I have a client—let’s call him Drew—who is a successful consultant. He works with small companies to improve their sales results, but he’d like to move up in the world, work with larger companies, and speak at more prestigious events. His… Read More »Your voice and speech
I recently spoke at an industry event on the subject of differentiating your message. I was invited to speak by someone who knows my work as a communication coach who told me that there would be a variety of people… Read More »Know your audience
Over forty years ago, drifting through my undergraduate years in my ratty easy chair, I came across three words that lifted the veil from my eyes. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, the Three Musketeers of rhetoric, seemed to me to be… Read More »Words Pack a Punch
The President needs a good second half. He was kind of half-whooped in the first half of his presidency, but if he comes out of the inauguration like Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens came out of the locker room at half-time… Read More »Obama inaugurates the second half of his Presidency
There are millions of people from all over the world and from every corner of this country working in our North American companies, and in companies all over the world–companies that use English as the global language of business. Many… Read More »Voice and speech training: The whole voice
I had the privilege of helping a young man with a sales presentation. He had already been delivering it for several months on behalf of his investment firm, but he thought we could tweak it. The slide deck introduced the… Read More »How to project authority