Welcome to the Atkinson Communications website which normally describes the main services we offer. But for the time being the usual site starts after news of an unusual event in early March.
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Zoom conference on 3rd March 2020, organised by the European Speechwriters Network.
AN AUDIENCE WITH Dr MAX ATKINSON
If you rewind this first clip to a few minutes after it starts, you can watch the whole session, except for the clips thatreproduced below (from Clark Judge, Senator John Barrasso, Professor John Heritage and Belgian presentation trainer Carsten Wendt).
Clark Judge, WhiteHouse Writers Group & former speechwriter for US President Ronald Reagan
John Barrasso, Republican Senator for Wyoming
Professor John Heritage, Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles
Carsten Wendt, progessional presentation trainer, Belgium
Lord Chris Rennard. former chief executive of the Liberal Democrats
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Main website:
Claptrap – World in Action
CLAPTRAP: the Granada Television documentary showing how a woman who’d never spoken in public was coached and won a standing ovation at the 1984 SDP conference (27 minutes in 2 parts).
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Covid 19 has meant that we have not been able to do any face-to-face coaching for many months – so we’re now offering online coaching and courses via Zoom, correspondece, etc. Further details from maxatkinson@speaking.co.uk or phone (+44 (0)1749 870600).
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Max Atkinson’s 
academic background:
From 1974-1986, he was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, having formerly lectured at the universities of Lancaster and Manchester. He was a visiting professor at the Henley Management College from 1986 to 2006 and has also been visiting professor at Duke University, North Carolina and the universities of Vienna and Stockholm .
He was recently elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences and was given a lifetime achievement award by the UK Speechwriters’ Guild.
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Speaker-training for business leaders
He’s helped managers in numerous companies and organisations in the UK and abroad to improve their presentations, often working individually with CEOs and other board level executives.
Speaker-training for political leaders
In 1985, he ran a seminar on speech writing in the Reagan White House, and was a close advisor on presentation and communication to the late Paddy Ashdown throughout his leadership of the Liberal Democrats (1988-1999) and later when he was the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia Herzogovina.
“Neither politicians nor business leaders can lead today without the ability to communicate with audiences. They have two choices: (1) be born with the ability, or (2) read Max Atkinson’s books and learn.” – Michael Sheehan (speech coach to Bill Clinton and president, Sheehan Associates, Washington, D.C.)
“No one surpasses Atkinson in the rigor and clarity with which he spells out how to move audiences to applause, get quoted in the media and become known as the most brilliant presence on any podium.” – Clark Judge (former speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan and managing director, White House Writers Group, Washington, D.C.
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Atkinson’s books include
Contact details:
Atkinson Communications, Rose Cottage, Perch Hill, Westbury-sub-Mendip, Wells, Somerset, BA5 1JA