Future Connect: Networking Event – February
Speak Up, Stand Out – Public Speaking Skills
Thursday 6 February 2025
5.30 pm - 7.30 pm
GMT
Location: Pomme d’Or Hotel, Jersey
Pricing: Future Connect Members

Future Connect: Speak Up, Stand Out – Public Speaking Skills
Start the year on a high note by attending our first Future Connect event of 2025! Effective public speaking is a powerful skill that can transform your career, boost your confidence and help you stand out professionally. Join us for Future Connect: Speak Up, Stand Out, an engaging event designed to help you enhance your communication style, improve your presentation abilities and speak with confidence and impact.
Why Attend?
- Public speaking is an essential skill for success in any field. Whether you’re presenting to a team, leading a meeting, or speaking at an event, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively is key to making an impression and driving change.
Boost Your Confidence and Communication Skills with Performance Coach Jo Ferbrache
Boost, a Jersey-based presentation and communication training business, specialises in helping professionals at all levels communicate their messages with clarity, confidence, and impact. Whether you’re speaking in the boardroom, on stage, or in front of a camera, Boost equips you with the tools you need to enhance your performance and deliver with confidence.
This bespoke, interactive workshop is tailored to help young professionals in the finance industry prepare and ground themselves for any speaking opportunity. You’ll gain practical tips and techniques to overcome nerves, refine your message, and deliver it effectively—ensuring you stand out in any setting.
This event is perfect for professionals eager to enhance their communication skills and make their voice heard in any setting.
For more information, please contact a member of our events team.
Louise Burrows › Head of Marketing, Jersey Finance
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Louise is part of our leadership team, and has overall responsibility for leading our marketing team, incorporating brand and communications, events and digital professionals. The team promotes Jersey as an international finance centre of excellence through our globally held events, in the media world-wide and across digital platforms, in support of Jersey Finance’s overall strategy and business plan.
Louise has extensive experience in marketing gained over more than twenty years, including in financial institutions HSBC and Deutsche Bank. Prior to joining Jersey Finance’s communications team in 2020, Louise was Head of Marketing across the Crown Dependencies for a telecommunications and data centre company. Educated in Jersey, Louise holds the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Postgraduate in Marketing.

Jo Ferbrache Performance Coach, Boost
Jo Ferbrache is a Certified Physical Intelligence Coach with a wealth of experience in marketing and sales, having led teams as Managing Director of a marketing agency and in leadership roles across the hospitality and food service industries. Once held back by a fear of public speaking, Jo transformed her confidence by harnessing the power of her internal chemistry—learning to support, rather than sabotage, her performance. Today, as a keynote speaker and part of the coaching team at Boost, Jo empowers others to do the same. Through her approachable and energising style, Jo creates a supportive environment where participants can explore techniques to enhance their physiology, let go of limiting beliefs, and perform with confidence and strength. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Jo and start building the skills to communicate effectively and confidently in your career.
Agenda
Grant Thornton Limited is a leading Channel Island professional services practice. With a combined staffing strength of more than 240 people, we are the Channel Islands member of Grant Thornton International, one of the world’s leading international networks of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms.
Grant Thornton International is not a worldwide partnership. Services are delivered independently by the member firms and as a member firm within the Grant Thornton International network, Grant Thornton Limited has access to member and correspondent firms in over 145 countries, with a network of more than 56,000 employees, offering client’s specialist local knowledge, supported by international expertise and methodologies.