Mike Sholars Senior Writer If you’ve ever set your sights on landing a big-name speaker for your event but fell short of the mark, Katherine Bindley’s article in The Huffington Post is required reading. It highlights ten recent approaches universities took to secure high-profile commencement speakers, and also soundly demonstrates the power and importance that
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As a continuation from our last post on audience engagement, we now want to focus on another important feature of podium performance – recommendations. Hopefully, with your amazing speaking presence and engaging content, your audience and perhaps most importantly, the event planner, will want to have you on stage again. Whether you are a keynote
The clapping subsides and you step down from the stage, another successful presentation is in the bag. Or was it? How do you know, as a public speaker, that you succeeded in connecting and engaging with your audience? Or that you will be invited to speak again? What will they base it on? Traditionally, speakers
With the growing number of organizations focusing on strategic communications programs that position their executives and employees as thought leaders, it’s not surprising that there’s growing competition for public speaking opportunities. Speaking engagements are a proven way for organizations to develop market profile and reinforce thought leadership. However, our own experience and market research suggests
