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Find yourself stumped, doubtful and nervous when asked to deliver a high-stakes business presentation? Having trouble communicating and motivating the team you have just been assigned to lead? Or simply looking for a refreshing take on effective communication skills and networking confidence skills?
At Public Speaking Academy, we recognise the modern struggle that adults and working professionals face in public speaking, business presentations & communications – indispensable skills in the modern workplace. We believe in lifelong learning and continuous skills upgrading, especially in ensuring that you are not left behind in your fast-paced workplace. True to this, the Public Speaking Academy has designed Singapore's first World Champion public speaking course for adults, tailored to meet the contemporary workplace demands. This public speaking training program is designed by our Training team, as led by Darren Tay and registered with the Ministry of Education.
Public Speaking Academy Presents - the World Champion Certification Programme!
(Public Speaking Academy's signature presentation course for adults since 2016)
The World Champion Certification Programme is a public speaking course for adults in Singapore designed for working professionals by our first Singaporean World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren Tay, Founder, Managing Director and Master Trainer at the Public Speaking Academy. Tailored for adults and working professionals, the World Champion Certification Program will guide you through an introduction, exploration, and enhancement of public speaking skills and techniques through regular, group training sessions.
These consistent, week-in-week-out, engaging and holistic public speaking training classes will help you with:
Our Qualified team of public speaking experts – our World Champion team of trainers are not recruited through job portals. Our qualified trainers are competitive public speakers and/or presentation trainers prior and are handpicked by our founder Darren Tay himself. They are well-versed at our training syllabus and pedagogy, and have shadowed Darren adequately in order to be ready to helm our classes. They are also ACTA-trained and registered with MOE.
Confront your insecurities, uncertainties, or fear of public speaking as a beginner in various communication settings, and change your relationship with business presentation anxieties.
Develop competence in public speaking/ communicating effectively before an audience, based on a given context (e.g., interview, speech, presentation).
Design a speech or presentation based on a given framework, scaffold, and/or context (e.g., story-telling, sales pitch).
Display an understanding of body language/non-verbal communication techniques while public speaking to any audience, based on a given context.
Evaluate your presentation competency levels independently, based on speech delivery (e.g., body language), speech content (e.g., crafting content), and speech mindset (e.g., stage fright management).
World Champion Certification Program (our signature Public Speaking Course for Adults) is perfect for both beginners having their first foray into the public speaking skills training journey and advanced speakers looking to continue their communication and presentation skills development.
This training program is conducted as weekly, regular group training classes, with greater emphasis on an encouraging and engaging learning environment. Unlike other one-way lecture-styled courses, our competent and passionate training team delivers a hands-on approach for optimal learning of public speaking skills and presentation techniques – we believe that learning is best achieved through a maximising combination of theory and practice. We provide our students with the printed handouts and video recordings of their practice speech deliveries, maximising their learning by providing them with an opportunity to evaluate their performance in class and identify key areas of improvement moving forward.
We keep our class sizes small (maximum 12 students) to ensure that each learner receives dedicated focus and attention to their learning and development from our trainers. You will get the opportunity to review your learning each class in front of a sufficiently challenging group size.
We provide our learners with a sufficiently safe, but still constructive, challenging and conducive, training environment for you to learn, train and grow as individuals and as a group. Our public speaking classes are structured based on our 50 – 50 Rule:

For every class, 50% of the class time is focused on an open and engaging sharing of public speaking skills and techniques, peppered with our professional trainers' personal experiences and engagement activities & tools.
For every class, 50% of the class time is dedicated to providing our students with the safe and constructive space to practice, practice and practice their craft (ample opportunities to apply the skills taught)! They receive professional, detailed, and dedicated evaluation every training class.
Our 50 – 50 Rule ensures that all our learners get a valuable opportunity to test their learning in a supportive environment, receive immediate and relevant feedback, and clarify their doubts in their public speaking learning journey. This prepares our learners to apply the experience to other speaking opportunities outside!
Sebastien Debarge
Working professional (Pharmaceutical industry) • Cohort 2019, WCCP Adult Lvl 1
Nigel Eu
Fresh Graduate • Cohort 2019, WCCP Adult Lvl 1
Below are some actual, verbatim & verifiable Google reviews/ client testimonials extracted from our Google Business page (available here)
Both the 12 weeks and 2 days programs were fantastic for beginners like myself. Even for people who are experienced with public speaking, the courses offer the opportunity to improve on various techniques. Both offers plenty of speaking opportunities in front of a small (10-15) class. Speeches would be recorded on your own camera phone with feedbacks from the trainers. This allows me to view my own performance on camera and identify where I need to improve.
The learning environment was friendly and encouraging. Darren Tay and Zulhafni were top notch speakers by themselves. They were genuine, friendly, respectful and knowledgeable. For those who are looking for a public speaking course for self improvement, I would highly recommend the Public Speaking Academy.
I attended the WCCP to improve my public speaking skills after a recent promotion. The course is not only full of useful tips and skills, but also gave ample practice time to hone what we learnt. I can certainly feel my confidence in public speaking has increased by leaps and bounds, and would recommend this course for those seeking to improve their public speaking skills.
It was the most enjoyable course I have attended. I recommend the WCCP course to anyone interested in improving their public speaking or communication skills.
In addition to covering a range of speaking situations with practical techniques that can be easily applied, the real gem is the opportunity to practice the techniques in a very safe environment and to learn from each other.
I look forward to attending each lesson to practice and improve my communication skills.
I attended the 12-week (once a week) WCCP program at Hougang Branch. It is good program and I recommend anyone who wants to improve communications skill to attend it. I am glad that I went for it and the course definitely benefitted me. The trainer, Mr Zul, taught us various techniques and provided us with conducive environment to practice and present in front of fellow learners. He also gave us very specific feedback after each of our speaking session, which is really helpful. I have gained more confidence, my standing posture is more steady, and way of presentation is calmer now.
The course material are well structured and highly relevant to the communication needs of working professionals. Mugan, the trainer, was effective in addressing the questions of students and encouraged questions from students to allow deep learning. I have also seen my classmates transformed from a beginner into confident speakers over just the short 12 weeks.
Really enjoyed the lessons and improved my communication skills over the span of the course.
I attended the World Champion Certification Programme for 12 weeks here at Public Speaking Academy. I took the course at the Bukit Timah branch and was taught by Mr. Imran Tahir.
Mr. Imran continuously supports my journey even outside the class. I enjoyed his lessons, and his classes helped me build confidence and improve my communication skills. There are some sessions where I enjoyed learning from Mr. Zulhafni as well. The instructors here are very professional and experienced. Highly recommended!
Public Speaking Academy changed my approach to public speaking. Today, with continual practicing, I feel much confident in presenting to an audience than I was before Public Speaking Academy. The program (12 weeks, 2 hours for each session per week) might sound long, but it is worth investing your personal time.
The reason for my signup was to improve my presentation skills. Each week, we get to present in front of the class to apply the tools that we learn. These tools enable my fellow classmates and I, to elevate our levels of presentations that we were not able to previously.
Just completed the twelve weeks training in Oct 2021. Though the training didn't turn me into an eloquent speaker overnight, but the techniques, mind and skills set taught, are much-needed boost, to believe in myself, that helps to exude my confidence to overcome the fear of public speaking.
After attending first few lessons, with an impromptu presentation each week, noticed all of us possess a certain level of public speaking abilities. Pretty sure going to miss the lively and engaging class activity we had each week.
Really glad I plucked up my courage to attend the public speaking class with PSA. Classes are well structured, concepts are easy to grasp and apply. The confidence I gained was noticeable at work.
I was really glad when I attended this course as it gave me a safe space to try public speaking over 12 weeks. It gave me exposure to try a range of communication techniques. This spilled over to my daily life and at work where I learned to communicate better.
I attended the course by Mr Zulhafni and found the course to be fun and engaging. Zul provides customised feedback to each individual and is very encouraging in class.
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Our Learning Areas and Scope – World Champion Certification Programme (weekly public speaking classes for adults)
The World Champion Certification Programme is designed as a structured and guided learning process to tailor to students from different public speaking background or with nuanced learning objectives. The programme covers general communication skills ranging from body language, vocal variety to advanced public speaking skills/ techniques involving specific speech genres and advanced linguistic skills.
$688
Full programme cost (9 lessons)
*no registration fee, no material fee, no GST*
(communication techniques to build the foundation you need to create a strong stage impression & confident gloss)
Body Language Foundation
Vocal Quality, Variety & Clarity + Linguistic skills
(speech structures for common communication settings/themes)
Story-Crafting & Audience Engagement
Informative/Technical Presentations
Persuasive Presentations
Presenting with Visual Aids
(speech techniques for fluid communication settings/themes)
Impromptu Speech
Interview Skills (Pitching)
Edge-of-the-seat Blueprint
(based on feedback from Public Speaking Academy's past adult learners who have gone through this public speaking skills training program in Singapore):

If you would like to request for a customised course timing for your group of friends or colleagues (at Public Speaking Academy's premises or at your own preferred premises in Singapore), please contact us and indicate your request in the contact form below. We will contact you shortly. Please be informed that we have a minimum class size for a customised course timing.
If you are a parent and are also looking for public speaking courses to enrich your kids' skill-sets, you may check out our public speaking courses for kids.
public speaking courses for kids here.

