Stop speaking. Start performing.
To earn your spot on stage, you need to move from speaker to performer.
Performers inspire their audiences to feel, think, and act differently. Performers reach out from the stage and touch the hearts and minds of the people in front of them. They do the unexpected. Â
Performers entertain.
But HEROIC performers do more.
They surprise, delight, and deliver insight. They masterfully combine insight and entertainment. They make their audiences see the world differently.
You see, the best professional speakers are the ones who don’t just speak on stage, they deliver transformational experiences.
Those speakers are the ones that event planners can’t stop talking about. They’re the ones audiences admire and remember. They’re the ones that change lives.
Our Promise
Deliver the best performances of your life. We promise that you and your speech will be transformed, improved, and refined in just three months.
The Program
GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery is a hybrid program with both in-person and virtual events. You’ll come to our HEROIC campus for 3 different 3-day sessions.
In between those sessions, you’ll attend live virtual sessions and meet with your rehearsal groups virtually to reinforce what you’re learning and practicing on campus.
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The 8 Performance Principles
Throughout the GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery program, you’ll discover performance techniques, tools, and visionary guidance that will transform you from speaker to performer.
The 8 Performance Principles you’ll master will take you on a deep dive into high-level stagecraft and performance techniques.
Feel confident on stage. Know exactly how to improve your performance during your rehearsal sessions. Perform your speech with full self-expression and authenticity.
This is what it takes to make your mark on stage.
Stop Memorizing Your Speech and Start Learning It
Never “recite” your speech on stage again.
If you need to look at your slides to know what comes next, you don’t know your speech. But memorizing your content verbatim puts you on autopilot on stage—and you need to be deeply present. With HEROIC’s 7-step rehearsal process, you’ll put in the work before getting on stage, so when you do, you’ll show up and shine.
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A Symphony of Sound
When you turn your words into music, your speech comes alive.
Keep thousands of people on the edge of their seats for sixty minutes—with only your words. There’s a specialized technique for making your words stick. Most “speech coaches” have no idea what it is—but it’s key to making your speech easy to understand, captivating, and transformational.
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Surprise and Delight Your Audience—Every Single Time
Craft an entertaining, engaging, and enlightening performance.
New insight and groundbreaking information isn’t enough—your audience expects to be entertained. To entertain, you need to be theatrical. But you don’t need a clown nose. You need to craft emotional moments, make bigger commitments, and master the five performance techniques to entertain and inspire.
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Break the Fourth Wall
Connecting with the audience isn’t just about what you say.
Every time you step on stage, there’s an imaginary wall separating you from your audience. But speaking your innermost thoughts isn’t enough to break down the barrier and connect. You need more than an emotional connection, you need a physical connection—one that comes from authentic expression.
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Mission Pilot at Polaris Program, Mission Director at Inspiration4
"Absolutely loved everything about the experience! The HEROIC process takes you through step-by-step and helps build the confidence you need to take your speaking to the highest levels."
Stand and Land
Movement that matches your message.
The most important visual on stage is you. Use the most powerful place on stage, move naturally and purposefully, and bring your speech to life when you master this essential performance technique. It’s the Achilles heel of most speakers, but when you learn it, you’ll take your speech from amateur to amazing.
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The Way You Make Them Feel
Make them laugh, cry, and gasp—regardless of your emotional state.
If you don’t make your audience feel, they’ll never change their behavior. But how you feel has nothing to do with how you make them feel. When you know the three keys for provoking emotion, you can make your audience feel the transformation, think about your big idea, and act differently.
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Build Bridges
Create moments when your audience steps inside your story.
Your story matters to you, but won’t matter to your audience unless it’s about them. Cast your audience as the main character in your stories, and build bridges with powerful moments of reflection. Make your stories more compelling—using one essential storytelling element that adds action, emotion, and suspense.
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The Signature Bit
When you have a telling problem, you need a showing answer.
If your audience understands your message, but doesn’t do anything about it, you have a telling problem. Giving more information won’t solve the problem, but showing your big idea with an entertaining and effective signature bit will. There’s one thing your signature bit must be…and one thing it should never be.
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Speaking, Director at Performance Culture Consulting
"I cannot imagine there are any higher quality professional programs in the world. HEROIC has helped me break through countless glass ceilings and transformed me into a confident speaker. Thanks to this evolution, the professional future I envision for myself looks completely different, and I can't wait to see it through. Thank you HEROIC!"
Who it’s for
This stage performance program is designed for speakers, authors, and thought leaders who want to develop a reliable, insightful, and entertaining presentation.
who get positive reviews from their audiences, but know deep down that they could do better by mastering the craft of performance.
who have put in the work to create a powerful message and are ready to make it stage-worthy and present it to their specific audiences.
who want to craft a presentation that’s easier for audiences to understand, accept, and feel—using the power of performance techniques.
who want to add more theatricality to their performance and get applause not just for who they are, but for what they can make their audiences feel on stage.
who aren’t willing to put in the hours to rehearse their speech and make it audience-ready.
who prefer to find faults and mistakes in other people’s presentations (and their own) rather than focus on the positive with a “yes, and…” attitude.
who watch other speaker’s presentations to find and steal stories, signature bits, and ideas and then use them as their own.
who are searching for short-cuts, hacks, and overnight success programs that will bring them fame and fortune with zero effort on their part.
Keynote Speaker, Award-Winning Entrepreneur
"HEROIC has changed my life. As a result of doing this work, I've recognized my true dreams of becoming a speaker and for the first time in my life I feel I am developing the tools to not only find my way onto a stage, but to own the stage when I get there!"
Make Deep, Lasting Changes in How You Perform on Stage
Our approach to speaking is different from any other programs on the market today.
This isn’t a 30-minute masterclass about storytelling and stage performance. It isn’t a short virtual course with a few videos about increasing your confidence on stage. It’s not a 2-day bootcamp that gives you a few tips and tricks but leaves you wanting more.
This is deep learning.
It’s meant to change, transform, and recreate who you are as a speaker.
At HEROIC, you won't just get information, you’ll experience transformation.
The rehearsal process is about finding what’s most alive in your speech, and bringing it to life.
Because the stage is where big ideas belong. And it’s where you bring your audience the largeness of life.
Use HEROIC’s 7-Step Rehearsal Method to craft a transformational performance during rehearsal sessions, and make giving your speech the easiest part of all.
You’ll be more prepared, confident, and authentic during your speeches and presentations.
You’ll connect faster and more deeply with your audience members and be able to focus all your attention on them.
Your message will be more impactful, meaningful, and powerful.
Almost every single HEROIC Performance Faculty member has a Masters of Fine Arts from prestigious institutions like NYU's Graduate Acting Program and the Yale School of Drama. Each one has years of professional experience performing on stage and on screen.
Some have even written and directed their own plays, and one is a voice actor who’s worked with Disney, Netflix, and Nickelodeon. They’re award-winning actors who have performed and acted on Broadway, TV, and film. Â
Here at HEROIC, you learn from the best performers and speakers. The ones who’ve done the deep learning themselves.
When you learn from performers who’ve studied the art of performance, they’ll teach you not just how to make it work, but why it works—so you can repeat it over and over again, for every speech you perform.
Every student in GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery is part of a rehearsal group. You’ll meet with your rehearsal group during the in-person sessions and virtually.
You’ll experience support, encouragement, and improvement like never before as you rehearse your speech with a group of speakers just like you.
We’ll teach you how to ask for feedback, and how to give effective feedback to your fellow students. You’ll learn how to ask specific questions that allow you to realize what you need to improve for your performance.
In fact, we’ll even guide your rehearsal group sessions and show you what to focus on, what to ask, and how to improve.
Rehearsal groups are one of the most valuable tools you’ll get during GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery, and they’re key to your transformation from speaker to performer.
Most people get nervous when making big choices. They prefer to stay in their comfort zone. They prefer to stick to what’s working, even if they know deep down that they can be better.
The issue for most people is that they are making small choices that get them small results. Small commitments lead to small improvements.
We’ve all made small choices. But when we do, deep down we dream of making big choices.
Today, you can.
You can start making big commitments. You can start taking big risks. You can start making big choices.
If you do, you’ll see transformational results.
You’ll revolutionize your stage presence. You’ll transform your performance skills. You’ll surprise and delight audiences across the nation. You’ll create a reliable, entertaining performance that works every time.
It all starts here, at HEROIC.
It’s all here—everything you need to become a world-class performer.
When you rehearse your speech like a performer, you’ll know your speech so well that you’ll be able to focus all your attention on your audience—and be deeply present on stage. You'll connect faster and make a bigger impact. And you'll be a better speaker... guaranteed.
Transform the way you speak. Forever.
Own any and every stage.
Experience transformation in your rehearsal group.
Master the art of combining insight and entertainment, and discover what it takes to perform a speech that works every single time.
Your performance will be entertaining, powerful, emotion-packed, and life-changing. And you'll captivate your audience, for every second of your speech.
Schedule a call with a HEROIC Advisor today and learn how to transform your performance, your career, and your life—the performer’s way.
“They did it, and you can too.”
Here's what HEROIC alumni have to say about GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery.
Schedule a call with a HEROIC Advisor today and learn how to transform your performance, your career, and your life—the performer’s way.
Your Journey Begins Here.
Each year, HEROIC hosts four GRAD | Stage Performance Mastery Programs. In each cohort, we only accept 50 students, and spots fill up fast.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Every student will perform 4 minutes and 30 seconds of their speech in both the second and third in-person sessions. They will get personalized feedback and notes from HEROIC Performance Coaches about their performance. Failure to attend the in-person sessions could disqualify you from personalized performance coaching.
No, this program is a mix of both virtual, independent study, and in-person aspects. You will come to the HEROIC campus in Lambertville, NJ for 3 distinct 3-day sessions over the course of 3 months. During the weeks in between the in-person sessions, there will be virtual masterclasses and virtual rehearsal group sessions.
Rehearsal is key to a transformational performance. And a script is key to an effective rehearsal process. Without a script, it’s very difficult to create a performance that you can repeat and reliably perform every time. With a rehearsal-ready script and HEROIC’s 7-Step Rehearsal Process, giving your speech is truly the easiest part of all.
Don’t have a rehearsal-ready script? Check out GRAD | Speech Writing Mastery to discover how to craft a speech that moves audiences to feel, think, and act differently.
You’ll be divided into small rehearsal groups with 4-5 other students in your cohort. These rehearsal groups are designed for you to be able to perform parts of your speech in front of other people and get feedback (we’ll teach you all about what to ask for and how to give feedback appropriately during the program). Rehearsal groups are a valuable asset that helps you make your speech audience-ready.
Yes! Each day on campus, you’ll be provided a meal. We will make sure that the meal provided aligns with your allergy and dietary needs.
Schedule a call with a HEROIC Advisor today and learn how to transform your performance, your career, and your life—the performer’s way.
Meet Your Faculty
Our masters-level writing, performance, and business faculty show you how to craft and rehearse a performance that's more powerful, more theatrical, and more effective.