Daniel Kingsley is the Founding Director of Presence Training and the developer of The Presence Method™, a structured approach to helping leaders and speakers access a deeper, more grounded way of operating.

His work centres on one conviction: that the quality of our leadership and communication depends less on technique than on the internal state we are operating from. And that state can be trained.

Background

Before founding Presence Training in 2012, Daniel practised as a barrister for fifteen years, speaking regularly in court and to groups large and small, including making addresses to the UN Human Rights Council.

It was during this period that he began exploring embodiment and awareness practices, initially as a way of navigating the pressures of legal life. What started as a practical response to stress became, over time, a path in itself – one he soon found more compelling than the law.

Since around 2005, Daniel has studied and practised in this territory continuously, working with a small number of teachers whose influence is woven directly into The Presence Method™. The most significant of these is Adam Bradpiece, whose teaching on the nature of Presence forms the largest single foundation of Daniel’s work. He has also studied with Fanny Behrens and Colin Harrison of Movement of Being, who are themselves senior students of Adam’s, and has drawn on the work of embodiment teacher Wendy Palmer, whose Presence/Personality distinction features in his teaching.

Daniel is a certified Relational Presence® facilitator, trained in the methodology originated by Lee Glickstein, which informs the relational dimension of his work.

The work today

Daniel leads public speaking courses, executive coaching and leadership programmes in London and beyond, also working online over Zoom and Teams. He works with individuals, senior leaders and organisations across a wide variety of sectors. Since founding Presence Training he has trained thousands of participants through open workshops and delivered in-house programmes for organisations ranging from NGOs and public authorities to global corporations.

Alongside his professional work, Daniel maintains a deep personal interest in Presence – in understanding it more fully and in living from that place himself. He writes regularly about these ideas on the Presence Training blog.

Daniel lives in North London.

Email: daniel@presencetraining.co.uk  Phone: 020 7112 9194