Julian Beever is an English artist whose work has appeared on pavement all over the world. He creates jaw-dropping illusions with mere chalk, and he delights us by mounting them, not on the wall of a gallery or museum, but on the… Read More »Effective Presentation: Blow-your-mind Street Art
I went to a slew of parties over the holidays. When people asked me what I do, I found myself saying, “Consultant,” or “Speech consultant,” or if I’m feeling really insecure, “Itinerant rhetorician.” I am essentially dodging the phrase “presentation skills”… Read More »Presentation Skills for Scientists
Reva P. Minkoff, Class of ’08 at Harvard and a Staff Writer on the Harvard Crimson had this to say on November 16th: “Since the days of Cicero, the ability to speak eloquently in public and argue persuasively with others… Read More »Public Speaking Crisis: Harvard Kid Tells it Like it is
Jerry Tarver, a speech writer and Professor at the University of Richmond, wrote this incisive limerick that skewers those of us who think that, when it comes to PowerPoint slides, “too much ain’t enough.” Learn the fate of a speaker… Read More »Presentation Skills: The Demise of PowerPoint
My friend Charlie Green, co-author of The Trusted Advisor and other books on the role of trust in selling (www.trustedadvisor.com), invited me to dinner with his speech coach, Patricia Fripp (http://www.fripp.com/). Patricia is a dynamo, and continues to send me… Read More »Speech Writing: Nice Sermon, Pastor, Who Wrote it?
He was the son of a fire and brimstone New England preacher, the brother of the writer of one of our greatest Southern novels, a friend to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mark Twain, and the defendant in one of the… Read More »The Best Public Speaker in America