TJ Walker

So what is the big lie that you have been told your whole life about public speaking? It may even be a lie that you have told yourself! The lie is that somehow you have to be born a speaker. That is complete baloney! I can say that I have worked with thousands of speakers…

A lot of people like to start with their PowerPoint presentation using a rough draft. This happens millions of times all over the world in many major corporations, organisations, and other government entities. Unfortunately, that pretty much guarantees that the presentation will be a disaster. Nobody can create a PowerPoint presentation for someone out of

“When I was introduced to speak in front of large rallies of tens of thousands of people in sports stadia, I would pause after standing and just not say anything. I would reflect, pause, and keep silent. I would keep this up for 30 seconds, maybe even a minute or two, and people would get

There is a lot of debate over this generic advice. Many people advocate for short presentations because people are losing their attention spans. But wait a second: I have seen speakers get up, speak very vaguely, be very abstract, dump a bunch of data on the audience, and nobody remembered it after two minutes. On