Testimonials

"Gilda is the ultimate professional coach.  She excels in providing a foundation of techniques and skills combined with building confidence to succeed."

"In working with Gilda, I found her to be extremely knowledgeable, insightful and effective. She expertly targeted what I needed to adjust, provided resources for growth and helped me create a plan for next steps. I feel more confident, focused and energized! "

"I've seen Gilda in action both as a featured speaker and event emcee and she is top notch! Whether she is serving as a dynamic emcee at a large, live event or sharing communication skills strategies in a virtual classroom with university students, she exemplifies the public speaking best practices that I've learned in my thirty years as a broadcast journalist. Her expertise is matched by her energy and ability to engage an audience. I highly recommend Gilda for your next event!"

"Gilda presented "Finding Your Voice, Making it Matter" for our training.  She shared practical, invaluable suggestions about improving their communication and presentation skills that helped them to create and deliver a clear, concise and compelling message.   The students raved about her so much that we had to bring her back for future workshops. She is so FABULOUS and we are SO lucky to have her as a beloved member of our CSYale faculty!"

“Gilda was a great resource in developing my presentation skills. She simplifies things so that they can easily be remembered and implemented. Not only that, she is an absolute pleasure to work with. If you are looking for an organized, honest coach, look no further. You will see results!”

Congratulations on the excellent presentation given at the SNEC conference. Presentation skills are so basic to what a project manager does it continues to amaze me that there is so little emphasis on such a critical PM tool. Your presentation was very entertaining as well as educational – the best kind! Thank you for your excellent contribution to the conference attendees.”

"Gilda was fabulous! Lots of great facts and funny, memorable delivery. Even though the presentation was virtual, it was just as effective! Definitely the highlight of the day and presentations."

Gilda Bonanno’s webinar on Executive Presence for Leaders: Communicating with Confidence, Competence and Composure for the Manhattanville School of Business Women’s Leadership Institute was truly invaluable. Gilda herself is an example of a great communicator. Her webinar had excellent content and the presentation was organized and enjoyable. I would highly recommend Gilda for any communication training.”

"As a seasoned executive, I have given many presentations but I knew I needed help in refining my message to make it more strategic and delivering it with confidence. Gilda walked me through a clear, easy-to-follow process for creating and practicing a presentation.

After working with Gilda, I know how to design and confidently deliver a presentation that connects with the audience and communicates my message, whether I am speaking at award presentations, soliciting contributions from corporate donors or providing education to my team. I highly recommend her."

“I highly recommend the talented Gilda to you! Gilda led a fun team building event for our GE Capital Controllership team. The belly laughs we all had at the event were a great way to let off steam after a challenging business quarter. She employed techniques used in improvisational comedy to engage the team, challenge them to ‘think outside the box’ and most importantly, let their hair down and laugh! Under the umbrella of good-natured fun, the team picked up subtle negotiation skills, as presented in Gilda’s “Yes, and...” improv exercise, and met that important ‘thinking on your feet’ challenge. Thanks, Gilda!”

“It was an absolute pleasure having alumna Gilda Bonanno present her workshop on “How to Schmooze” with our institution’s alumni. Her training and coaching credentials and her ability to engage a diverse audience with a wide range of professions provided a wealth of knowledge and opportunities for our participants to actively learn and craft their networking skills.”

"Gilda is an excellent resource for our employee skill building and development. We first partnered with her to teach our team how to develop and deliver more effective, clear and concise presentations. The results were so good that we brought her back to do more presentation skills training with another group of employees and also our finance team which was preparing to present overseas to International customers and colleagues."