How to Think and Speak at the Same Time
Any degree of public speaking fear, from stage fright to mild anxiety, can be seen as a problem in harmonizing one’s speaking with one’s thinking. You may tend to think too fast to keep up with in your speaking, or your mind “freezes” and you...
Lee’s Story: The Genesis of Relational Presence
I was as shy as a chubby awkward kid from Brooklyn could be, and my proclivity for tortured self-consciousness led to a full-blown case of stage fright that didn’t abate until I was in my mid-fifties. Even one-on-one conversation often found me in a state of...
How To Amplify Your Professional Presence
Business and career fruition is largely the result of what I call professional presence. That is, your value in the world of commerce is determined by the pleasure of your company (personal presence), how you hold what you know, and the clarity and verve with which...
Your Leadership Contribution
True leaders heed the call to live out loud through events in their lives that demand participation from a deeply emotional place. One obvious example is Michael J. Fox. After contracting Parkinson’s, advocacy for patients with the disease became his life work....
Speaking Circles®
Learn how to move through stage fright rather than trying to mask it by sharing who you really are.