Even with preparation, public speaking is often an intimidating experience... and one that becomes even more daunting when the speaker needs to speak off the cuff. In this episode we are joined by Marie Sotto, comedienne, visual artist, and the Host and Producer of The Surreal Life comedy show, to talk tips for thinking on your feet in improv and while speaking. 

Faced with a camera, many people find themselves stumbling where, off camera in front of an audience, their talk, interview, or presentation would be a complete success. In this episode we are joined by Kyrill Lazarov and Dario Nouri, Founders of LAPSE Productions, to talk tips for speaking successfully on camera.

As we grow older, breaking the age barrier to connect with youth is often challenging for adults. In this episode, we are joined by Steve Tanner, Secondary School Vice Principal, to talk tips for speaking to and connecting successfully with youth. 

In this interview, hosted by Darine BenAmara on Instagram Live, we discuss public speaking, communication in networking, and the She Speaks Project; a documentary currently being produced by Sarah C. Sutherland and I exploring barriers that women face in professional communication in the workplace.

The words we use to frame our ideas have an immediate impact on how credible we seem to our audience. In this episode we talk eliminating qualifiers and the importance of framing your ideas as definitives.

Many speakers and content experts adopt an "intellectual persona" while speaking; meaning they employ big words and jargon as vocabulary to describe their ideas. Unfortunately, more often than not, this serves to damage both your credibility and your relationship with the audience. In this episode we talk avoiding pitfalls with the language we use in presentation and communication. 

People react to a speaker first emotionally and then rationally, meaning they react first to how you present before they listen to what you say. This starts with your voice. In this episode we talk how to optimize your quality of voice. 

How our voice sounds has an immediate impact on how receptive our audience is to our presentation. A big part of generating our best sound, our best quality of voice, comes from our posture. In this episode we talk the importance of good posture while speaking and how to make good posture happen for you. 

Starting a presentation with a question can be a tempting strategy to engage your audience from the get-go. In this episode, we talk why that strategy is usually unsuccessful.