Here’s to the Mid-Career Executives!
I’ve just spent an unusual week, for me, working with classes of mid-career executives on their persuasiveness and influence as ...
How Did That Pandemic Work Out for Us?
What effect has the pandemic had on our collective psyches? Now that we are two and a half years into ...
E35 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick checks in with hall of fame speaker Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead, NY Times bestselling author, hall of fame speaker, and author of the forthcoming Different Is Better ...
This Year’s World Champion Speaker Richly Deserves the Title!
This year’s Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking delivers such a great speech under enormous pressure that is seemed worthwhile ...
E32 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick chats with author, and founder of the Young China Group Zak Dychtwald
Zak Dychtwald has a remarkable and unusual ability to straddle two very different cultures: the U.S. and China. ...
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 ...
E31 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick catches up with speaker, author and message strategist Tamsen Webster
Tamsen Webster is a speaker, an author of Find Your Red Thread, and a message strategist. ...
E30 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick checks in with transformational relationship coach Lisa Merlo-Booth
Lisa Merlo-Booth is a transformational relationship coach. She is a speaker, and the author of The Rising: A ...
Yes, Optimism, Imagery, and Self-talk Work!
Three large studies, taken together, confirm that stress ages you, optimism extends your life, and self-talk works to help you ...
How to Talk about Change
How should speakers, writers, and other communicators talk about change most effectively? Not the way we’ve been doing it. Not ...
