In this episode we spoke with Matt Essam.  

Matt is a business coach who helps creative freelancers grow their business by finding work that is both creatively fulfilling and financially rewarding.

Matt has a lot of experience with presentations. He run 60 workshops in the last two years and also spoke at conferences and venues such as the Google Campus, General Assembly, Glug, Hey! and Mainframe Derby.  

Key Takeaways

- How to give an effective presentation for prospects

- How to listen to your audience

- How to handle objections

- How to deal with a hostile audience

- How to take your audience to the next step  

We hope you enjoy it!  

In this edition of the Ideas on Stage Podcast, Phil Waknell welcomes Peter Ivanov, bestselling author of Virtual Power Teams, and discusses remote working, how to lead and motivate teams across borders, and how to be productive when working from home.  

You can learn more about Virtual Power Teams and Peter's upcoming book Power Teams Across Borders on his website, https://www.peter-ivanov.com.  And you can also find details of our own online courses on the Virtual Meeting Revolution at https://www.ideasonstage.com.

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Jeremy Nicholas is an award-winning TV and radio broadcaster, well known for his news and sports reports for BBC TV and radio. 

He is an accomplished speaker who is brilliant at adding humour to presentations.   

In October 2015 he was awarded the highest award in UK speaking, the PSAE - Professional Speaking Award of Excellence, only the fifteenth person in history to receive it. He’s a past president of the Professional Speaking Association, London.

Kids of all ages are more impressed that he’s the voice of the announcer on 11 global best-selling football video games FIFA 06 to FIFA 16. If your children have this game, you will know this man’s voice, perhaps a little too well. 

He’s a published author and his third book ‘A Million Tips on Public Speaking - Volume One’ is available as a free download on his website www.JeremyNicholas.co.uk. 

Andrea spoke to Jeremy to learn more about how to add humour to business presentations. 

Key Takeaways

- Crazy things that business speakers do

- How to be funny

- Where to find humour in real life

- How you can transform facts into stories

- How to get a guaranteed laugh with a simple structure anyone can implement

We hope you enjoy it! 

In this episode we spoke with Mark Leruste, Founder and Chief Purpose Officer of the Ministry of Purpose and Host of The Unconventionalists podcast.

Mark has worked with pioneering organisations, forward thinking leaders and disruptive conferences including Google, TEDx, Intuit, INSEAD, Method & Ecover, L’Oreal, StateStreet, The Guardian, Samsung, General Assembly and VirginStartup. 

His weekly podcast The Unconventionalists has reached 135,000+ downloads on iTunes across 100 countries and his inspiring videos have been viewed over 1.5 million times on social media.

His TEDx talk "What they don't tell you about entrepreneurship" is the most watched TEDxCardiff talk to date.

In this episode we talked about the secrets behind his successful TEDx talk. It's packed full of great tips and insights on all things public speaking. 

Books recommended by Mark: 

- The Breakthrough Speaker, by Adam Smiley Poswolsky  

- The Storyteller's Secret, by Carmine Gallo 

Key Takeaways

- How to ‘find your voice’ as a public speaker

- How to develop a compelling message

- How to make your presentations engaging

- How to start strong

- How to control your nerves

We hope you enjoy it! 

In this episode we spoke with  @MariaFranzoni , Director of the Speaker Bureau Maria Franzoni Ltd. 

Maria has held senior positions with 2 leading bureaus: CSA Celebrity Speakers and London Speaker Bureau – named by the New York Times as “the only international speaker bureau”. In 2007 she founded her own boutique bureau.

She has worked with the “who’s who and the who’s that?” of the speaking world, including first man on the moon Neil Armstrong; business magnate Richard Branson and racing champion Jacques Villeneuve …. To name a few.  

Maria is former co-chair of the European Association of Speaker Bureaus. Director of We Do Things Differently cultural change consultancy and founder of Speaking Business Academy and host of  Speaking Business podcast.  

Books recommended by Maria: 

- Profit First by Mike Michalowicz 

Key Takeaways

- What she looks for when choosing a speaker

- What her top clients are looking for in a speaker

- The best question you can ask your client when they booked you to speak at their event

- How to get more paid speaking gigs

- What qualifies you to be an expert in your subject

We hope you enjoy it! 

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IDEAS ON STAGE RESOURCES 

- Books: ‘Confident Presenter’ – free copy (https://bit.ly/confident-presenter-free) and ‘Business Presentation Revolution’ (ideasonstage.com/business-presentation-revolution/book/)

- The Confident Presenter Scorecard: https://ideasonstage.com/score  

- Free Web Class: https://www.ideasonstage.com/uk/events/   

- Free Mini-Course: https://bit.ly/confident-presenter-mini-course

Andy Lopata speaks globally and has been quoted extensively in the international press. He is a Fellow and Director of the Fellows Community of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA), a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute and a Master of the Institute for Sales Management. He was awarded the PSA Award of Excellence in 2017.    

Here's what you we talked about:

- Storytelling

- The role of emotional stories 

- The rule of three

- Audience engagement

- Removing barriers

- Effective presentation design 

- Rehearsing  

- Adding humour  

- Making it relevant to the audience  

- Tips for good eye contact 

- Dealing with nerves 

- And much more   

Books recommended by Andy:  

- . . . and Death Came Third!: The Definitive Guide to Networking and Speaking in Public, by Andy Lopata and Peter Roper 

- The Presentation Coach - Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter, by Graham Davies   

- The Exceptional Speaker, by Alan Stevens and Paul du Toit  

- Never Be Boring Again: Make Your Business Presentations Capture Attention, Inspire Action and Produce Results, by Doug Stevenson   

We hope you enjoy it!  

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Isaac Getz is a Professor, speaker, researcher and co-author of award-winning business books like Freedom, Inc. and Leadership Without Ego. He recently released in France a landmark new work called L'Entreprise Altruiste (co-written with Laurent Marbacher; English edition forthcoming). Joe Ross sat down with this world-renowned leadership specialist to learn more about this intriguing “altruistic corporation” business philosophy and how he sees the future of business and capitalism in general.

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Garr Reynolds kick-started the presentation revolution in 2005 with his popular ground-breaking blog at https://www.presentationzen.com, which led him to publish Presentation Zen in 2007. The most popular presentation book of all time is now in its 3rd edition, with many updates, so Rose Bloomfield caught up with Garr to find out what's new, and why you need a copy of this new version. With special guest appearances from Queen, Steve Jobs and Yoda - and Garr's cat! 

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