Thought Leadership

Design Your Talk For Success

I have a presentation to give, so which slides can I use? Bad idea. This is the last thing you should be doi...

The Biggest Myth In Presenting

Urban myths usually spring from a scintilla of truth and then morph into something unrecognizable from the ori...

Get Your Presentation Rhythm Going

We hear a lot about the current age of disruption but it is also the age of distraction. If you are a speaker...

Speaker First Impression Mastery

If you are in Tokyo, are you enjoying the early flowering cherry blossoms yet? A fantastic pink canvas is head...

Don't Read It

Nervousness when presenting can make us do strange things. Two of those are reading our speeches or trying to...

Using Your Hands

New clients are the lifeblood of businesses. Keeping clients is difficult, things change and they disappear. ...

Where Should I Stand When I Am Presenting

Most presenters fail to consider the importance of where to stand when presenting. In today’s show we will go...

What Is The Correct Breathing Method When Presenting

Breathing. How hard can that be when we are presenting? Funnily enough we do crazy things and create problems ...

Presenting Our Sales Materials

How hard can it be the present the sales materials to the buyer? Simple right! Well maybe not. What are the be...

Don't Mystify Me With Your Presentation

The number one request we receive from our participants in our presentations classes is help to make them clea...

The 400 Face Presentation

Very few business presenters are able to really engage their audience. They are speaking at them rather with t...

Technical Presenters Biggest Mistakes

Technical experts are rarely expert presenters. Why is that? They are smart, well educated, highly knowledge...

The Power Of Passion When Speaking

The number of working women in Japan has topped thirty million, the highest since records were started in nine...

The Danger Zone When Presenting

In the history of the world, it has never been harder to be a presenter. The Age of Distraction has guarantee...

Why Lawyers Are So Bad At Presenting

Lawyers are smart people, but sometimes do self-defeating things. They are discovering that unlike the “good ...

Surprisingly, Smart People Are Often Clueless At Presenting

Japan is an interesting place. So many things here are ultra modern, high tech, totally nuanced and sophistic...

The Hard And Soft Of Presenting

It is so easy to become “Johnny One Note” when presenting. We get locked into a modality of voice and body lan...

The Professional's Guide To Presentation Rehearsal

Every performance is better when practiced beforehand and presenting is no different. We don’t do it for a mu...

How To Work The Room When Presenting

Getting up in front of people is confronting for a lot of speakers. Beady eyes are boring into you, a sea of ...

Be Clear Or Be A Disaster

Most talks and presentations we hear, we cannot recall. Why is that? We were there presumably because we had a...