It’s Oscars time! And with that, the review of the stand-out speeches, the flops, the themes of the night (politics, love, and….MOTHERS!), and whatever shenanigans happened over the [...]

I’ve just popped back in from a whole week off, I watched the WHOLE 2017 Oscars telecast and then got up at 5am for a TV segment on GlobalTV Montreal to talk about the outstanding speeches [...]

Picture this….you’re sitting in a boardroom listening to one of your colleagues, your team, or your boss give a presentation. They pull out their slides, and they are CRAMMED with information, [...]

At 10:25pm EST on Sunday night, I got a text from a friend that said “Just watched Meryl Streep give the most powerful speech at the Golden Globes. I’m still crying. If you missed it, you MUST [...]

The 2016 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking was crowned late last summer, much to the delight of all speech-watchers around the world. Singaporean lawyer Darren Tay rose above 30,000 [...]

A few months ago, I asked my newsletter readers to tell me who their favorite speakers were (and if YOU’RE one of my newsletter readers, then I’m talkin’ to you!). It was so [...]

Your presentation is planned. You’ve prepared, rehearsed, you’re wearing your ‘power clothes,’ and you’re saying the silent prayer shared by speakers all over the world: “May my technology work [...]

In August, Mohammed Quatani was crowned the winner of the 2015 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking with his speech, The Power of Words. Mohammed rose above 30,000 contestants to [...]

In August, Mohammed Quatani was crowned the winner of the 2015 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking with his speech, The Power of Words. Mohommed rose above 30,000 contestants to [...]

Have you ever spent tons of time and done tons of work building a presentation, and then after delivering it, generally had NO IDEA whether the audience liked it, didn’t like it, or just barely [...]