How to Interact with Audiences, Part Four
This is the fourth post in a series of six. One of the consistent surprises for me in the keynote ...
How to Become a Successful Speaker in 2023
I often get asked about the path to success for a professional speaker. When you’re just starting out, you naturally ...
How Empathetic Are We? Has the Pandemic Turned Us into Trolls?
If, like me, you’re a little worried about the state of humanity post-pandemic, then our Empathy Quiz will be of ...
How to Change Someone’s Mind
How do you change someone’s mind? Your first reaction, in this polarized era, might understandably be ‘you don’t’. Especially on ...
Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans
With a hat tip, or maybe a dedication would be a better word, to my dear friend Riaz Meghji. I ...
Where Are All the Speaking Gigs?
I’ve been struck recently by a number of conversations with insiders in the speaking world. Over and over again what ...
In Praise of Contagion
Contagion is good. At least, in an emotional sense, in audiences, and most of the time. As public speakers, we ...
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 ...
How Speakers Self-Sabotage
Over the years I’ve watched some great speakers thrive and others with similar talents never get very far out of ...
The Future of Meetings, Predicted
What’s going to happen to virtual events when the pandemic is over? This question has become more and more urgent ...
