What do you want to spark?
It has been interesting over the last few weeks coaching speakers in countries where live events are starting back up. (After months of those events being online during COVID.) In preparing…
How to Bend Time
It’s February. A month that gets to be a little shorter and zippier than the rest. Time. What an amazing and bizarre construct. I love thinking about it. And it…
How do you want your audience to feel?
As speakers, we can be so focused on our words – and they do matter. But I love this Maya Angelou quote for the different frame it gives us: ‘At…
Signposting for speakers
What do I mean by signposting? Short verbal phrases that we can use as speakers to effectively signal direction and relevance in our talks. They help our audience’s brains make…
Fireside podcast: story and structure for speakers
Richard Rodger, from Voxgig, interviewed me on his podcast for speakers. We cover story, structure, iterative approaches to speaking and more! Listen on Apple podcasts