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Empowering your people with confidence to represent your organisation in the best light.

Mentor Media Training is the UK’s only CPD‑accredited media training provider delivering face‑to‑face and e‑learning across media, crisis, presentation, social & video formats. Whether you’re facing a high‑stakes interview, a reputation challenge, or preparing your team for confident internal and external communication, we make sure you're ready.

Offering 1:1, group and online media training sessions

Media · Crisis · Presentation
Training Specialists

25+

YEARS EXPERIENCE

COURSES AVAILABLE

12+

MEDIA CONSULTANTS

30+

SECTORS TRAINED

WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE US

Proactive Communication skills for the things you want to talk about…

Reactive Communication Techniques
From reputation threat assessment to rapid response media training, we have you covered (Proactive messaging/ media training)

Futureproof communication
Not just talking to journalists: video, social, and public‑ engagement formats included.

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Tailored & practical
Real‑world scenario training rather than “one‑size‑fits‑all” sessions.

Proven with major private, public & third sector organisations
We’ve trained spokespeople at organisations from the NHS to PLCs.

Flexible formats
In‑person, online, simulation, video‑based, remote interviews and webinars.

POPULAR COURSES

Media Training
(Effective Communication)

Half‑day or full‑day sessions, individuals or groups. For in‑house video / podcast / webinar, media interview or online meeting formats.

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Crisis Training & Reputation Management

Face‑to‑face preparation, simulation, consultancy to ensure reactive or proactive readiness.

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Presentation / Video & Public Engagement

Tailored for pitches, webinars, TED‑style talks, conferences and internal communications.

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Social Media &
Online Communications Training

Building confidence in customer services, social media crisis handling, corporate messaging online.

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Things You Might Currently Be Facing

Your team speaks well internally, but when the camera’s on or under pressure, they lose clarity.
A negative story or social media spike hits, you’re unprepared, and the reputation takes a hit.
Remote/podcast/video/webinar formats feel awkward or reactive rather than coached and confident.
You’ve got strong messages but struggle to convey them succinctly under scrutiny or live pressure.
Leadership or spokespeople are brilliant in their field, but haven’t been trained for media or public engagement.

We help convert these vulnerabilities into strengths: confident, prepared voices, and aligned teams ready for whatever comes.

Strategic Media Training

Great trainers, highly engaging. I definitely feel better equipped for handling these sort of situations in the future. Definitely worth the investment and I would say it is essential for anyone in a role that may be asked to represent the force in the media. Appreciating the transferable skills is an added extra.

Chief Superintendent, Sussex Police

Dave and Rachel recently ran a strategic media training session with our senior exec team at Fairhive and it’s always a pleasure when we work with them. They are professional trainers with a dedication to helping individuals. Throughout the session they demonstrated a deep knowledge of strategic media providing an individualised training session with both local and national examples. They were able to keep the group engaged and positive and have the ability to adapt to the needs of each participant; providing constructive feedback during the recording element of the training.

Katie Ayala, Fairhive Housing, Aylesbury

An afternoon doing Media training with Dave Mason from Mentor was pure gold for me. It was fun, challenging and full of journalistic and business insight. Dave is a seasoned professional whose understanding of print, broadcast and social media is hard to fault. His real skill is to help you articulate your own story and ensure that you enter any media interview on the front foot, with an arsenal of tactics to help you. I can’t recommend him highly enough.

Professor Tansy Jessop, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education, University of Bristol

Thanks for the engaging and knowledgeable session. It was great for our senior team to have the opportunity to practice and gain feedback in a real studio setting that the Mentor Media Training team made feel very relaxed. We look forward to putting it into practice.

Jo Gillow, Head of Marketing, Bath Building Society

Crisis Training

Thank you so much for the training yesterday. It was the perfect combination of insight and practical application, brought to life through the experience, knowledge and the stories yourself and Chris shared. We all enjoyed the day and took so much from it: definitely one of the best training sessions I’ve been on.

Juliet Allister, Head of Brand and Sustainability, Cornish Mutual

Thanks to Mentor for a brilliant day of training around crisis comms. It’s amazing how comfortable you can get in front of the camera if you just follow the techniques! Really worthwhile business continuity preparation for the team.

Gemma White, Woodbridge School

Presentation

Hugely informative. Getting a ‘magic formula’ for structuring a presentation and targeting the audience was most useful. Relaxed and professional tutoring.

Jon Buck, First Vice President, ProLogis

Strategic Communication – AI in Comms Workshop

The communications team really enjoyed it and found it quite inspiring. Appreciate your time and dedication to making the session useful to us as a University. It really hit the points we wanted to.