The PASS Method, made portable.
Designed to be used. Designed to be written in. The methodology you take into every talk that comes after — included with every workshop, available standalone for anyone who wants the system.
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Most "presentation books" you can read on a flight. Three takeaways, a couple of anecdotes, and back to the airport bookshop. They don't change anything because they were never designed to be used — only consumed.
I built the Speakers Prepare handbook to be the opposite. Every page is a tool. Every chapter has worksheets you fill in for your next real talk. The PASS Method, the MASTR framework, A=EMCm, and Co1a — all of it, structured to walk you from the moment you know you have to present to the moment you walk off stage.
"This is a workbook disguised as a book. By the time you've finished it, you'll have prepared an actual talk — the one you came to it with."
I use it in every Speakers Prepare engagement. It's now available standalone.
Five sections. One system.
The Plan
How to commit to real preparation in the time you actually have. The 80/20 prep map. The mistake every untrained speaker makes in the first hour after they accept the talk.
The Analysis — MASTR
The five questions that decide whether your talk lands. Worksheets for Big Idea, Audience, Structure, Tactics, and Role. Run any future talk through this section before you write a single slide.
The Simulation — A=EMCm
How real rehearsal differs from reading slides. The four variables every simulation must train. The mindset multiplier that makes everything else compound — or collapse.
The Service — Co1a
The mindset shift. Why "concentrate on one action" is the most under-rated technique in presenting. How to use it in the 60 seconds before you walk on stage — and what it does to your nervous system.
The Toolkit
Reference templates. Pre-talk checklists. Post-talk debrief frameworks. A sharable language for giving and receiving feedback. The tools you take into every future talk.
The 80/20 of the 80/20
A single one-pager with twelve core questions. The shortest possible version of the methodology — when you have ten minutes and a talk in two hours, this is the page you reach for.
Designed to be used.
Workbook structure
Worksheets, prompts, and structured fill-ins on every chapter. You write in it. It works on you.
Sturdy production
Lay-flat binding, archival paper, the kind of object you carry with you for years rather than read once.
More than presenting
Use the frameworks for ideation and goal-setting — personally, or as a company. Clarify what you want, find your message, define how you address any audience. Dutch edition coming.
Standalone or programme
Use it on its own. Use it as the textbook for any Speakers Prepare engagement. Either way, the methodology is the same.
The full PASS system
Plan, Analyse, Simulate, Serve — all four steps, with their sub-frameworks (MASTR, A=EMCm, Co1a) fully laid out.
The 80/20 one-pager
A single bonus page — twelve questions that distil the entire methodology. When you have ten minutes, this is the page you reach for.
Every participant takes one home.
Every Speakers Prepare engagement — 1-Day Workshop, 2-Day Intensive, 1:1 Coaching, and the public crashcourses — includes the handbook for every participant.
It's used live during the session. It's annotated by the participant as they go. It leaves the room with them, written-in, dog-eared, and used as the standalone reference for every future talk they prepare.
The handbook isn't a take-away. It's the methodology, made portable.
Want a copy?
The handbook is available now. Until the public Amazon listing is live, you can email me directly for a copy — let me know your name and shipping address. Signed copies and early-supporter pricing on request.
Email Dylan to orderOr get a copy automatically when you book any Speakers Prepare workshop or coaching session.