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Think creatively. Listen and converse. We buy the voice first — being heard from the back row — then give it something to carry.
KIDS 9–12
Think.Speak.Lead.
In-person sessions. Public speaking & confidence classes for kids 9–12.
8 weeks2 hours per class4 hours per weekendSmall batchesOne focused 9–12 groupIn the room, not on a screen
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Why it matters
Is your child holding back?
Many children have wonderful ideas but find it hard to share them. Does your child:
- Hold back from going first, even when they know the answer?
- Know what they think, but not how to put it?
- Talk over people — or wait so long the moment passes?
- Miss what was actually asked, and answer something else?
Good news: confidence is a skill. It grows with practice, play and encouragement.
What they build
Skills that help children at school, with friends, and long after.
CommunicationBeing understood the first time
Core confidenceStanding up without dread
Critical & creative thinkingHaving a view, and a reason for it
LeadershipSpeaking so a group will follow
A child does not get confident and then speak. A child speaks, survives it, and becomes confident — so every session puts every child on their feet, and sends them back to their seat having succeeded at something they can name.
How it works
Weeks 1–3 · Stage one
Weeks 4–6 · Stage two
Weeks 7–8 · Stage three
From the classroom to the boardroom
Eight weeks, three stages, one visible arc. The room gets bigger and the audience gets realer each time — and nobody is moved on before they are ready for it.
Stage
Tell stories. Speak up. Discuss in groups. Structure stops being a worksheet and becomes something they can stand behind.
Boardroom
Meet the Pros, then Presentation Day. Working professionals listen to them — and then a room full of parents does.
The eight weeks
What actually happens, week by week
Each class runs two hours, and there are two classes every weekend — four hours a week in the room. In a small batch each child gets ten to fourteen separate speaking turns in a class; the repetitions are the product, not a polished demonstration by a coach.
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Classroom
Where Ideas Come From
No structures yet. The six PVLEGS speaking powers — poise, voice, life, eye contact, gestures, speed — the Rule of Three, and four ways to open. First we make sure every child can be heard.
2
Classroom
The OREO
Opinion, Reason, Example, Opinion. The spine of the whole programme, introduced early enough to be returned to in every single week that follows.
3
Classroom
Argue It Or Explain It
PREP — the OREO done live, with no time to think — and T–MAES–A, the structure for when you have something to explain rather than something to argue. Knowing which job needs which tool is the lesson.
4
Stage
True Stories
The Pixar Story Spine and STAR. A true story from their own life, built to a shape so it lands — and so it can be told again without falling apart.
5
Stage
Built To Be Heard
Hook → Three → Handover. Problem and solution. Four more openings, so a child has a way to start that is theirs and not the one everybody uses.
6
Stage
Talking Together
Group discussion, where listening counts as much as talking. Then, Now, Next — and the Bridge: answering the person who just spoke instead of waiting your turn to perform.
7
Boardroom
Meet the Pros
Working professionals come into the room. Each child shares a point of view with them and hears, first-hand, about the world of work. Educate · Inspire · Inform — what do you want this room to do with your idea?
8
Boardroom
Presentation Day
Nothing new is taught. Every child presents an idea that is theirs, to a room of parents. You will be in the room for it.
What makes us different
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Learning that feels like play
Creative expression from day 1
Imagination first, so every child finds their own voice
Real-world topics
Sports, global news, technology and geography, kept age-appropriate
Tech-infused sessions
AI-powered speech recording, feedback and vocabulary check
Group discussions
Sharing views, listening and thinking together
Meet the Pros session
Children share their point of view with professionals and hear about the world of work
Fun, interactive and supportive
A safe space to try, make mistakes and grow
What they leave owning
Nine techniques your child can name at the dinner table
We hand a child a named, reusable structure and they borrow its confidence until they have their own. A child who can say “I used OREO” owns something. A child who was told “that was lovely” owns nothing. Ask them — this is checkable.
OREO — opinion, reason, example, opinion
PREP — thinking on your feet
T–MAES–A — explaining, not arguing
The Magic Three
The Pixar Story Spine
STAR
Hook → Three → Handover
All six PVLEGS powers, by name
Educate · Inspire · Inform
Five or more openings they can perform on request
Every framework we teach is an established method in general educational use. We teach them by name and credit them as such — none of them is a Little Podium invention.
Meet your coaches
Chief Mentor & Founding Patron
Co-Founder & Programme Director
Co-Founder & Head Coach
Lead Faculty
Real pros. Kid-friendly fun.
The people teaching your eleven-year-old have stood in front of school assemblies, global boardrooms and a TEDx stage. In a small batch, they are people you will actually meet — not a name on a brochure.
Vandana Goel
35+ years shaping young minds
Vidhu Aggarwal
Management consultant, global firm · Toastmasters speaker
Priyanka Sharma
Management consultant, global firm · Toastmasters speaker
Meenakshi Gautam
TEDx speaker
“We don’t teach children to be louder. We help them become more confident in expressing who they are.”The standard we hold everything against
The practical details
Fee, per child, for the full 8 weeks
₹8,000 all taxes included
Dates, fees and what is included
- Ages
- 9–12
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Each class
- 2 hours
- Each weekend
- 4 hours
- Eight weeks of in-person classes in one focused 9–12 group, kept deliberately small
- Individual feedback for your child in every single class
- AI speech recording and feedback, so the change can be heard, not just described
- All session materials, activity cards and take-home practice
- The Meet the Pros session in week seven
- Presentation Day in week eight, with parents in the room
New batches open through the year, and we keep each one small on purpose — the batch size is the product. Tell us your child’s age and we’ll send you the next start date, the weekend timings and the venue. When a batch fills, we give you the date of the next one rather than add a chair.
Questions parents ask
Before you decide
My child is very shy. Is this right for them?
That is exactly who this is for. The children who are already putting their hand up don’t need us. The ones who have plenty to say and can’t get it out — that is who we built this for.
Nobody gets pushed. The first weeks aren’t speaking at all; they are creative work, games, listening, and talking in twos and threes. A child can sit and watch for most of a first session if that is where they are, and that is completely fine. A quiet child taking three weeks before they say something to the whole group is a perfectly normal way to do this.
If your child is quiet by nature, they will probably stay quiet by nature. They will just stop being stuck.
How is this different from a drama or theatre class?
Drama is wonderful for children — please keep it. It is doing a different job. Drama teaches a child to perform: to take on a character, learn lines, play a part. This is almost the opposite. We teach a child to be themselves in front of people — their own opinion, their own words, no script.
That is why the programme ends the way it does. In weeks seven and eight they meet working professionals and share their own point of view, then present to a room of parents. There is no character to hide behind.
The other practical difference: in a school play, the confident children get the lines. In a small batch, every child speaks every single week.
What does the fee actually buy?
₹8,000 for the full eight weeks, all taxes included. That is sixteen classes and thirty-two hours in the room, so a little over ₹250 an hour.
What that buys is the size of the room. Your child is with a handful of children, not thirty, and gets individual feedback in every class. If we doubled the batch size we could charge less again — it would then be the class you have already seen everywhere else.
And it buys who is standing in front of them: a mentor with thirty-five years shaping young minds, two management consultants from global firms who are both Toastmasters speakers, and a TEDx speaker. Not a facilitator you will never meet.
Will my child be made to perform before they are ready?
No. The arc is deliberate — classroom, then stage, then boardroom — and each step is smaller than it looks from the outside. A child speaks to one other child before they speak to three, and to three before they speak to the room.
Presentation Day in week eight is the one fixed moment, and the seven weeks before it exist to make it a formality rather than an ordeal.
Will this actually work?
Here is what we promise, precisely: in eight weeks, your child will stand in front of a room of adults and share an idea that is theirs. We promise the room, the practice and the people. The courage is theirs — and we will make sure they are ready for it.
We will not promise you a personality change, a prize or a marks improvement, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What you can check is concrete: ask your child to explain OREO at dinner in week three, and watch Presentation Day in week eight.
Eight weeks is a commitment. What if it isn’t right for him?
Eight weeks is the shortest honest version of this. Three or four sessions would get a child comfortable in the room and then stop before anything was built on it.
The structure is also the reason it works for a reluctant child: the first three weeks ask almost nothing of him publicly. If something isn’t working, tell us in week two — we would far rather have that conversation than have him sit through six more weekends.
My child is already confident. Is there anything here for them?
Usually yes, and it is a different thing. A confident child is often a fluent child who has never been given a structure — they can talk for three minutes and land nothing.
What they get here is shape: a named way to build an argument, a story spine, a way to open, and the harder skill of a group discussion where listening counts as much as talking. The Meet the Pros session is also a genuinely new audience for a child who is used to being the confident one in a familiar room.
My child is just outside 9–12. Can they join?
We would rather be straight with you. We run one focused 9–12 group, and a child who would be the youngest or oldest by more than a year tends not to get much out of it.
Tell us their age and where they sit in their school year, and we will either say yes or take your number and come back to you when a group that fits opens. We won’t stretch the range to fill a seat.
Book a session
Give your child the confidence to think, speak and lead. Tell us your child’s age and we’ll send you the next batch dates, timings and venue.
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