CONTINUING EDUCATION

PRESENTING WITH CONFIDENCE
AND CREDIBILITY

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Essential Skills for Working Professionals

Presenting With Confidence and Credibility

Whether you are leading meetings with executives, staff, or clients, or making speeches to professional organizations or community groups, your ability to communicate with clarity and confidence directly influences successful message delivery.

This interactive course equips professionals with practical techniques to manage presentation anxiety, confidently deliver compelling messages, and design engaging PowerPoint presentations and speeches.

Participants will be able to immediately apply the skills learned.

Learning Outcomes

1
Apply easy-to-adopt methods to manage presentation concerns.
2
Organize ideas into clear, audience-centered, compelling, and persuasive messages.
3
Design presentation content that sustains attention and reinforces key messages.
4
Use voice, body language, pacing, and presence to deliver successful presentations.
5
Respond to questions and audience interactions with credibility and poise.

Program at a Glance

  • Instructor: Art Samansky
  • Format: In-Person
  • Schedule: Thursdays, October 1, 8, and 15, 2026
    6:00-8:00 p.m.
  • Tuition: $175
  • Duration: Three weeks; six instructional hours
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Art Samansky, instructor for Presenting With Confidence and Credibility
Meet Your Instructor

Art Samansky

Art Samansky is the principal of The Samansky Group, a Long Island-based corporate communications consulting firm.

He has trained executives and other professionals across a variety of disciplines in presentation, speech, and media skills for nearly 60 years through his corporate communications and consulting roles. He also developed two proprietary coaching programs: Power-Speak© presentation and speech training and In-Control© media training.

Before forming The Samansky Group in late 2000, Art held communications positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Stock Exchange, Securities Industry Association, HSBC Americas, and Stern & Co.

He began his career as a business and financial reporter in New York City at the New York World-Telegram & Sun/World Journal Tribune and later served as a copyeditor at AP-Dow Jones News Service. He also taught Business Presentation Skills and Business Communications as an adjunct instructor in the School of Business at SUNY at Old Westbury.

Art earned a Master of Arts degree in 1977 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, both from New York University's evening division.

Three Interactive Sessions

Course Schedule

Session 1 — October 1

The Basics Behind a Strong Presentation

  • Alleviating concerns about public speaking.
  • Reviewing the traits of good speakers.
  • Exploring the keys to successful message delivery.
  • Reviewing key components of informative commentary.
  • Outlining key steps to writing speeches and PowerPoint presentations.
Session 2 — October 8

Getting Ready for Showtime

  • Writing speeches and PowerPoint presentations (continued).
  • Formatting speeches and PowerPoint presentations, including text and charts.
  • Standing and delivering.
    • Using a microphone.
    • Dress considerations.
Session 3 — October 15

Influencing the Audience

  • Handling the question-and-answer session.
  • Exploring techniques for persuasive presentations.
  • Understanding protocols for remotecast talks.
Participant presentation: Each participant will deliver a five-minute PowerPoint presentation to the group using a topic of their choice and will take a few questions from the audience.