As the great jazz musician, Charles Mingus said, “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple—that’s creativity.” Most business presentations and speeches that I see are complicated and could be made ...

If you have any ambition for being a platform master, someone who stands out from the crowd and is a memorable communicator, then you need to become a sticky speaker!

Using that one word, ‘Imagine’ – is probably one of my most favorite ways to open any engagement with an audience. Why?

Today, I’m going to give you just one of the ways you can open your next pitch, presentation, or speech.

Audiences have been ‘trained’ or ‘conditioned’ through hundreds of repetitions. Without even knowing it, an audience will ‘assess’ you in the first 90 seconds and that first impression is extremely challenging to replace.

In the last episode, we started a conversation about engagement - one of the eight ‘constant factors’ of platform presence. We are building on a principle first identified by Sun Tzu in his classic writings, The Art of War. -

for the next several episodes we are exploring the eight governing laws of platform presence, which are the ability to engage, persuade impact, and compel an audience using passion, purpose, posture, and projection. These are the ‘non-negotiable,

Introducing the 'Significant Speaker Model'. Today we are going to finish our live session on Mastery Starts With Control by giving you a little model, which will help you to grasp the importance of feeling significant.

We are focused on the foundation principle in Sun Tzu’s Art of War: “The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors…” and we are talking about becoming a platform master through The Governing Laws for Platform Mastery.

We are still talking about the eight elements to Platform Presence, which are the ability to engage, persuade impact, and compel an audience using passion, purpose, posture, and projection.