Jayne Constantinis - Jayne Constantinis - Trainer, Presenter, Voice-over

Jayne Constantinis – Trainer, Speaker, Presenter, Voice-over

Jayne has a unique and unusual range of experience. It includes live announcing on BBC TV; business reporting on BBC World; fronting corporate programmes for blue-chip companies; moderating and speaking at live events; training individuals and groups to be confident communicators/speakers/presenters.

Her BBC TV series on Mexico was nominated for a BAFTA; voice-over credits include Sony and Channel 4 and she has written for Condé Nast Traveller and Good Housekeeping. She learned journalism at the LCP; has an acting diploma from the Royal Academy of Music and a Modern Languages degree from Cambridge. Several years working in branding and financial PR agencies and in an in-house communications role for a law firm make her especially valuable to corporate clients.

Professional
Inspiring
Flexible
Attention to detail
Adds value
Handles complex subjects
Cool under pressure
Safe pair of hands
Takes direction well
Empathetic
“Warm, intelligent, believable” – BBC audience research

Campaigning to encourage the world to talk less and listen more.

Jayne made a big contribution to the success of our events. She was extremely professional in ensuring the days ran smoothly and to time. Jayne has excellent communication skills and was able to build a rapport with each audience and enable people to feel more engaged.

Clare Stafford

Department of Health

Jayne is perceptive, intelligent, always prepared, highly professional, great with clients and committed. Add “fun” to the list and I hope under-recommendation has become impossible.

Christopher Slade

Head of Training and Live Events, Twofour Group

Jayne is a high-class communications trainer. She oozes gravitas and personability herself and willingly shares all the tricks of her long career as a frontline presenter. Peppered with anecdotes and props to help embed her teaching, you will leave a session with Jayne ready and confident to start communicating with more presence immediately.

Cara Moore

Executive and Life Coach

Thank you so much for the incredible session yesterday. You truly are amazing at what you do, and I am so grateful for the transformation made in such a short space of time.

PR professional

Thanks so much for your brilliant support. It has made a massive difference.

Global leader, sustainability

I would honestly say it was the most useful communication training I have ever done.

C suite exec, pharmaceutical sector

As always you were absolutely brilliant. The guests I spoke to were delighted with what you covered, you added such value to the event

Event organiser, financial services

“In comparison with your award winning voice over and presenting work these corporate gigs may be a tad mundane but your professionalism and enthusiasm carried us through and the client seemed very happy. So they should – you were awesome.”

Tony Robinson OBE

micro business specialist

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Flying by the seat of your pants – ad libbing with confidence and skill

December 1, 2023

In my last post I discussed the issue of speaking off the cuff, the fear many people have of losing control, and the fact that technology hasn’t helped us grow our confidence muscle. It’s the topic most often raised in my training room, by people of all levels of seniority, in all sectors. There are tips on preparation and rehearsal; banishing perfectionism and desensitising ourselves to ad libbing. Here’s another nugget – a magical word. Several. When used in response to a challenge or a tricky, unexpected question, it creates the illusion of ordered thinking, structure and control. You’ll look...

Stacking the dishwasher can make us better at ad libbing…

August 29, 2023

I spent some of the bank holiday (quite a lot of it actually) sorting my kitchen cupboards. There was a lot of rationalisation to be done. For example, I discovered three half-empty jars of garam masala (BTW what even is that????). Now there’s one full jar. The contents of several bags of self-raising flour are now gloriously combined, and a random collection of water bottles has been transformed into a shelf of beauty, as you see in the ‘photo above. You may have deduced that I am slightly controlling or, with a more positive spin, I have good attention to...

Careful not to mistake an innocent for a traitor – the challenge of online communication

May 7, 2023

One of the most interesting aspects of the excellent BBC TV series Traitors, apart from Claudia Winkleman’s eye liner, was the inability of the contestants to read each other. Time and again we witnessed them analysing their fellow ‘guests’ and getting it wrong. They repeatedly misinterpreted body language, comments and behaviour. They were in a state of high alert, they were being hyper sensitive and observant and still they came to the wrong conclusions. On numerous occasions. It reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers in which he also explores how human beings are so often so bad...

Why the Victoria Line might not be the best place to display your dirty undies……

February 1, 2023

Last Saturday, in the space of five hours, I witnessed three unusual events. Three deeply private conversations conducted in public. The first was in a packed tube carriage. A young couple were engrossed in a heated argument about his (alleged) lack of empathy in the relationship. The girl was upset and angry. He remained mostly silent, and was clearly in a state of excruciating embarrassment. Later that afternoon I cycled past a middle-aged man and his son who were having a forthright discussion while walking across Clapham common. As I pedalled by, the dad was saying “And why is it...

The most precious Christmas gift of all – no wrapping required (it’s not a scented candle)

December 4, 2022

I’m going Christmas shopping today. On my list are a variety of gifts including Ferrero Rochers, a suitcase, a kettle, posh pants and a onesie. Obvs also a brace of scented candles. I can’t wait to see the faces of the recipients when they open them. These are things I know they want because I’ve been listening out all year for small references to coveted items (admittedly nobody ever mentioned the candles but who can resist the subtle aromas of pomegranate and cardamom????). But there’s one gift I want to give everyone this year, even people I won’t ever play...

Inclusive and effective communication – we need to learn to ‘read the air’

September 25, 2022

I’ve just finished reading Erin Meyer’s fabulous book, The Culture Map (https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-culture-map/erin-meyer/9781610392761) and I wanted to share some of its content with you because she’s opened my eyes to some surprising and immensely useful tools which can help us all communicate more effectively and more inclusively. Meyer is an INSEAD professor. Her ideas on cross cultural communication draw on three decades living and working around the globe. She’s identified the differences which exist between cultures in 8 areas – general communication, giving feedback, persuading, leading, decision making, trust, disagreeing and scheduling. And her premise is that if we understand these...

Two ears, one mouth – a formula for dealing with challenge

August 2, 2022

July 18 was World Listening Day. A brilliant reminder of one of our most important communication skills (we do have two ears and one mouth, after all). And a prompt to heed Buddha’s excellent observation: “If your mouth is open, you’re not learning”. The concept of listening to an opposing viewpoint rather than shouting it down or silencing it is one of my passions, and it’s part of my RATIO technique. The idea for RATIO struck me in the middle of a conversation with a dear friend who happens to hold very different political views to me. She expressed an...

Authenticity and humility – the keys to an audience’s attention (and wallet)

May 28, 2022

I recently had the terrifying pleasure of MC-ing a charity fundraising ball for Home Start (Wandsworth) – a brilliant organisation which gives families a helping hand when they’re going through a rough patch. https://www.home-start.org.uk/about-us I’ve worked on corporate events for two decades so I’m ok in front of a crowd. In fact, it’s a role I relish because you can genuinely contribute to the success of a conference by making the audience feel included; by facilitating interesting conversations; by setting an appropriate tone for the occasion. At the average corporate gig, the objective of the host is to extract, solicit...

Please don’t apologise, but do say sorry…

March 31, 2022

Will Smith’s Instagram message to Chris Rock has prompted me to consider the issue of apologising and how to do it well. I believe it’s one of THE most important communication skills – one which can salvage marriages, avert wars, restore friendships and save corporate reputations. Meanwhile, the absence of an apology, or one delivered poorly, can do irreparable damage to relationships of all kinds. One of the simple communication tools for life I offer 10 year olds in schools is ‘the power of the apology’. We call it The Dog Ate My Prep. It’s a three part process: The...

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