In an interactive session, Kit Pang, founder of BostonSpeaks, will share insights from his career of helping Fortune 500 leaders, TEDx speakers, professional athletes and Michelin-starred chefs become better public speakers. His engaging approach will help attendees sharpen their speaking skills, explore powerful speaking techniques, examine their mindset to address speaking beliefs, work on their delivery, and venture outside their comfort zone toward public speaking success.

Pang’s focus on three pillars of public speaking — “Mindset, Manner, Matter” — aims to help people manage how they think, feel and act in order to speak with greater confidence and perform under pressure; hone their presence and delivery; and explore strategies for making their content engaging, clear and persuasive.

Participants will explore persuasive language patterns and learn how to be more clear and coherent and to improve their presence with the effective use of hand gestures. Participants will break into pairs and small groups to practice, and then discuss what they’ve learned.

“Think of it as a gym class, but for speaking,” Pang told the MMA.