Last night I have attended Toastmasters conference with a keynote presentation by Lance Miller, 2005 world Champion of Public Speaking.

As a member of the Toastmasters International, I have the opportunity to meet many special people who are thriving to do the best and perfecting their public speaking and leadership skills. Many of them (if not all) are extremely talented one way or another. As a conferenceholic (the second name of this blog www.conferenceholic.com ), [...]

I just came back from a very inspiring District 59 Toastmasters Conference where I have attended several workshops. My favorite was by Conor Neill and I would like to share some take ways I got from it. Conor Neill is a professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School. An [...]

Working in conference business I had an opportunity to see many great presenters. Lucky me! In my opinion one of the most important ingredients in successful presentation, or event business conversation is Humor, does it come easy to you? Not to me. My presentations tend to be quite serious, and I am going to change [...]

Speaking at a conference is a golden opportunity to accomplish what entire marketing departments die for: lead generation and brand building. Don’t squander it. Capture it!

Preparation is the key to a successful presentation. We asked Mike Moran to share the secrets of preparation before presenting at the conference.

A presentation is not the dry transfer of concepts from one to many. It is transmission. It requires your physical concentration and your presence of mind, as well as a combination of skills and attitudes. The first thing to note is that everyone is different, and everyone has the same chance to be good. I [...]

Speaking in public is a fundamentally different exercise than private conversation. No one is born knowing how to do it…

Presenting skills for business are usually treated as a science when, in fact, they combine as an art.

At my latest trip to New York I had a chance to meet Larry Chiang at the Gravity Summit, who been very nice to record a short video with tips to speakers for this blog. Here it is: His presentation was interactive and fun, we have really enjoyed it a lot. You can find his [...]