NEW! Group Program: Virtual Presentation Success

“Thank you for the outstanding job on facilitating the Virtual Speech training. I learned multiple things, some of them I had an idea, others were new. It provided great value for our time”–training participant Live, online group training + individual coaching Download the complete program description Build fundamental skills essential to presenting in a virtual […]

The App I Use in Almost Every Presentation

The app I use in almost every presentation is . . . a clock app. All it does is tell the time in really BIG digits. That’s all I want it to do. When you are presenting as a keynote speaker, or doing a breakout session or a workshop, the ending time of the presentation is what […]

The #1 Rule for Speakers and Meeting Planners

I’ll be brief.  Don’t go over time. Or, as Winston Churchill might have put it:  Never speak too long.  Never speak too long.  Never speak too long. But, it’s not always about ending your speech within the allotted time, sometimes it’s about ending on time. One of the questions I ask in my pre-program questionnaire […]

Never Speak Too Long Again!

A speech is like a woman’s skirt: it needs to be long enough to cover the subject matter but short enough to hold the audience’s attention. ~Author Unknown I’m not sure which is worse, a speaker who is oblivious to the fact that he or she has gone overtime or one who realizes it and […]