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 [...]

How often do you frustrate or alienate your audience when you give a presentation? More importantly, how would you even know if you’re doing it? Here are 3 things that you’ll want to [...]

Last week, one of the students in my public speaking class asked if she could postpone giving her speech for another week. Why? Student: “I can give the speech today, but it won’t be [...]

There are brilliant people who have so much anxiety over public speaking that they chose not to apply for certain jobs, they refuse to present at meetings or conferences, or they dropped out of [...]

Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth for the last 2 months. Life has taken some twists and turns…both my life, and the brand new life of my newly-arrived ‘bundle of [...]

Last week I was fortunate to spend the day at TEDxMcGill, being inspired by a series of short presentations along the theme of “Relentless Curiosity”, by individuals in the McGill [...]

My colleague Jane Atkinson, speaker coach and President of Speaker Launcher, recently launched a Best Speaker Video contest on her blog. For many speakers, a speaker video is the #1 form of [...]

“I was sitting there hoping they wouldn’t call my name – because the idea of having to give a speech in front of everyone in the world is terrifying.” — Reese Witherspoon, on her anxiety before [...]

A lot has been said about the presentation style of Steve Jobs. Numerous books have written about it, blogs, articles and other media are continually discussing and deconstructing his finesse, [...]

Ellen DeGeneres’ speech to the Class of 2009 at Tulane University is an excellent example of how to deliver a serious message with humour.  This 9-minute speech has humour, it has relevant [...]