About

I’m Sean Dwan, the Founder of Speak for Success International. I’m a highly experienced event speaker and facilitator, as well as delivering many high-profile SpeakersTrainingCamp® Workshops. And I take the fear out of people’s lives.

But it wasn’t always like that.

Having to speak in public is one of the most common top fears that people have — and that used to be me.

Many years ago, I was Best Man at my brother’s wedding, and of course I had to deliver a speech. I was petrified, and I can still remember the stress, the sweat and the terror. I stood up and said, “Thank you all for coming. And I hope you have a great day.” And I sat down.

If you’d told me then that, by 2025, I’d be not only be a highly sought public speaker but actually training other people to deliver wedding speeches, business talks and keynote addresses — well, I’d have thought you were mad. But here I am.

In the 1980s, my career took me to London in the UK, where I joined a large engineering machinery sales organisation, supplying equipment to multinationals and SMEs. After five years in London, I joined a similar company in Dublin as an Area Manager. I was later promoted to Sales Manager and finally to Sales Director.

My experience of dealing for thirty-nine years with both the corporate world and SMEs has stood me in good stead to help my clients achieve their desired results.

The memory of that wedding speech stayed with me, though, and I worked on improving my public speaking skills. This paid off, and led to me joining Toastmasters International in 2000. This is a worldwide training organisation, specialising in public speaking, presentation, leadership, facilitating, listening and interview skills. I have the honour of having been a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) since 2012, the highest recognition achievable in communication skills.

In the meantime, I founded Speak for Success International in 2009, after training in the USA as a SpeakersTrainingCamp® Certified Instructor in Public Speaking, Presentations, Wedding Speeches and Interview Skills Training. I’ve delivered workshops to a host of multinational organisations, SMEs and individuals in Ireland and worldwide, both as face-to-face and online events.

So, whether you need to give a keynote speech, a workplace presentation, a sales presentation or any other type of speech, I’ll train you to speak with confidence and enthusiasm and be the person they’ll invite back.

Become a more confident, engaging, influential and dynamic public speaker and presenter with Speak for Success International.