The Five Building Blocks of A Successful Speaking Career

Nick Morgan2015-11-05T07:00:51-05:00November 5, 2015|Book Writing and Publishing, Books, Books (Print), Branding, Charisma, Community Building, Content/Writing, Non-Verbal Communication, Social Media, Speaker Marketing, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Successful Speakers|

This post is the second in an occasional series about professional speaking careers. I often get asked about how to ...

When Should You Be Authentic?

Nick Morgan2015-09-03T18:41:19-05:00September 3, 2015|Authenticity, Body Language, Charisma, Emotion, Storytelling|

My dad died a week ago. He had a long and honorable life, and had suffered a year’s illness before ...

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Eight Ways to Begin a Speech

Nick Morgan2015-07-14T10:03:05-05:00July 14, 2015|Content/Writing, Emotion, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

The most difficult moments of a speech are those seemingly endless seconds of stage time while you get to your ...

Why I’m a Coach

Nick Morgan2015-07-07T07:00:56-05:00July 7, 2015|Authenticity, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

Few people dream as children of becoming a coach when they grow up. The clichés run to more glamorous, limelight-stealing ...

Five Common Rookie Storytelling Mistakes

Nick Morgan2015-06-18T07:00:05-05:00June 18, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

In honor of this week’s launch of our new online course, Presentation Prep: 10 Steps to Persuasive Storytelling, I’m devoting ...

Authenticity, Artifice, and Presentation Prep

Nick Morgan2015-06-16T07:00:54-05:00June 16, 2015|Authenticity, Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

We live in an era when the demand for authenticity trumps a number of qualities that our society (and others) ...

What’s Wrong With Acronyms?

Nick Morgan2015-06-11T07:00:02-05:00June 11, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Just because it’s possible to sum up the key takeaways in your presentation in one of those annoying acronyms doesn’t ...

How Much Should You Customize Your Speech?

Nick Morgan2015-06-09T07:00:06-05:00June 9, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

Chris Brogan recently wrote in a blog post about his struggles with writing a new presentation for every occasion versus ...

What Sepp Blatter Did Right

Nick Morgan2015-06-04T07:00:45-05:00June 4, 2015|Body Language, Current Affairs, Emotion, Non-Verbal Communication, Speech Writing, Storytelling, When Things Go Wrong|

The FIFA president gave a fascinating resignation speech after 17 years in the job, thanks to the recent indictments on ...

How To Get People To Pay Attention To You

Nick Morgan2015-06-02T07:00:37-05:00June 2, 2015|Content/Writing, Speech Writing, Storytelling|

We all know that the industrialized world is awash in information today; many have observed that this information overload puts ...