Belinda Huckle, Managing Director and Co-Founder, SecondNature® InternationalBelinda Huckle, Managing Director and Co-Founder
There’s no doubt that the art of skillful communication significantly and positively aids individuals in their personal and professional lives. While some job roles require impactful communicators more than others, effective communication is an essential skill for all professions.

However, developing truly effective communication skills can be a challenge. Achieving this demands integrating one's unique personality into their communication style. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to mastering this art, making it crucial to seek guidance from a proven and flexible corporate communications training consultancy like SecondNature ® International.

SecondNature ® Int’l offers a range of personalised business presentation and pitching skills coaching programmes that cater to online and in-person learners. Anchored in a personality-centric approach, these programmes provide individuals with valuable insights and practical guidance to develop their authentic communication style, which invariably results in improved confidence, impact, and efficacy as a presenter.

“Coaching people to be the presenter they want to be, but WITHOUT changing who they are, maintains their authenticity and ensures their new skills become second nature. Which is where we got our moniker,” says Belinda Huckle, Managing Director and Co-Founder of SecondNature ® International.

The presentation coaching and training programmes offered by the consultancy are comprehensive, covering numerous communication situations. Whether presenting proposals in team meetings, briefing stakeholders, delivering pitch decks, or status reports, SecondNature ® Int’l provides world-class coaching that produces immediate and sustainable differences in individual and organisational performance. Another defining characteristic of its services is its exclusive focus on delivering training and coaching in-house through small-group workshops. By doing this, the firm creates an engaging and collaborative learning environment where participants receive individual attention, detailed coaching over multiple sessions, and the opportunity to rehearse with real-life business presentations.

SecondNature ® Int’l is bolstered by a team of highly seasoned and dedicated professionals who are all ex-senior executives. They are committed to empowering individuals to become the confident and successful presenters they want or need to be, but WITHOUT changing who they are. It’s this approach, they believe, which helps people realise their full professional potential as presenters. This unique approach, combined with 15 years of expertise, has enabled it to partner with many prestigious blue-chip brands worldwide whose participants have praised the firm’s programmes for their transformative impact. In a noteworthy instance of collaboration, SecondNature ® Int’l worked with female executives from the UK’s largest telecommunications company to help catapult their storytelling skills and enhance their presentation performance. By developing communication skills that reflected their natural personalities, the executives triumphantly presented their ideas for business transformation to members of the company’s Senior Leadership Team. As a result of the success of this initiative, it is now being rolled out as an ongoing programme – supporting more women across the business to have a voice and so make a difference. Of course, this collaboration also benefits the company by providing them with a platform to access outstanding ideas from their staff, which they may not have obtained otherwise.

  • Coaching people to be the presenter they want to be, but WITHOUT changing who they are, maintains their authenticity and ensures their new skills become second nature. Which is where we got our moniker.

SecondNature ® Int’l also offers a powerful and proven solution to transform presenting success through its unique Presentation Mapper™ framework. The Presentation Mapper™ is designed to streamline the presentation creation process by providing people with a clear, structured approach to developing the storyline for their presentations. Using this framework, they can easily organise their content into a cohesive, engaging narrative, complete with supporting data, visuals, and other multimedia elements. The result is a polished, professional presentation focused on informing, influencing, or even inspiring the audience.

Over the years, SecondNature ® Int’l has demonstrated its ability to adapt to the ever-changing work landscape and hence the needs of its clients with remarkable agility. An example of this is the increase in hybrid working, meetings and presentations. And so, the consultancy is constantly evolving its services to cater to the changing learning delivery needs of clients, ensuring they maintain a competitive edge. Today, SecondNature ® International is a highly sought partner for numerous industry-leading organisations that trust its unique personality-centric approach, combined with its experience and expertise, when they need business presentation skills training for their people.