Are You a Powerful Speaker or Executive?
How do you feel about powerful people? Are you powerful yourself, or do you wish you were? What do you ...
Are You Taking up Your Full Space?
It used to be a truism of body language studies that alpha males asserted their status by taking up more ...
Should You Smile for the Camera? Be Careful — It May Age You!
We humans smile a great deal. We smile when we’re happy; we smile when we’re sad, to disguise the feeling ...
Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
Are you good at spotting a lie?
How good are you a spotting a liar? Most people think they are above average, but the research clearly shows ...
What’s Your Speaker Persona?
One of my favorite activities to work on with speakers is developing their persona. Speakers rarely get to that point ...
Use This Surprisingly Simple Technique to Reduce the Stress of Public Speaking
An old saying has it that a ‘problem shared is a problem halved’. It’s a nice thought – unload your ...
Five Common Speaker Delivery Mistakes
In a previous post, I talked about 5 common errors that speakers make when focusing on the content of their ...
The Secret of a Successful VC Pitch
How do you give a successful VC pitch? A recent study suggests what determines success, and indeed what allows subjects watching VC ...
The Pandemic Epidemic of Loneliness
A good deal has been written about the increase in negative mental health indicators during the pandemic. Drug abuse, mental ...
