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What’s the Most Important Moment for a Speaker?

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:04:52-05:00April 4, 2017|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

What’s the key moment in the life of the speaker?  Is it the standing ovation? The off-script excitement of a ...

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What if Donald Trump Were a Woman?

Nick Morgan2017-03-16T04:00:35-05:00March 16, 2017|Body Language, Charisma, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication|

What is the role of gender in public speaking?  It’s an incredibly complex question, and one about which I’ve posted ...

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Getting Your Voice Right on Stage

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:07:18-05:00March 14, 2017|Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

The first time I saw a video of myself giving a speech, somewhere way back in the late 80s or ...

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What We Think We Know About Lying Is Wrong

Nick Morgan2017-03-07T04:00:44-05:00March 7, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Fear of Public Speaking, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

A recent study has overturned what we think we know about lying.  Most of us have a pet theory about ...

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Five Body Language Takeaways from President Trump’s Address to Congress

Nick Morgan2017-03-01T11:31:10-05:00March 1, 2017|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques, Speech Writing|

President Kennedy began his famous inaugural address with a line about a torch: Let the word go forth from this ...

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Body Language for Valentine’s Day

Nick Morgan2017-02-14T04:48:18-05:00February 14, 2017|Authenticity, Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

As most of us who are old enough to vote have learned, words and body language don’t always synch up.  ...

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How To Be More Charismatic – Lady Gaga, the Super Bowl, and Neuroscience

Nick Morgan2017-02-07T06:03:28-05:00February 7, 2017|Audience Interaction, Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Current Affairs, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication, Successful Speakers|

One thing that my clients and potential clients almost never ask me -- at first -- is how to become ...

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How We Read Other People’s Emotions – and Why It Matters

Nick Morgan2019-03-02T06:12:17-05:00January 26, 2017|Body Language, Emotion, Neuroscience, Non-Verbal Communication|

We humans read each others’ emotions with great enthusiasm.  Not a lot of accuracy, as anyone who has ever been ...

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An Analysis of President Trump’s Inaugural Address

Nick Morgan2017-01-20T17:57:23-05:00January 20, 2017|Body Language, Current Affairs, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

What was uppermost in the mind of Mr. Trump on the day of his swearing-in?  Apparently, our new president deeply ...

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President Obama’s Final Address – What Did He Say and How Did He Say It?

Nick Morgan2017-01-17T04:00:07-05:00January 17, 2017|Authenticity, Body Language, Content/Writing, Current Affairs, Non-Verbal Communication, Speaker Critiques, Speech Writing|

My blog posts this week are all about presidential oratory.  First, in this episode, I’ll be analyzing President Obama’s farewell ...