Thought Leadership

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...

Know Your Target

I was at a speech recently, given by a very prominent person, an extremely experienced speaker, to a very pres...

Nerves Need Not Nobble Your Presentations

Speaking in front of others makes many people tongue tied and nervous. They struggle to get through a simple ...

Where Are You in Your Presentation

When we are presenting, we can be mentally separating out personal selves from the content of the talk. There...

What Pro Public Speakers Do

When you see someone do a very good presentation, your faith in public speaking humanity is restored. There a...

Presenters, Lose the Vice Like Grip on The Rostrum

Good posture never goes out of fashion. Standing up straight shows confidence, allows good breath control and...

Two Dimensions Needed When Presenting

When you hear an excellent presentation, it is easy to be well satisfied. When you are giving such a presenta...

How To Take A Great Presentation Higher

When you hear an excellent presentation, it is easy to be well satisfied. When you are giving such a presentat...

Selfish Presenters

My regular Rotary meeting held every week at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo has a featured speaker.   Our speaker...

Salespeople To Avoid

If you meet any salesperson who doesn’t ask you questions before explaining their widget run!  This person is ...