What’s the Most Important Moment for a Speaker?
What’s the key moment in the life of the speaker? Is it the standing ovation? The off-script excitement of a ...
Three Ways for Speakers to Cope with Stress
Continuing with my theme of the past few blog posts on the nature of the speaking business and what it ...
A Simple Way to Make Conferences Better
A weary traveler, down on his luck, comes to an inn. He’s cold and hungry, so he goes into the ...
The Speakers’ Code – Ten Tenets of Public Speaking
Speakers don’t have a union, and we’re a motley collection of thought leaders, experts, teachers, crusaders (in the non-twelfth-century, deracinated ...
How Speakers Can Prevent Burnout
For professional speakers, achieving your dreams of finding your audiences and getting to speak to them around the world means ...
Getting Your Voice Right on Stage
The first time I saw a video of myself giving a speech, somewhere way back in the late 80s or ...
First, Find Your Voice
The hardest thing for most speakers to develop is not a new speech, or even their charisma, but rather their ...
Five Ways to Ensure Presentation Success
Clients often ask me, “How can I raise my game?” or “How can I take my speaking to the next ...
Why Speakers Should be Helping Audiences Forget What They Know
There’s a particularly tedious kind of speaker that ostentatiously tries to teach his audience something by having the audience repeatedly ...
What the *#@&! Should Speakers Swear?
Should a speaker swear on stage? Is it ever appropriate, and if so when? These questions used to have an ...
