What happens when you have a brilliant idea, and you’re SURE that you’re explaining it well, but your intended recipient or audience just doesn’t “get it?” So [...]

  Communication can impact everything in your organization right down to retention and engagement. Had a talk with Samantha Bateman, Client Relationship Director at Integria Consulting all [...]

After 5 years of on-and-off writing (with the ‘official’ re-start over 2 years ago), the PROOF of From Nervous to Nailed It! Find Your Voice, Present With Impact, and Unleash Your Ultimate [...]

You’re in a meeting presenting your status update, and things are going well. You’re feeling good about your presentation, and the group seems reassured that you’re on top of things. Then someone [...]

With so many of us having to get our point across virtually — and without the benefit of the small communication cues that often are more readily available when you’re in person [...]

Several months ago (pre-COVID, in the good old days when you used to be able to have face-to-face conversations with your colleagues) I had the opportunity to sit down with the amazing Heather [...]

You’ve got experience as a speaker….you can hold your own when speaking in front of a group…but then you get this little twitch, this little inkling that says: “You know [...]

I had a MAGNIFICENT time being interviewed by the talented Alain Guillot at the McGill Toastmasters Club in a post-meeting interview session. In this interview, Alain and I share a fast-paced, [...]

A super-fun (and early) morning on Global TV Montreal, discussing how to prepare for a speech, why telling a joke at the beginning is a BAD idea, and how to be gentle (yet still helpful) if [...]

I get asked this question a LOT by my students, my clients, and the participants in my Create A Signature Speech That Sells program — so I wanted to share the answer that I typically give. [...]