The most important skill never taught is improvised speaking.
Until now!
If you’re not speaking with zero prep time, are you even really at work?
🏛️ Your day’s going fine and THEN they ask you to present new slides… in the meeting that starts in 5.
🏛️ You’re happy listening to the pitch UNTIL you realise you need to speak up… but no one’s noticed you.
🏛️ You’ve prepared an amazing deck for that 20-minute talk and, Christ! They’ve cut your slot in half. By the way, you’re on next.
20 years of improvising comedy and training other people to do it has shown me how much these skills carry over to speaking at work, networking, dinner tables, pubs, parties, whatever you like really.
This class gives you repeatable strategies that create real effects in listeners’ hearts and minds.
❤️🔥 Relax and be yourself in front of an audience.
❤️🔥 Hold your own, and keep sounding confident, even when things feel awkward
❤️🔥 Know what to say next, even if you’re feeling vague, and be in command
“I realised if I can present random stuff with no preparation, I can DEFINITELY present stuff I DO know really well. So that prepared me very well and I got over my fear of not knowing”
Charles R
Impressive, persuasive and inspiring speech IS language patterns, delivered with flair.
You don’t need previous experience of improv comedy, and you don’t need to try to be funny or clever. The training takes you through all the structures and strategies you need without preparing or trying too hard.
Bring your own ideas and your own life experience, and make it sound great, authentically you, having a good time, cheered on by the class.
Welcome to The Rhetoric, the best fun public speaking class in London. 8 weeks of training and practice with a warm and friendly group.
The best speakers know that improvised speaking is a skill in itself, one that can be learned.
This class takes you straight to trusting your own thinking in real time, through rhetorical strategies, imagination and fun.
Games and exercises from improvised comedy and vocal science.
This is a playground where you practise the real thing: commanding attention, thinking on your feet, and handling high-stakes audiences at work like you’re in your living room.
It’s really extraordinary how much the course
has had an effect on daily interactions with C-level people !!
You’ve changed me!!
🙏🙌🙏👏💫⭐️🥂
CM, Executive
With voice coach and improv comedian Sophie Pumphrey MA
Course details:
8 Wednesdays
starting 14th October to 2 December 2026
7-9pm
1 Islington High Street, London – 3 minutes walk from Angel station
£249