Clients

I’ve had the honor of working with diplomats, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, aspiring politicians, nonprofit leaders, doctors, and undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. No matter the industry or job level, I have enjoyed helping my clients find their own unique speaking voice. Please enjoy the testimonials below and feel free to reach out to me directly if you’d like to connect with someone listed here.

Client Testimonials

“When regular public speaking became essential to my position in the organization, I knew I needed to move beyond dreading these events and begin taking advantage of the opportunities.  Allison Shapira helped me tremendously in approaching speaking opportunities with more confidence and organization.  She has given me a customized preparation plan that I still use before each speaking opportunity to ensure that I am communicating clearly with my audience, am comfortable with my remarks, and deliver my message with passion – all critical to raising funds for UNICEF’s work around the world.” – Director, New England, U.S. Fund for UNICEF

“Poised, powerful, professional…Allison Shapira delivers hard-hitting techniques to make anyone a more effective communicator.  She provided me with skills on how to establish an immediate connection and build rapport with a new person.  As an Air Force officer who deals with senior leaders and decision makers, time is of the essence.  Ms. Shapira, in her “Elevator Speech” class, gave me useful techniques to engage a senior leader and convey information in a coherent and meaningful way.  I am confident that the skills she taught me will make me a more effective communicator and more focused leader.  Thank you for your superior delivery and applicable tools which will help advance my career in and outside of the military.” - Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force

“As a practicing physician, with a diverse background in clinical and academic medicine as well as health policy, I knew coming to the Harvard Kennedy School would provide opportunities that would allow me to meet added challenges at the national level.  I also knew that challenging myself in the arena of presentation and communication was to be a crucial element of my participation at HKS.  I attended Ms. Shapira’s public speaking workshops throughout the year and was uniformly impressed with the consistent quality and depth of material that Ms Shapira has provided. She provided greater quality and pointed mentoring in her workshops than I and others received in semester long courses. She displayed a unique ability to welcome and comfort diverse participants, many of whom were not native English speakers. She demonstrated equal aplomb with high officials and students alike, and she routinely had return attendees who attributed their communication skill improvement to her and rated her as among the best instructors in category. Ms. Shapira combines talent, grace and interpersonal skills honed from a very impressive professional history.  Her training in opera, languages, culture, and diplomacy, has brought her unique talents that she continues to share with diverse people from all areas of life and is remarkable.” - Physician, MD, MPH, MPA