Simon Day

Simon Day

MAYSW, UK

Effective communication is the key to stronger relationships, greater productivity and improved outcomes. Simon helps teams and organisations acquire the knowledge, strategies and courage they need.

From once being terrified of speaking, Simon Day has undertaken an extraordinary journey. 


After over a decade in education with a distinct focus on oracy, including four years in educational leadership and coaching, Simon founded Kingfishers Consulting with a mission of helping to produce the next generation of confident leaders and communicators. 


Simon speaks, trains and coaches leaders, teams and professionals from across the industry spectrum on issues such as leadership, culture, change management, resilience, relationships, communication, public speaking and presentation skills.


Combining his award-winning speaking experience with his academic training in rhetoric, storytelling and speechwriting, Simon not only delivers powerful content but coaches others to create it, empowering themselves and influencing the world around them as a result.


Simon inspires and empowers others to lose their fear, find their voice and communicate with greater power so they develop confidence, forge relationships, grow organisations and lead with courage.


Simon has won numerous UK public speaking awards from Toastmasters International, The Professional Speaking Association and holds Grade 8 Speaking in Public with Distinction from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). 


He has featured on BBC Radio 4, local radio, numerous podcasts and is a podcast host himself. He is husband to Laura (2013) and father to three children.

From once being terrified of speaking, Simon Day has undertaken an extraordinary journey. 


After over a decade in education with a distinct focus on oracy, including four years in educational leadership and coaching, Simon founded Kingfishers Consulting with a mission of helping to produce the next generation of confident leaders and communicators. 


Simon speaks, trains and coaches leaders, teams and professionals from across the industry spectrum on issues such as leadership, culture, change management, resilience, relationships, communication, public speaking and presentation skills.


Combining his award-winning speaking experience with his academic training in rhetoric, storytelling and speechwriting, Simon not only delivers powerful content but coaches others to create it, empowering themselves and influencing the world around them as a result.


Simon inspires and empowers others to lose their fear, find their voice and communicate with greater power so they develop confidence, forge relationships, grow organisations and lead with courage.


Simon has won numerous UK public speaking awards from Toastmasters International, The Professional Speaking Association and holds Grade 8 Speaking in Public with Distinction from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). 


He has featured on BBC Radio 4, local radio, numerous podcasts and is a podcast host himself. He is husband to Laura (2013) and father to three children.

Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking

With online speaking and presenting now dominating the way we work, more people are suffering with communication anxiety than ever before.

Three quarters of us suffer with some form of communication anxiety. From being part of that statistic and experiencing those crippling limitations, I now train and coach people, from a position of empathy, to overcome their fear so they can communicate more powerfully to improve their confidence, productivity and outcomes.

Performance ImprovementPresentation SkillsAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingProfessionalismCommunication

Powerful Presenting

This half or full-day programme takes delegates on a journey through four modules:


Transform Your Mindset

Stagecraft and Delivery Techniques

Language Mastery: Rhetoric, Persuasion and Storytelling

Putting it into Practice


This is an interactive session designed to help you exercise your courage, practise and refine your presentation skills in a safe and supportive environment, led and supported by a UK award-winning speaker and...

CoachingPerformance ImprovementPresentation SkillsAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changingProfessionalismCommunication

Building a Communication Culture

This session will explore how successful cultures are built and maintained of effective communication. By examining case studies and through sharing his own experiences of being part of successful - and less successful - cultures, Simon brings his award-winning speaking experience to help organisations better understand the principles of effective leadership and communication, as well as empowering them with the strategies and courage to put those principles into practice.

Performance ImprovementEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changingProfessionalismCommunication