina applies it with common sense, and members going through genuine difficulty have always been treated flexibly.
For this club, yes. Sessions are in person and that is a large part of what makes them work. If you are further afield, say so on your application, as an online group is something we are considering.
A short form about you, your business and what you want speaking to do for you. It is read personally rather than scored, and it exists so that the room is right for everybody in it.
Meet the trainer:
Sarina Mann
Richard Hiron, employment law solicitor
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