Jul 8, 2025 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
We’ve likely all heard the old psychological game, “Don’t picture a pink elephant.” Once you’ve heard that, you can’t not see it. Let’s take that a step further: we could show someone a picture and say, “Look at this picture...
Mar 29, 2025 | Feature Articles
“Vonn” came to me wanting to be more effective as a speaker. His material was fairly well-organized (okay, we worked on it some, but that wasn’t the real issue). The real problem was that Vonn’s presentation style was flat, emotionless, and bland;...
May 15, 2024 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
Sometimes, it’s just not easy to make it clear what we do for people. Recently, a company just south of San Diego contacted me to ask me to run a public speaking skills class for sixteen of their top managers. I asked the cause for the class and heard back from...
May 15, 2024 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
Recently, I was interviewed for an article for Medium.com on tips for TEDx speakers to be more effective. I needed to make it clear to Yitzi Weiner, the article author, that I didn’t see TEDx tips as being much different from any other speaking endeavor other...
May 15, 2024 | Feature Articles, Uncategorized
Okay, this might be a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously…other than the missing cell phone attached to her head and maybe a nose ring on the last one, do the ’90s look particularly different from the 2020s? When I think of the ’40s to the...
