As a professional speaker, I get many chances, as I travel around the country, to see other people give presentations. With professional speakers, the presentations are always well done and ...

“Alright, Mike. You go on stage in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1. Go for it!” says the stagehand at DesignThinkers, a major graphic design conference in Toronto, Canada. I walk out on stage, waving to a dark sea ...

For the past 10 years, I've done presentations on how to do presentations. Nothing like setting yourself a high bar! I learned to present the hard way. As an undergrad at Cornell, I majored in Design ...

Sounds weird, I know.

Although public speaking is on the top of many people's list of anxieties, it's something most of us have to do for work, for church, for school, or for an organization we belong to. In the first part ...