Chartered Toastmasters Club is a member club of Toastmasters International, formed exclusively for Chartered Accountants. We meet to sharpen the two skills a qualification never quite teaches — communication and leadership.
Most Toastmasters clubs draw members from every walk of life. Ours is different by design: membership is open to Chartered Accountants and their spouses and children, so the room always understands the world you work in.
That shared background changes the conversation. Alongside prepared speeches and impromptu practice, part of every meeting is set aside for discussion on matters of professional interest, with occasional sessions on topics of academic interest for CAs. You build confidence and you stay connected to the profession at the same time.
Like every Toastmasters club, our mission is to provide a positive, mutually supportive environment in which every member can develop their speaking and leadership skills — and with them, self-confidence and personal growth.
Prepare and deliver speeches using a structured, international learning programme, and learn to think on your feet.
Give and receive honest, constructive feedback so every speaker — and every listener — leaves a little sharper.
Take on meeting roles and club office, and carry that leadership back into your firm, your clients and public life.
Toastmasters International is a non-profit organisation founded by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley on 22 October 1924, in the basement of a YMCA in Santa Ana, California, to help people improve their public speaking and leadership skills.
A century later it spans the globe, and our club carries that mission to the Chartered Accountants of Kochi. There is a quiet symmetry in it — the movement began in a YMCA, and we meet in one too.
Chartered Toastmasters Club was chartered in 2011 in Kochi, Kerala, founded by a group of Chartered Accountants who wanted a professional, friendly space to become better communicators.
More than a decade on, the club has welcomed a long line of presidents and members, met faithfully on Friday evenings, and kept its founding promise: to help CAs speak, lead and belong.
Progress mirrors the timing lights every Toastmaster knows. You start green and steady, find your stride at amber, and finish in command.
Deliver your Ice Breaker, take your first Table Topic, and learn the meeting roles by doing them.
Work through a structured learning path, evaluate other speakers, and handle Q&A without notes.
Mentor newcomers, chair meetings, enter speech contests, and serve the club as an officer.
The best way to understand the club is to sit in on a Friday meeting as our guest.