This CPD-accredited public speaking workshop trains participants to speak engagingly about their work with confidence and character. Book an individual place on the course, or a bespoke private course for your team.

About the course

Everyone can be a brilliant public speaker with practice and good coaching

This course is suitable for anybody in a city-making profession including architects, planners, local authority employees, engineers, clients and landscape designers and cultural and creative sectors. We engage coaches with experience in acting, tour guiding, lecturing, direction and persuasive conversation technique supporting attendees to see public speaking in a new light whether on stage, over Zoom, on camera, in client meetings or in design reviews.

Join the evening course or book a bespoke workshop for your team

The Open City Public Speaking training is available as a short course comprising one two-hour weekday evening workshops in central London.

Alternatively, for practices or workplaces who wish to offer the training to a larger team, we can also provide the course as a bespoke one-day, or two half-days workshop delivered from your own office.

We’re experts in engaging broad audiences in meaningful conversations about architecture, culture and city-making

For three decades, Open City has told powerful stories about architecture. Our annual Open House Festivals draw audiences measurable in the hundreds of thousands. We believe that by telling great stories about buildings and cities, architects and city-makers can build influence, capture imaginations, win work and be better able to effect change.