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 How to Hook Your Audience: Field-Tested Techniques That Work

How to Hook Your Audience: Field-Tested Techniques That Work

03/12/2025

The 20-Second Rule

"You have 20 seconds to increase my heart rate." I read this statement in a document entitled Revealed: The 6 Laws of Successful Pitching by the [...]

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 My analysis of Konstantin Kisin’s powerful speech at ARC 2025

My analysis of Konstantin Kisin’s powerful speech at ARC 2025

05/06/2025

Some of you may have seen this stellar and provocative 15-minute presentation by Konstantin Kisin at the February 2025 ARC Conference, delivered to an audience of world [...]

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 The Power of Simplicity: Why Clear Messaging Matters More Than Ever

The Power of Simplicity: Why Clear Messaging Matters More Than Ever

06/02/2025

“Verbal expression is the mirror of the mind. Clear thoughts become clear statements, whereas ambiguous ideas transform into vacant ramblings.”

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 Are you being judged by the way you speak?

Are you being judged by the way you speak?

18/04/2024

Consider this. Any time someone hears you speak, it forms an impression, and a potential for loss or gain. Let me share a quotation from luminary speaker and former New South Wales premier

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 How to avoid ‘verbal diarrhoea’

How to avoid ‘verbal diarrhoea’

21/09/2023

When you're having an interaction, or are a participant in a meeting, or are pitching to the leadership team et al - do you suffer from verbal diarrhoea?... Do you talk because you are [...]

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 Do you sound under-educated?

Do you sound under-educated?

27/04/2023

A number of years ago I conducted an interview with master speaker, and former NSW Premier Bob Carr, for a product titled Choice Voice. Lessons from great speaking voices. Here's a [...]

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 Learn from the magnetism of former U.S. president Bill Clinton

Learn from the magnetism of former U.S. president Bill Clinton

13/04/2023

Leaving aside the value of his policies, and his behaviour when he was in office in 1992 -2000, U.S president Bill Clinton - in this

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 Robert F. Kennedy’s 50% rule for being successful

Robert F. Kennedy’s 50% rule for being successful

06/04/2023

In 1968, when on the presidential campaign trail, the late Robert F. Kennedy told the journalist

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 Scoring NSW Premier D. Perrottet and NSW Opposition leader C. Minns

Scoring NSW Premier D. Perrottet and NSW Opposition leader C. Minns

23/03/2023

Leaving aside the value of their policies, and against the benchmark of a credible, believable, inspiring leader of a major political party – conveyed through their affect, body language, voice, [...]

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 This little known speech may be Obama’s best

This little known speech may be Obama’s best

23/02/2023

In my view, the best three speeches Barack Obama has delivered, in no particular order, are the: (1) Eighteen minute,

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