Nobody complains about your presentations.
That's the problem.
You prepare, you present, people nod. Nobody objects, and the decision moves to next month. Because nothing visibly goes wrong, nothing gets fixed. Meanwhile, your time, your energy and your best ideas quietly drain away.
The Speak UPP! Lab breaks the autopilot.
We take your next important moment from design to delivery.
Together, until it lands.
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The cost nobody puts on the agenda
It's not a talent problem. You know your stuff. It's autopilot: the same deck, the same format, the same polite nods. And it costs you more than you think.
Your Effort
Hours of prep. Same result.
The evening before, spent polishing slides. The follow-up meeting you had to set up because the first one didn't land. The same story, told again to the next audience. All that work, and you still walk out wondering whether it got through.
Your Impact
The decision parked. Again.
Your proposal gets a polite "let's pick this up next month". Your budget waits another quarter. Your idea was the right one, but someone else's won. Nobody tells you why, so you never see the opportunity you missed. This is the one that hurts most.
The Speak UPP! Lab: Done With You
Most fixes cover one part.
The Lab covers all three, with you.
A moment that lands takes design (shaping the message), development (building the piece), and delivery (landing it in the room). What I see in organisations: plenty of e-learning, coaching for the few at the top, and agencies that build the deck for you. Each covers part of it.
I won't create it for you.
I'll make sure you can.
You bring a moment that matters: a pitch, a buy-in presentation, a session you run, the update you give every month. We plan backwards from your date and work on it together, online, from the first idea to the dry run. You deliver it, on screen or in the room, and we debrief.
You leave with the piece, and with the skills to do the next one yourself.
Underneath it all is the Speak UPP! method: Understand, Prepare, Perform.
Three Formats
Solo Lab
Just you, your moment and me. Full attention on your piece, planned around your date, from the first idea to the debrief. For professionals inside organisations and for independents.
Team Lab
For the moment you deliver together: the joint pitch, the launch, the workshop you run as a team. We build it with everyone involved, so it lands as one story, not a relay of separate slides.
Cohort Lab
The same route, in a small group. Everyone brings their own moment, coming up soon or one they deliver regularly, and sharpens it with peer feedback in the room.
Not sure which one fits? That's what the Discovery Call is for.
Hi, I'm Ricardo.
20+ years of making people better communicators and 6 years of mastering the screen.
My first big stage presentation, in Paris in 2001, was a tough one where I failed miserably. But the journey that followed taught me most of what I teach today. I’ve worked as a facilitator, learning designer, and coach, helping professionals* across Europe, Asia and the Gulf find their voice, presence and confidence.
Since the shift to virtual, I’ve helped hundreds of professionals tackle the specific challenge of presenting through a screen: how to project energy, hold attention, and create real connection when there’s no room to read.
Inside organisations, I keep seeing the same pattern: smart people on autopilot, running the same presentation again and again while the opportunities slip past. The Lab is how I help them break it. In their real moment, side by side, until it lands.
*Clients include Philips, Signify, Vodafone, Air France-KLM, Qatar Energy, Heineken, Xerox.
"My team builds some of our most technically ambitious features, but getting leadership on board always took three meetings instead of one. After Speak UPP!, I was able to pitch a roadmap change in a single call. Clear, structured, and confident. The technical thinking was always there. Now it actually lands."
David Okafor
Engineering Team Lead
"We have brilliant subject matter experts, but internal training sessions used to be forty-slide marathons nobody remembered a week later. Since sending three of them through Speak UPP! Lab, our sessions run tighter, land the point in the first five minutes, and people actually reference them afterward. That's the difference between having knowledge and transferring it."
Priya Nair
L&D Manager
"My sales team are naturally strong presenters, that was never the concern. What surprised me was how much of that strength got lost the moment a pitch moved from the boardroom to a video call. After the Lab, the team sounds like themselves again on screen. Not flatter, not rushed. Our first virtual client meetings land the way our in-person ones always have."
Marco Alberti
Sales Director
