The Happy Presenter

Nov. 29, 2017 by

Most of us are not happy presenters. Consider the complications: the drill of assembling our ideas, putting them in order, finding that, nope, they’re out of order, rearranging them, developing slides, exhausting our eyes as we create clever little graphics,

You Don’t Need a Personality Transplant

You Don’t Need a Personality Transplant

Jan. 11, 2017 by

I believe that scientific medical presentations need to be more dramatic. After all, doctors are talking about life and death. Yet many doctors speak like test pilots: flat as a mashed potato sandwich. It’s the culture of intrepidness, as if

Free Trait Agreements with Yourself

Free Trait Agreements with Yourself

Dec. 13, 2016 by

Every now and then a client says they don’t want me to change who they are.   The implication is that any “stage” behaviors I recommend that are outside their comfort zone will make them feel artificial and, therefore, less