Jan 11, 2017 | Speaker Tips
When I started speaking regularly more than a decade ago, I only had one criterion for saying “yes” to a speaking engagement: an invitation. I was so thrilled to be wanted that my knee-jerk response to every request was an automatic, over-eager, “Yes!” My first...
Jan 5, 2017 | Audience, Blog, Blogging, Curation
by Robin O’Neal Smith When you visit a museum and notice a sign with artwork: “From the Collection of….” Somewhere there are many more pieces of art, but a curator selected the specific items they wanted to display. And the other items are stored elsewhere....
Dec 26, 2016 | Audience, Platform, Podcast
Listen In In this episode, Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp unearth some practicalities when it comes to uncovering ways to know one’s speaking audience. In order to honor the audience, a speaker needs to unearth the background, environment, flavor of the...