We raise the payoff and ease the pain of high-stakes presentations because we’ve been there ourselves
We’ve run business units and managed products, people, and P&Ls – so we know what matters to your audience.
We’ve coached hundreds of speakers to top scores at internal and public events such as TEDxBoston and the National Retail Federation.
We are world-class communicators who have created and delivered high-profile presentations to tens of thousands of businesspeople, including:
Boards of Directors. At Morgan Stanley, for example, we persuaded the board to integrate digital and human channels.
Senior leadership teams, such as at The New York Times Company, American Express, and Charles Schwab.
Large audiences at industry events. We’ve energized thousands of attendees at events such as Sao Paulo Fashion Week and the Investment Company Institute.
Bill Doyle, Partner
For more than 20 years, Bill has identified and evangelized the long-term trends that will change industries such as financial services.
At Fidelity Investments, Bill led research teams for the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and Fidelity Labs. He helped produce TEDxBoston.
At Forrester Research, he led the firm's coverage of a number of industries, including financial services, media and advertising. As host of 15 annual Forrester conferences, Bill guided presentations by and conducted on-stage interviews with the CEOs of dozens of major firms, including Yahoo!, Vanguard, Ogilvy, Edward Jones, Citi, Charles Schwab, Capital One, Bank of America, and American Express.
He has written or directed hundreds of speeches and reports, and has delivered high-impact presentations to tens of thousands of people. Bill has been quoted widely and has appeared on NPR, PBS, and CNBC new shows such as Squawk Box.
Before Forrester, Bill spent 15 years designing, building, and running online services at AT&T, Ziff-Davis, and Citibank, where he led the design of applications for the first full-screen consumer telephone. He was also a researcher and writer at Newsweek.
Bill is an honors graduate of Harvard College.
Michael Gazala, Partner
Michael Gazala has spent his career as a strategic business leader and storyteller. He has held senior executive roles in market research, trend forecasting and financial services organizations and worked directly with financial services, technology, retail, fashion and design clients.
Through his insight and leadership, he has helped frame the future for businesses in many industries, including financial services, technology and fashion. For example, while at Forrester, he authored several award-winning reports including Revitalizing Agents and Brokers and Winning In The Age Of The Customer. As an accomplished speech writer and public speaker, he has written and delivered more than 100 speeches, and spoken in front of audiences as diverse as Fortune 100 Boards of Directors and Sao Paulo Fashion Week attendees. Michael has also coached hundreds of speakers who've gone on to deliver top-rated speeches at events such as Forrester Forums, the Advertising Research Foundation and the National Retail Federation.
Most recently, Michael has been helping to produce policy papers for one of the world's largest investment managers about the most critical societal trends and technologies that will impact them over the coming five to ten years. Topics include income inequality, longevity and the future of retirement, the dominance of platform companies and the rise of the intangible economy.
Michael has appeared on CNBC and CNN, and has been quoted widely in publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has a master's degree in business from The Darden School at the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science and Foreign Service from Georgetown University.