Javier Bernad

Javier Bernad is the founder of Speak & Span, a training center in public speaking skills. Javier has been training managers and politicians on how to be fantastic presenters since 1998. Speak & Span offers in-company and personal training sessions to clients such as Airbus, Procter & Gamble, HP, KPMG, Bain & Company, Coca-Cola, Credit Suisse, Amundi, Securitas Direct, Pfizer, or NH Hotel Group. He has trained over 8,000 individuals and analyzed more than 25,000 recordings of their presentations.

Javier’s mission is to help managers break their barriers to public speaking. We can all become more confident, dynamic, and persuasive presenters, to shine in our professional and personal lives.

Before launching Speak & Span, Javier was managing director of MediaCom España, one of the largest worldwide advertising media planning agencies, part of the WPP group. He was previously managing director of MEC (now Wavemaker), an advertising media planning agency owned by the same group, and has held other management positions at FMCG companies like Procter & Gamble and BAT. Javier coaches the speakers at TEDx Cibeles events in Madrid.

He has published the book Alto y Claro, los Diez Principios para Hablar en Público con Seguridad, con Mensaje y con Entusiasmo, and the book El Carisma Hablando en Público: Pasión, Poder, Proximidad y Positividad. Una Historia del Carisma con Aplicación Práctica al Liderazgo. Javier writes on public speaking in the largest circulating Spanish financial newspaper, Expansión: Hablando en público. He is a PADI Australia diving instructor, a mountain biking fanatic, and an avid photographer. He is married with three kids and lives in Madrid.

Corporate Experience

• Managing director, MediaCom (WPP)

• Managing director, Mediaedge:Cia (WPP)

• Marketing director, Canariense de Tabacos

• Brand manager, British American Tobacco

• Purchasing manager, assistant brand manager, P&G

Academic Experience

• Adjunct professor, IE, since 2011

• Professor, UEM, 2009 - 2019

Academic Background

• Ph.D. in communication, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2018

• Master in corporate communication, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 2014

• Bachelor in business administration, ICADE E-3, Madrid, 1986

• Bachelor in law, ICADE E-3, Madrid, 1985

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