How to Get Your Talk Accepted (Not Just Submitted)
Reviewers spend their evenings wading through submissions that read like a form got filled in because a form needed filling in. This is how to avoid being one of them.
Public Speaking
Essays here are from the Public Speaking shelf - everything you need to take a good idea and make it land from the stage
The talk that ate the afternoon
Here's how to structure a talk with a two-pound stack of index cards - plus the full step-by-step method, free to read in a complimentary edition of The Department of Interesting Things.
Every Presentation Is an Exchange
Every presentation is an exchange. The audience gives us their finite resources, and the speaker gives value, perspective, meaning and something worth paying attention to.
Public speaking and the power of the stage
Dame Judi Dench, Louis Theroux and feeling alive on stage. The power of public speaking.
Speaking as Sense-Making: Why Public Speaking Shapes Leadership
Being good at the work isn't the same as being good at explaining it. Public speaking is how ideas move through an organisation — and how to make yours travel.
From Idea to Keynote: Designing for Attention and Value
A keynote is not a performance. It is an act of value creation — where a distilled idea meets scarce attention. How to design a talk that earns what the audience gives.