Every Important Opportunity Begins With Communication
Whether you’re speaking to one person or one thousand, communication shapes how others perceive you, how much they trust you, and whether they act on your ideas.
You may be preparing for a media interview, keynote speech, investor pitch, board meeting, podcast interview, difficult conversation, leadership announcement, customer presentation, or another high-stakes communication opportunity.
The situations may be different, but the goal is the same: communicating in a way that inspires confidence, builds trust, and gets results.
Founder, Lisa Elia
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How We Help
Flexible Solutions Designed Around Your Goals
Every client and every organization has different goals, communication challenges, and learning preferences. That’s why we offer multiple ways to develop stronger communication skills, which can be used individually or together.
Private Coaching
Private, personalized coaching for executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, authors, subject matter experts, athletes, public figures, and professionals preparing for important communication opportunities.
Customized Workshops and Team Training
Interactive programs tailored to your organization’s goals, communication challenges, and culture.
What Makes Us Different
More Than Communication Skills
Our approach goes beyond communication techniques to strengthen the thinking behind the communication. We combine strategy with the mindsets, habits, and emotional intelligence that help people think clearly, navigate complexity, reduce friction, and communicate at their best. Throughout our work, the focus remains on what effective communication should ultimately accomplish: stronger relationships, better solutions, greater productivity, and the ability to inspire action.
Every coaching engagement is tailored to the client, the audience, and the outcomes you’re working toward. We focus on the strengths you can build on, the challenges that may be getting in your way, and the situations in which your communication matters most. From there, we integrate the strategies, coaching, practice, and feedback that will have the greatest impact, creating an experience that is highly relevant to you and the situations you actually face.
The result is communication that creates greater impact. Clients are able to build trust and credibility, influence decisions, navigate high-stakes moments, and move people to action. Rather than preparing them only for the opportunity immediately ahead, our work strengthens their ability to communicate effectively across the important moments and challenges they’ll encounter throughout their careers.
Why the Name “Expert Media Training?”
Our Name Reflects Where We Began.
Our Expertise Reflects Where Our Clients Led Us.
Expert Media Training was founded to help public relations clients prepare for media interviews.
Over time, those same clients came back with new communication challenges. They asked for help preparing presentations, keynote speeches, investor pitches, board meetings, podcasts, panel discussions, executive communication, team communication, and other high-stakes situations where the ability to communicate clearly and confidently could make a meaningful difference.
As our clients’ needs evolved, so did our services.
Today, we help individuals and organizations prepare for virtually every important communication opportunity.
While our name reflects where we started, our work reflects where our clients have taken us: helping people communicate more strategically, confidently, and effectively in daily interactions and high-stakes situations.
Meet Lisa Elia
Helping People Communicate with Confidence for More Than 25 Years
Lisa Elia founded Expert Media Training after building a successful career in public relations and strategic communications. What began as media interview coaching has grown into a comprehensive communication training company serving organizations and individuals around the world.
Today, Lisa helps clients prepare for media interviews, presentations, speeches, investor pitches, executive communication, leadership communication, difficult conversations, and many other situations where communication can influence outcomes.
Known for her practical, strategic, and highly personalized approach, Lisa helps clients think differently about communication. Her coaching goes beyond preparing for individual events to strengthening the way people think, lead, influence, and communicate throughout their careers.
SpeakerShift Leadership Communication Accelerator
A comprehensive online communication development program that combines engaging lessons, practical exercises, implementation resources, and real-world application. Organizations can license the program for their teams, and individuals can complete it at their own pace.
This program includes proprietary AI tools developed by Lisa Elia to help participants organize ideas, prepare for presentations, strengthen messaging, practice difficult conversations, and communicate more effectively. These tools are designed to enhance human thinking, not replace it, while helping participants work more efficiently.
Many clients combine coaching or team training with the SpeakerShift Leadership Communication Accelerator, creating a blended learning experience that reinforces concepts, encourages continued practice, and provides valuable resources long after the live sessions end.
Organizations We’ve Worked With
A selection of organizations whose leaders and teams have worked
with
Expert Media Training.
Words From Our Clients
Hear what clients have to say about working with Lisa Elia and Expert Media Training.
“Before working with Lisa, I dreaded public speaking. Every presentation felt like something to survive, not deliver. In addition to presentation skills, Lisa helped me completely shift my mindset. Instead of bracing for the worst, I now feel prepared, confident, and even excited to share my ideas. The change wasn’t just in my delivery; it was how I approached public speaking altogether.”
National Fitness Partners
“Lisa, I cannot thank you enough for yesterday! Your professionalism and easy going personality made the day a success. Our team has given me great praises and they loved how engaging and interactive the training was. And they’re excited for some one-on-ones and to get some of their staff into a similar training for next year.”
Roaring Fork Transportation Authority
Let’s Talk
Whether You’re Developing One Person or an Entire Organization, We’re Here to Help.
We’ll take the time to understand your goals and recommend what makes the most sense for you. That may be focused coaching or customized training, or a broader solution that includes online learning and AI-powered resources.