TEDxAsheville-  “How did our speakers get so good?  Just ask our presentation coach, Rick Fornoff of Message Clarity.

Since 2009, professional presentation coach Rick has worked with our presenters, molding their talks and teaching them clarity and poise under pressure.

After two years of coaching TEDx presenters and other speakers presenting at events all over the country, Rick is our go-to professional of choice. 2011 presenter Joyce Roush says, “Your guidance helped mold my TEDx Talk into something more than even I thought possible. Adding humor, pausing, and using facial expressions all added a dimension I had not used in the past.  I am so grateful for all your support and help.”

Thanks to Rick for three invaluable years of dedicated professional help and service to our presenters.”

       Brett McCall, Executive Director

TEDxGreenville – “I had the pleasure of working with Rick on the inaugural TEDxGreenville event where he was our speaker coach. He was instrumental in our TEDx event being a huge success.

Rick took full ownership of making contact with and coordinating speaker coaching with the 14 speakers we had at the event. He was adept at handling speakers who were very experienced, but needed some polish, as well as speakers who had no experience in front of large audiences at all. From a young college student to a middle-aged Baptist minister, from an engineer to a kayaker – they all had different skill sets, differing areas of interest, and needed coaching in different aspects of speaking.

The TEDxGreenville audience (and the organizing team) were blown away with the results! Rick’s coaching gave me, as the head of the speaker selection team, great confidence that our speakers would be prepared. We had no boring presentations nor time overruns.

I highly recommend Rick to help ensure that your presentations are engaging, effective and communicate your message clearly to your audience.”

Marc Bolick, Speaker Committee Chairman

TEDxCharlotte – “Rick’s training was one of the key drivers of the success of our event and had enormous impact on the direct results–amazing presentations! His first-hand knowledge of this type of event and the specific expertise he brought to the table alleviated alot of work on us as organizers and certainly boosted the confidence level for our presenters. He was extremely personable while always focused on the ultimate goal–to get our speakers to the highest level of performance.”

Candice Langston, Executive Director

TEDxCreativeCoast – “While preparing for the Master of Ceremonies role at TEDx Creative Coast, Rick’s input and guidance helped greatly. Not only did he uncover “ticks” that were too slow for me to notice but his input on my delivery gave me added confidence once on stage. I’d highly recommend Rick’s services prior to ANY public speaking engagement.”

Radford Harrell, Organizer and Emcee