Tennis Players, Grunts, and Public Speaking
One of the fun things about my years spent toiling in the vineyards of public speaking, storytelling, body language and ...
Emotion, Human Connection, and the Virtual World
Recently I was reviewing some research on popular TED talks that found that the most successful speakers used more hand ...
What Speakers Need to Know About the Brain
Fall is officially here and it’s time to put away the pails, shovels and sunscreen and get back to work. ...
History Matters
It’s the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth this year, this summer, last month, and so it seems like a good ...
The Online Double Standard
In our real, physical lives, we accept that people close to us change their minds and suffer bad moods—but in ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part Two
This is the second of two articles adapted from my new book, Can You Hear Me?, due out from Harvard ...
Human Empathy and the Virtual World, Part One
I’ve been posting recently about the perils of our life today, living as we do half-face-to-face, half virtually, adapting the ...
The Difficulty with Online Beginnings
This post is adapted from my forthcoming book, Can You Hear Me?, to be published by Harvard in October. Recently, ...
What It Takes to Be Successful as a Professional Speaker
I am often asked by clients and prospective clients about what it takes to succeed in the ever-more-competitive world of ...
Amazing Human Tricks and Public Speaking
By now, if you’ve wasted even a small amount of time on the Internet when you should be doing more ...
