All David's presentation skills coaching clients tell him the same thing. That 'their' speaking/clients/products/service is unique and different to everyone else's.

But in reality, the basic principles behind great presenting are the same whether it is speaking at a Board meeting of a billion dollar company or being the compere of a Masked Dancer event at a conference, both things that David has prepared clients for in just the last two weeks.

In this episode, David shares how to get the basics nailed down so you can be a presentation rockstar, whatever the audience and whatever the talk.

David's tagline is Making Leaders Presentation Rockstars and when presenting, it is brilliant to feel that way. The audience laughing at your jokes and clapping you off stage.

But sometimes the reason behind improving presentation skills is more prosaic than that.

In this episode, David talks about an inspirational entrepreneur who specifically asked him to turn her into a presentation rockstar while actually needing the improvement in her skills for nothing more complicated than being able to get the highest price for her business when she sells.

As a leadership presentation skills coach, David is always approached to help leaders improve their speaking in the business world first.

But in this episode, David explains how it is even more important to get speaking at personal events nailed down too. Because those types of events tend to be one offs. You only get one chance to speak at someone's funeral.

He also looks at how the usual presentation rules apply, even putting fun into the eulogy.

Even as an experienced 25 year speaker, David understands one thing - speaking is a live event.

Every presentation and speech he gives has the ability to teach him something because every one is unique.

In this episode, he explains why he believes continuous improvement is the key to being a presentation rockstar...

...and the 9 lessons he learned in 2022 that will help make him an even better presenter in 2023.

David was ill over Xmas and had to cancel everything. His mate reframed it by saying that Xmas was just a refence point and he could see all the people at some other time over the coming weeks.

David was not happy with this.

It was at this point that he realised that the barrier to managing being ill at Xmas was him.

In this episode, David talks about how we can all improve our chances of success in 2023 if we learn to discover what is within us that is holding us back.

David recently got asked to do somethng unusual - rewrite someone's LinkedIn profile.

In this episode, he shares how this came about through a presentation skills coaching class he delivered and how, by applying the same principles to writing as speaking, every leader can dramatically improve their communication across both mediums.

David recently did a coaching session with a client who said his boss did not treat him with the respect he deserved. But this client turned up late to see David and didn't apologise.

Almost every leader gets to achieve their dreams because of the dream makers in their team but not if they think they are being treated as 'lower' than them.

In this episode, David explains thow this deeply damaging attitude almost certainly drips into the way that leaders talk to their colleagues and how Quiet Quitting and all its problems can be the corrosive outcome.

Speakers should never be repeaters. Churning out the same old stuff every time is stale for audiences and for you.

David recently used a brand new start for an important talk at the National Sales Conference. He took a big risk as he had no idea if it would land. In this episode, he explains what he did and if it worked or not.

As a leader, you already understand that success is based on trying something new.

It is about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Otherwise, you are just a hamster on a wheel going round and round doing the same old thing.

That hasn't got you where you are.

Yet, when it comes to speaking, a surprising number of leaders are too cautious, scared to try anything new.

In this episode, David explains why this is a highly flawed approach and that trying and failing is the ONLY way to become a presentation rockstar.

YouTube research shows that the most successful channels are those where people are chatting on the video like you are the only one watching.

Yet, most videos online are done in a style by people as if they are presenting on TV.

In this episode, David goes through the key elements to make sure that you don't come across as contrived or even worse, insincere.