Training & Coaching

"HSA activists are very pleased with the public speaking workshops presented by NOW. They are well presented and organized and offer excellent flow and variety which help keep the sessions fresh and stimulating. The presenters are flexible and skilled at working with new members, and activists with years of experience."

~Leila Lolua, Education Coordinator, Health Sciences Association of BC

NOW’s training sessions are provocative, lively and engaging. Our sessions are customized for you and constantly refined and improved based on client feedback and new techniques...taken from both the world of advertising and politics. We coach individual staff communicators, train groups or work one-on-one with spokespeople. Our training aims to build ongoing communications capacity in our clients.

Internationally, organizations have asked NOW to share our communications expertise with political parties in emerging democracies. Members of our team have been in Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Palestine, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.  We’ve been honoured — and humbled — to work with incredible people from diverse parties committed to strengthening the democratic process.

NOW has developed particular expertise in working with women leaders — to help them build their unique strengths as communicators.

Call us to put together a one-on-one coaching or group training session, or to book a speaker for a key event. 

"NOW's presenters were dynamic, spoke without pretense and shared their wealth of knowledge in ways that left students feeling empowered."

~Steve Rosenberg, Program Director, Pull Focus Films

Existing workshops

  • Persuade me: On-camera persuasion, message and media training for spokespeople
  • What is a message... and why do I need one?
  • Into their heads: Understanding your audience and how they process messages
  • Finding your voice: Powerful communications for women leaders
  • Social marketing now: Best practises in social change marketing
  • Always on message! Use advertising techniques to communicate effectively in everything you do
  • Numbers don't lie: Opinion research and why we need it

Team NOW

Carrie Ann Barlow -

Carrie Ann Barlow

“The smallest changes in how a media buy is put together can make a real difference to its overall impact. Paying attention to the details, and understanding how they affect each other, is the key to developing efficient and successful campaigns.” Read more »