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Progressive Training for Poise Under Pressure
THE NEW ACADEMIC REALITY DEMANDS
MORE THAN A WELL-WRITTEN PAPER
Top universities want students who not only write well, but speak well. In seminars, viva voce exams, interviews, and presentations, educators want to hear you think—with depth, precision, and authority.
Now, as professors adapt to the challenge of AI, many are relying on live speech to assess what students actually know.
The Oratory Method was created for precisely this academic reality.
It fuses classical oratory -- the art of persuasion, arrangement, and audience awareness -- with contemporary neuroscience on attention, deep learning, and performance under pressure. The result is a speaking fitness system that trains students, educators, and early-career professionals to stand and deliver when every word counts.
Developed at Middlebury College, a leading American liberal-arts institution, the programme has benefited students from the United States and around the world for over a decade.
The Oratory Method now comes to India for the first time.
The Method in Action
In his very first college class in America, Abhir Suri was surprised to hear that his final assignment would be, not a paper, but a mini-lecture at the First Year Symposium. He had spoken in public before and even had some training, but Abhir had no framework for addressing a room full of students and professors, many of whom would be strangers.
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Rather than panic, Abhir enrolled in a speaking fitness programme called Oratory Now.
What he found there changed his understanding of public speaking altogether. Oratory Now didn’t offer tricks and fixes; it trained students the way you’d train for any high-performance skill -- through a strategic progression of incremental challenges and simulations, supported by real-time coaching.
When Abhir finally stepped up to speak at the First Year Symposium, he felt ready. He knew he could quiet his body and mind -- that he could catch and hold the attention of an audience, and think clearly under pressure. He knew -- because he’d done all of these things before. His only real surprise that day was how enjoyable it could be.
This January, Abhir returns to India with the creator of the programme, Professor Dana Yeaton. Together, they will introduce educators and a select cohort of students to the training system that’s transforming how students speak, write, and think.
