Do you know how to be empathetic?
Listening to my good friend and fellow speaker Martin G. Moore deliver a splendid speech on leadership recently, I was ...
E19 Season 2 of JOQ: Nick Morgan talks to Allison Coffin, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Dr. Allison Coffin is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Washington State University Vancouver, where her research focuses ...
What Audiences Want from Their Speakers: Personas, Part 2
In my last post, I talked about the importance of determining what kind of persona you wished to put forward ...
Are there three kinds of intelligence, and should we speak to them?
I’ve got bad news for fans of the so-called learning styles – visual, auditory, kinesthetic or tactile. They have been ...
Three Brain Myths That Hinder Speakers
I frequently encounter several misunderstandings about the brain on the speaking circuit that lead, arguably, to less effective speeches. So, ...
The Learning Paradox for Speakers
The human brain is a much more powerful learning machine than we think. A recent study (Buch et al., 2021) ...
A Neuroscientific Revolution?
Thomas Kuhn, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, argued that science proceeds in fits and starts. Scientists believe ...
Just One Question Episode 55: Nick chats with leadership communications Gina London.
Gina London is a Leadership Communications expert who coaches organizations and executives around the world, a former CNN anchor, and ...
The Dangers of Faulty Thinking
I took part in a logic training course years ago, an extra-curricular course designed to make better debaters of us ...
Do You Want the Bad News or the Good News First? How Neuroscience Can Help Us Be Better Speakers
Neuroscientists are now able to tell us startlingly specific things about how our brains work. Recent research details ways to ...
