Thinking Hurts — Here’s One Thing to Do about It
It hurts to think. A huge research project that studied 5,000 people in 29 countries found that we would rather ...
What Is a Narrative Reversal and Why Does It Matter?
Another in an occasional series on storytelling When I ask my mid-career executives in the Harvard Professional Education and Development ...
Are You Afraid to Speak Your Mind?
Are Americans afraid to speak their minds? According to a recent study, the ‘land of the free and the home ...
What makes a good introduction?
A good introduction is essential to get a speaker off to a good start. The tendency for event hosts to ...
Speakers, Do You Know Your Audience?
When we think about our audiences as speakers, we think about their demographics, or the industry they are in, or ...
A Counter-Intuitive Way to Deal with Stage Fright
I was instructing the mid-career executives on “Persuasion and Influence” recently at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, and I was ...
Keynote Speakers – Don’t Neglect Q and A!
If you are a keynote speaker, you may often be asked to spend the last 15 minutes or so of ...
Nick talks to tech pioneer Scott Klososky who helps to reframe our thinking about AI
Scott Klososky is a tech pioneer, having participated in several start ups including Alkami Technology, which went public ...
Speakers Need Community!
In this post I want to address directly a tribe of people that don’t always know they are part of ...
Nick talks to brand strategist Kristen Hartnagel about how to build a speaker brand
Kristen Hartnagel is a professional speaker, a brand strategist with Brand Builders Group, and a personal coach. How ...
