As we head towards the summer, we’re nearly 6 months into the year. Maybe it has been a good one for you so far, or maybe you’ve faced many constraints and challenges? The theme of this newsletter is how we can do the best with what we have and maximise our most precious resource - [...]
Published on We Are The City Imagine you’ve just been asked to make a presentation Does the prospect fill you with fear? Maybe it’s an exciting opportunity that you’ve been waiting ages for? Or perhaps you just want to get it out of the way so you can return to business as usual! Whichever camp [...]
Why workshops are popular Are you nervous about making a speech but you’d happily run a workshop? Well, the two are closer than you might think. I recently delivered a workshop on behalf of Hearst Live – think the events arm of Hearst Publishing, which owns Harper’s Bazaar, Red, Esquire, Elle and a host of [...]
What’s the ‘formula’ for creating and delivering an engaging presentation? Today I shared my DIVA public speaking framework (Dynamic Inspiring Valuable and Authentic) with a pan-European hybrid audience during an energising visit to Copenhagen. It was great to keynote in person for a change, and I enjoyed gifting a couple of books to audience members [...]
Published on The Talented Ladies Club Love to use public speaking as a marketing tool, but worried you’ll be boring? Read four ways to hook your audience during your next talk. Public speaking can be a great way to spread the word about your product or service and to reach lots of potential customers in [...]
Published on The Metro The prospect of public speaking can reduce the most confident and eloquent person to a bundle of nerves. Just the idea of getting up on stage has some people gasping for air, convinced that the gods of well-timed delivery are choking them deliberately. As such, it’s not surprising that loads of us [...]
Published on ACCA ‘I think you’re on mute.’ ‘Can anyone hear me?’ ‘Oh my, look at that bookshelf – aren’t we scholarly!’ ‘Oops, they think they’ve got their camera turned off.’ ‘Nice outfit!’ Does any of that sound familiar? For the many of us who have had to quickly adapt to remote working and video [...]
Published on Marie Claire Public speaking is an important part of any job, and from team meetings and presentations all the way to TED talks, everyone will experience it at some point during their career. For entrepreneurs, it's investment pitches - a crucial hurdle to obtaining funding and a notoriously difficult balance to get right. [...]
