Billie Shepard & Associates

Billie Shepard and Associates is a multidisciplinary team of professional communicators, actors, writers, and trainers, dedicated to helping you, as a business communicator, achieve your most effective and authentic performance as a speaker. Billie has been a presentation coach, professional actor, and acting coach for decades. As founder of Billie Shepard & Associates, she has leveraged her unique presentation training, transforming corporate executives, engineers, financial analysts, HR professionals and all types of public speakers into influential presenters and communicators. Her clients include a range of corporations such as Facebook, Uber, Intuit, Thumbtack, Genentech, Rackspace, Seiler LLP, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, Splunk, Morrison & Foerster, UCSC-Silicon Valley Extension, UC Berkeley Extension, as well as thousands of actors. Billie has appeared in lead roles in Equity productions, been featured in numerous TV productions, as well as many national and regional commercials. She holds a Masters of Theatre Arts from San Jose State University, and wrote her M.A. thesis, entitled The Actor Within: An Exploration of Present Moment Awareness in Business Presentations: on the effects of acting techniques in business presentations. HER BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: THE BILLIE SHEPARD PRESENTATION METHOD Specialties: Tech industry: Customized Speaker Training Workshops, incorporating the techniques of the Actor; through her Present Moment Awareness methodology. Corporate groups and privates.