Dallas Leigh-Martene

Dallas Leigh-Martene
Dallas Leigh-MarteneLead Trainer / Writer

Dallas Leigh-Martene

Dallas is a United Kingdom public speaking champion and multi award-winning presentation skills trainer, speech writer and leadership coach.

She has successfully trained almost 25,000 people including senior leaders within organisations such as the House of Commons, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Berkshire Hathaway, Citi, Barclays, EY, Coutts, Legal & General, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Freshfields and Google.

Dallas has coached the UK and Ireland Communicator of the Year, the London Public Speaking Champion and the Australian Emerging Leader of the Year. She’s also the winning trainer of one of the world’s largest public speaking competitions (32,000+ participants) 3 times in 4 years.

Speeches she has written have been delivered at some of the world’s most important platforms including: The World Economic Forum in Davos, The United Kingdom Houses of Parliament and the European Union.

Prior to establishing her own business Dallas ran the first ever Shell global speaker programme including training and speech writing for senior managers throughout the world.

She is a qualified journalist who holds a MSc from the London School of Economics, a diploma in both corporate and personal coaching and membership of the prestigious Professional Speakers Association.

Dallas provides training across the globe and has worked in Great Britain, the United States, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Gibraltar, Holland, Belgium, China, Singapore, Dubai, Suriname, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa.