Executive presence coaching · Media and presentation training · Strategic media advice
Our approach
At Jawsmith, we marry your career and business goals to your communications landscape to give you up-to-date, strategic advice. Through bespoke coaching and training workshops, or by embedding ourselves in your communications team, we help you harness the power of influential communications.
In a media interview, on the podium or in the hot seat, it is all about the messages and how you back them up. Have confidence in what you say, then learn to deliver it well.
A picture speaks a thousand words, so we will help you craft word pictures and compelling stories to influence your audiences.
We always work hand in hand with your in-house teams to ensure we put your goals at the heart of our advice.
Learn how to be on the front foot in broadcast, print and online interviews. Understand how to make the most of a friendly encounter whilst minimising the risks of a hostile one, or even how to turn them to your advantage.
Find out moreOne-to-one coaching in a supportive and stretching environment to help you build authority and influence both within and outside of your organisation. All great leaders and communicators have learnt those skills and you can too.
Find out moreUnderstand what it takes to demonstrate to policy makers that you are the expert and you have it covered. Select Committees are a marathon and not a sprint, with different rules of engagement to the average Q&A. We demystify the process and get your organisation committee ready.
Find out moreIs your organisation crisis ready? Are you confident your executives understand the discipline of crisis communications? From crisis communication training to full blown simulation exercises, we can make sure your organisation can sail any choppy waters ahead.
Find out moreMore people fear public speaking than death, so the saying goes. We help you harness your fears to embrace the podium experience. We start by looking at what you say, and then how you can deliver your message with clarity and confidence.
Find out moreBeing comfortable with communicating online is integral to career progression. Learn how to impress and influence people straight from your laptop.
Find out moreEmbed our advice into your communication teams for key announcements or in a crisis. Jawsmith understands how to build and convey messages that work for your organisation and your audiences.
Find out moreOur experience
Jawsmith builds on decades of communication experience, bringing together media experience with public relations nous. We have worked with cabinet ministers, celebrities and senior executives at large blue chip corporations as well as not for profits, to shape their communications to meet their strategic goals.
Twenty years of broadcast journalism sit behind every session. That is the difference between being taught what a journalist wants and being taught by someone who has been one.
Meet Hilary
Hilary is a broadcaster and strategic communications expert. She set up Jawsmith communication consultancy in 2006 and coaches organisations and individuals in media and presenting skills, executive presence and strategic media advice.
Hilary also devised and hosts the weekly podcast Experience, all about the human behaviours driving the news headlines. Hilary brings the communications insight whilst her co-host, psychologist Professor Peter Kinderman, explains why people behave the way that they do.
The podcast
Every Tuesday, Hilary and clinical psychologist Professor Peter Kinderman take one story out of the news and work out the human behaviour underneath it. She brings the communications lens, he brings the clinical one, and they do not always agree.
Hilary is the consummate professional trainer and was very good at managing the discussion so it didn’t turn into intellectual waffle.
Excellent. I had absolute confidence that she knew, understood, and could apply expertise in this field.
A really thought-provoking day and one that I feel has challenged the way we have traditionally approached our work. Many thanks.
Let us help you, your teams and your executives communicate more effectively. Get in touch to find out more about us and our approach.