Back in September 2015, I wrote a post about the winning speech at the 2015 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking, given by Mohammed Quatani. His speech, The Power of Words, was [...]
Whether it was David Letterman signing off on the Late Show for the final time or Caitlyn Jenner accepting an award recognizing her courage, the most discussed and shared presentations of the [...]
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 [...]
One woman’s quest for stylish, professional, and un-crushing footwear A few months ago, I was hired to give a full-day training program to a group of 25 executives on how to master their [...]
(This article also appeared in the Huffington Post, Dec. 5 2014) “Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it “to whom it may [...]
Giving a presentation is a huge responsibility. When you’re in that power position in front of an audience, you’ve got to make sure that you’re leaving them informed, intrigued, [...]
We’ve all seen the robotic speakers who may have great content but we can’t get past their nervous body language or frozen delivery style. As a speaker, how we say what we say is [...]
I was so blown away by the amazing response from this week’s free call on How To Create A Signature Speech That Sells! If you missed it, grab the recording here: http://bit.ly/1l7QiWf. [...]
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the [...]
Last week, Transformers director Michael Bay started a firestorm of “what not to do when public speaking” when he walked off the stage at the CES conference because his teleprompter wasn’t [...]