Speak, Lead & Influence
Presentation skills training for professionals in Singapore who want to build speaking confidence, communication skills, and executive presence.
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
- Cohort Full · Stay tuned for the next intake in Q4 2026
Your expertise deserves a voice that matches it.
Where Did Your Confidence Go?
Speak, Lead & Influence is a 12-session public speaking course for mid to senior professionals in Singapore. It combines mental fitness coaching with presentation skills training to address the root cause of communication breakdown under pressure, not just the symptoms.
The thing is, you know your work. You’ve put in the years. And there are moments, a presentation, a meeting, a conversation that matters, where you walk away knowing that wasn’t really you.
Yet, you rushed, tightened up, and said half of what you meant to say.
That feeling is more common than most people admit. And it has nothing to do with how smart you are or how well you know your material.
What this programme gives you is the understanding of why that happens, and a way through it that actually holds when the pressure is real.
Starts 16 July 2026 · 12 sessions · 15 hours · Thursdays 8:00–9:00 PM · Online + In-Person Finale
Cohort full • Stay tuned for the next intake.
You’ve tried the workshops. Something’s still missing.
Why Professionals in Singapore Lose Their Voice Under Pressure
Most professionals who come to this programme have already tried to fix this. They’ve attended presentation skills workshops, watched videos, rehearsed more, prepared more…
And they still feel the same way when the moment arrives.
That feeling points to something specific. There’s a thinking pattern running quietly in the background, and it’s been there for a long time. More or less, it sounds like this:
- “I know my work, but I don’t feel like I come across well when I speak.”
- “The loudest voices get heard, even when they’re not the most capable.”
- “I either avoid speaking up, or I force myself through it.”
- “I’ve attended presentation training before, but something is still missing.”
- “I don’t feel like myself when I’m presenting.”
Until you can see it clearly and know how to work with it, the skills you’re building sit on an unstable foundation.
That’s what this programme addresses first.
You already know something needs to change.
Imagine walking into the next high-stakes room and actually feeling ready.
Not performed ready. Not rehearsed-every-word ready.
Grounded, clear, and genuinely yourself. That version of you is three months away.
Starts 16 July 2026 · 12 sessions · 15 hours · Thursdays 8:00–9:00 PM · Online + In-Person Finale
What you’ve been working toward, finally within reach.
What You’ll Walk Away With From This Public Speaking Course
01
Speak with Confidence and Impact
Walk into any room and communicate with the clarity and presence that makes people listen in meetings, pitches, town halls, and high-stakes conversations.
02
Handle Pressure with Composure
Freezing, rushing, over-explaining, these are all responses to pressure. You’ll learn to stay composed instead, and respond with the kind of clarity that builds credibility every time.
03
Build Genuine Influence
Shift from someone who delivers results to someone who commands the room when it counts. Develop the executive presence that defines credible leaders in Singapore and beyond.
04
Know What’s Been Holding You Back
Understand the thinking patterns running in the background and learn to override them in real time, so that your public speaking confidence holds even when the stakes are highest.
COHORT FULL
Starts 16 July 2026 · Intake Closed
Thursdays · 8:00–9:00 PM
Online + In-Person Finale (26 Sept)
Skills alone haven’t fixed it. Here’s what does.
How This Presentation Skills Training Works
Most presentation skills training starts with technique: body language, voice, slide design. These things matter. And they work a lot better when the foundation underneath them is solid.
This programme starts at the foundation.
01
Mindset
Your actual state of mind.
You’ll identify the specific thinking patterns, inner critic voices, and self-sabotaging habits that take over when the pressure hits.
Once you can see them clearly, you can work with them instead of being run by them.
02
Toolset
Speaking frameworks, storytelling techniques, and structure.
Once the foundation is in place, we give you the tools to organise and communicate your ideas with clarity, intention, and impact.
These are the skills that actually stick because the internal state is now ready to hold them.
03
Skillset
Body language, tone, and reading your audience.
The execution layer of public speaking.
When your mindset is grounded and your tools are in place, this becomes natural, not something you have to consciously manage.
12 sessions. 15 hours. Built around your schedule.
How the Programme Is Delivered
Phase 1: Mental Fitness Foundation (Weeks 1–8)
This is where the real work starts. Over eight weeks, you’ll identify the specific thinking patterns that take over when the pressure hits, and build the internal foundation that makes everything else in this programme actually stick.
- Week 1 • Thursday, 16 July • Orientation and Welcome
- Week 2 • Thursday, 23 July • Building Your Mental Foundation
- Week 3 • Thursday, 30 July • Understanding Your Inner Critic
- Week 4 • Thursday, 6 August • Recognising Your Self-Sabotaging Patterns
- Week 5 • Thursday, 13 August • Connecting with Your Audience
- Week 6 • Thursday, 20 August • Thinking Clearly Under Pressure
- Week 7 • Thursday, 27 August • Building Momentum and Presence
- Week 8 • Thursday, 3 September • Putting It All Together
Phase 2: Present with Impact (Weeks 9–11)
With the foundation in place, these three sessions are where you bring it into the room. Live coaching from Youyi, focused entirely on how you speak, present, and hold yourself when it counts.
- Week 9 • Thursday, 10 September • Speaking with Impact, Part 1
- Week 10 • Thursday, 17 September • Speaking with Impact, Part 2
- Week 11 • Thursday, 24 September • Speaking with Impact, Part 3
Phase 3: Finale
The moment it all comes together. You present on a topic of your choice, receive live feedback, and leave knowing what grounded, confident public speaking actually feels like, not just as a concept, but in your body.
- Week 12 • Saturday, 26 September • In-Person Coaching and Final Presentation 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM • Location TBC
How is the programme delivered?
Four layers. One transformation.
Daily App Learning
15 minutes a day through the programme app. Small, consistent, and cumulative. This is where the neurological rewiring that underpins lasting communication skills happens, built into your day without clearing your calendar.
3-Month App Access Included · Valued at USD 995
Weekly Pod Sessions
8 live group coaching sessions across Weeks 1-8. Each session brings together the mental fitness work and your public speaking practice, so you’re applying what you’re learning in real time, not just absorbing it.
Thursdays · 8:00–9:00 PM · Online · 7 Sessions
Present with Impact Sessions
3 dedicated live coaching sessions in Weeks 9-11. These sessions focus entirely on how you speak, present, and communicate under pressure, with direct coaching on your specific patterns and delivery.
Thursdays, 10/17/24 September · 10 AM – 12 PM · Location Confirmed on Enrolment
In-Person Finale
A 4-hour coaching and final presentation day. You present on a topic of your choice, receive live feedback, and leave with a felt sense of what grounded, confident public speaking actually feels like, not just intellectually, but in your body.
Saturday, 26 September · 9:00 AM–1:00 PM · Location TBC
Coached by people who have been exactly where you are.
Your Coaches
Inside Out Academy was founded by two sisters in Singapore who rebuilt their own performance, confidence, and communication from the inside out. They’ve spent the last decade guiding professionals through the same transformation.
Lead Coach · This Programme
Youyi Lin (Iriana Halim)
Executive Presence & Presentation Coach · Co-founder, Inside Out Academy
Youyi spent more than a decade as a prime-time TV presenter in Singapore and developed the kind of technical polish that comes from performing under live broadcast pressure every week.
At a certain point, she stepped away and enrolled in a public speaking class in New York, not as a presenter, but as a student. She walked in expecting feedback on technique. Instead, her trainer asked a question no one had ever put to her in ten years of professional presenting: “How did you feel?”
She didn’t have an answer. For the first time, she realised that everything she had learned, pace, tone, clarity, eye contact, had been about managing the outside. Nobody had ever asked about what was happening inside.
Her trainer’s next observation stopped her completely: “You’re not communicating. You’re trying to impress.”
That moment reoriented everything. Youyi spent the following years studying the relationship between internal state and external expression (what neuroscientists call the mind-body feedback loop in performance contexts) and built the executive presence and presentation coaching methodology she now delivers at Inside Out Academy.
Her clients are managers, team leads, and senior professionals in Singapore who are already competent and want their communication to hold when the stakes are real. The work is about restoring the connection between who they are and what comes out when it counts.
Co-founder
Julina Halim
Accredited Nutritionist & Health Coach · Co-founder, Inside Out Academy
Julina has spent 25 years working at the intersection of functional nutrition, neuroscience, and corporate performance across Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.
Over that time, one pattern emerged consistently across every industry and seniority level she worked with: high-performing professionals whose nervous systems were working against them, quietly, beneath the surface. People who had the skills, the experience, and the track record, and whose performance still deteriorated the moment pressure arrived.
That observation shaped everything she built. The mental fitness methodology she brings to Speak, Lead & Influence is grounded in current research in neuroplasticity and stress physiology, and designed specifically for professionals who need their performance to hold in real conditions, not just controlled ones.
Each week, she and Youyi work in tandem. Julina builds the internal foundation. Youyi applies it directly to your public speaking and communication practice. The result is a transformation that holds because it was built at the right layer from the start.
Case Studies.
What This Looks Like in Practice
High Performing Manager
Daily App-Based Learning
A manager known for strong execution found that deep personal investment in the organisation made critical conversations emotionally charged, clouding strategic clarity.
Through Mental Fitness training, this leader developed a practical framework to regulate internal triggers within minutes, separate emotion from judgment, and respond with deliberate perspective.
Feedback conversations became sharper and more constructive. Stakeholder input was received strategically rather than defensively. And this manager elevated into a more composed, high-calibre leader and trusted not just for delivery, but for mature judgment and executive presence.
Senior Manager · Financial Services
Newly Promoted Leader
7× Live Group Coaching
Promoted into a leadership role, this professional quickly discovered that clinical excellence did not automatically translate into managerial confidence. The shift in identity — from subject-matter expert to decision-maker — felt unfamiliar, particularly during a high-stakes restructuring requiring difficult personnel decisions.
Through Mental Fitness training, the ability to regulate stress, separate guilt from responsibility, and approach decisions with clarity replaced emotional overwhelm. The restructuring was handled with composure and integrity.
Most importantly, this leader reframed the transition internally, embracing leadership not as a burden, but as an expanded responsibility.
Senior Medical Professional · Healthcare
Backed by Neuroscience. Built for Real Careers.
This programme is grounded in the latest research in neuroscience and mental fitness. These are the same methodologies used by thousands of professionals worldwide to build the inner resilience that drives lasting performance.
Programme Outcomes.
The Numbers Behind the Transformation
90%
use mental and emotional energy more effectively
after seven weeks of training
91%
manage stress and pressure better
after seven weeks of training
92%
improved at teamwork and collaboration
after seven weeks of training
98%
experienced emotional intelligence growth
after seven weeks of training
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Speak, Lead & Influence
$2800 $1,895
per person · one-time payment
8 weekly mental fitness pod sessions
3 Present with Impact coaching sessions
4-hour in-person coaching & final presentation
3-month app access (USD 995 value)
Session recordings
Supportive peer community
Cohort full. Starts 16 July 2026.
Once it’s full, the next intake opens in 3 months.
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Private Coaching
$6,000
per person · 3-month engagement
All the depth of the Open Pod, delivered in a private setting. Every session and every coaching moment tailored entirely to you.
A few things people usually want to know before applying.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this programme designed for?
Speak, Lead & Influence is designed for mid to senior-level professionals in Singapore, including managers, team leads, project leads, and subject experts.
If you’re already performing well in your field, the programme builds the public speaking confidence, communication skills, and executive presence that get you recognised as leadership material.
How much time does it require each week?
The programme requires approximately one hour and 45 minutes per week.
This breaks down into 15 minutes a day through the app and one live group session on Thursday evenings from 8:00 to 9:00 PM.
The structure is designed to fit into your busy schedule without requiring you to completely clear your calendar.
Why is the cohort kept small?
The cohort is kept small to ensure every participant receives genuinely personalised coaching in every session.
A limited group size creates the depth of feedback, trust, and peer accountability that produces faster and more lasting results than a larger workshop format.
What if I've done coaching or workshops before?
This programme is built differently from standard presentation skills workshops or communication skills training.
The work begins at the thinking pattern underneath the technique, which is why it produces results in cases where other approaches may have not.
What if I miss a live session?
All sessions are recorded and made available to you so no progress is lost.
You’re already ready
Weeks from now, you could be a different kind of leader.
One who speaks clearly in the room that matters. Who gives feedback without flinching. Who handles pressure without it showing. Who gets recognised not just for results, but for how they lead.
That version of you isn’t far away. It’s one operating system upgrade away.
SGD $2,800 SGD $1,895 (Save SGD $905)
Cohort Full · Starts 16 July 2026