PR for People Monthly November 2013 The Entrepreneurial Mindset | Page 24

Every business needs Terry Ward! He has
over 30 years of experience in communication skills
training, and is the founder and president of a national communication and presentation skill straining
organization. The Comm Skills Group offers a fun,
vital and creative training process for business professionals to develop a powerful “State of Mind” so
they can master their own natural strengths as communicators. Clients include: Disney, Mattel, Sony
Pictures, DreamWorks, Activision, Univision, FOX
Sports, ESPN, Logitech, Kaleidoscope ®, and Universal McCann. The firm’s capabilities include training sessions for large group presentations, speeches,
executive coaching, communication selling skills,
communicating change, defining corporate values,
setting company goals and call center effectiveness.
What Terry Ward’s clients are saying about him:
What really distinguishes Terry Ward from other
training consultants is how he gets us to access
ourselves from the inside to understand what we are
thinking and feeling so we can communicate effectively in a way that is spontaneous and not scripted.
–StaciaBird Sr. Director, Human Resources & Administration Craft Brew Alliance
There are only a few people who have had a profound effect on why I do what I do, and Terry Ward
is one of them. A lot of the reason of why I’m good at
what I do came from Terry Ward.
–Jonathan McGrael, Director of Learning and Development Arbor Pharmaceuticals

Terry first developed his expertise through
his many years of work in improvisational theatre,
where he worked as an actor, writer and teacher. Terry was also film and television writer in Los Angeles,
and a playwright in the San Francisco area, where his
critically acclaimed play Bar None was hailed as the
longest running show in Improv.
When we pitch well, we win big.
During his work as a writer in Hollywood, he became highly skilled at the fine art of pitching, and
realized this type of communication, “pitching,”
was a critical component of everything we do in life,
from pitching ideas in business to pitching to our
loved ones in our personal lives. No one understands
pitching as well as someone who has worked in Hollywood (and lived to tell about it).
Having a creative idea is great. Developing it is
exciting. Pitching it can be terrifying. Coming up
with good ideas is hard enough, but convincing others to do something with them is even harder. Every
day we pitch our projects, we pitch our products,
we pitch our stories, we pitch our businesses and we
pitch our investors, weeven pitch our family. Try getting your kids to go to bed on time! It all boils down
to our power to persuade, inspire and motivate the
person who is listening to us!
Follow him on Twitter @The_TerryWard