Communications Training

Communicate with confidence. Lead under pressure.

Crushed Lime Media delivers world-class training in media relations, strategic communications, crisis management, and message development — for professionals who need to perform when it counts.

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About our training

Real skills. Real scenarios. Real results.

Our programs are built for public and private sector executives, diplomatic officers, and communications professionals who face the media, manage crises, and shape policy. Every workshop is hands-on, practical, and led by seasoned practitioners.

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Media Relations

Build productive relationships with journalists. Control your narrative and drive coverage that serves your goals.

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Public Speaking

Prepare participants to deliver informative and persuasive messages with confidence across a range of speaking occasions.

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Message Development

Build language your audiences remember, trust, and act on — from talking points to full frameworks.

CLM Workshops 2025

Programs built to perform.

From two-hour essentials to full-day intensives, every CLM workshop delivers hands-on practice, real-world scenarios, filmed exercises, and expert individual feedback.

Full Day
Storytelling Workshop

Develops essential persuasive skills so participants can anticipate and meet audience needs while enhancing or changing understanding of issues or situations.

Best taken after the Media Skills or Public Speaking Workshop.
Full Day
Media Skills Workshop

Introduces participants to working with media across a variety of situations. Includes essential media management skills with individual feedback through filmed practice and examples.

Standalone — prior experience with key messaging is always welcome.
Full Day
Public Speaking & Presentation Skills

Prepares participants for a range of public speaking and presentation opportunities through effective verbal and nonverbal delivery techniques geared to specific audiences.

Standalone — prior media skills experience is always welcome.
Half Day
Key Messaging Workshop

Delivers critical messaging skills through the Key Message House framework. Participants learn to develop and support messaging that is clear, consistent, and credible.

Standalone — a strong next step after Issues Management & Governance.
2 Hours
Issues Management & Governance

Develops strong issues management practices including robust Issues & Answers documentation, document governance, and institutional memory for consistent organizational messaging.

Standalone — no prior experience required.
Full Day
Essential Communications Strategies & Media Skills

An interactive workshop updating practitioners on best-practice media engagement, integrated media strategies, and relationship-building — through facilitated discussion, video segments, and real-life case studies.

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Meet the trainers

Experience you can trust.

Our trainers bring decades of frontline experience — from global newsrooms to corporate boardrooms — to every workshop.

Whitney Foard Small
Whitney Foard Small
Lead Trainer & Founder

With decades of global experience, Whitney has deep expertise in strategic media relations. An experienced strategist equally at home in corporate communication and public affairs, she runs campaigns with attention to detail and deep discipline in integration, measurement, and execution.

In addition to leading roles with Ford Motor Company, Walt Disney, and Burson-Marsteller, Whitney has extensive experience as a global trainer, focusing on communication skills, including crisis and issues management, media training, messaging development, measurement, and analysis. She has lectured on strategic communications at universities and corporations, including Chulalongkorn, Tsinghua, and McKinsey & Company. An English and Mandarin speaker, she is now improving her Thai. In her spare time, she publishes Beebliome ebooks for teen readers.

Nat Sumon
Nat Sumon
Senior Trainer — Journalist & Documentary Producer

Nat is a long-term journalist and documentary producer for many international media organizations, including Al Jazeera, Sky News, Channel 4, Deutsche Welle, NBC News, SBS Dateline, and Channel News Asia. She covers various news issues, including political, environmental, social, human-made, and natural disasters.

Nat has rich experience in capacity building and media training. She has worked with international NGOs such as Peace Corps Thailand, the International Organization for Migration, and the International Rescue Committee.

What participants say

Heard from the room.

Feedback from public and private sector leaders and communications professionals who have attended CLM workshops.

Very useful and informative, a lot of great tips and observations were given. I could definitely use this knowledge to improve my skills. The lecturer, Whitney, is very professional and has immense experience; she is able to enhance our understanding to deal with the press.

Very useful and dedicated, gives a chance to practice, and wonderful materials and videos.

Excellent with laying the foundation of the beginning and class exercises, learned a lot both in theory and practice, the right balance between both.

Awesome. It is the first time I learned all the techniques of giving an interview and dealing with the media. I love the idea of separating into small groups so that we can practice. The example clips are all well explained and very up to date. This session is overall useful and necessary for our diplomatic career, regardless of all ranks.

It was very useful to our job as head of mission — we are always encountering immediate interviews without prior notice or preparation. Knowing key elements that can make interviews sound credible and professional is important.

The trainer/lecturer, Ms. Whitney, is able to conceptualize how we handle the media interview coverage from A to Z. Useful tips and tools are very useful for senior officials — not just diplomatic officers, but also executive officers of the Government.

Ms. Whitney and her team are excellent. They know exactly how to guide us with many good examples and explain to us clearly, simply, and in a friendly way. Thank you very much for your excellent job!

It really helped people with public speaking, which is a key element in our work. It makes us able to listen, channel our thoughts, and deliver our message thoughtfully and more clearly without run-arounds.

Development of key message house, awareness of the body language, the exercise and the presentation as a team was very interesting and challenging.

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Crushed Lime Media
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