I am fortunate that I get to work with and coach a lot of amazing entrepreneurs, executives and corporate professionals. One thing that comes up time and time again is how to be more engaging, how to hold a room, how to have ‘executive presence’. While there are number of components that need to go into the melting pot to achieve this, one of the critical factors is charisma; a mystical power often associated with Hollywood celebrities, pop stars and cigarette smoking cowboys. The good news is charisma isn’t reserved for the select few that fell from the tree of charm and beauty, charisma is available to every single one of us, like Harry Potter had to go to Hogwarts to unleash his inner wiz
This last month I have been part of a keynote speaking team touring Australia, each of us sharing our expert messages with finance brokers across the country, the line up consisted of, Chris Helder, an expert in mindset and psychology. Amanda Stevens, a marketing genius and Jessica Gallagher, a dual summer and winter Paralympic medalist, one of the top 200 women who will change the way you see the world. Not only did I get to deliver my own keynote focused on conscious communication, I also had the pleasure of being the event MC and introduce these amazing speakers to stage, watching them work their magic time after time. Every presentation was solid, in every city the audience was always ca
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to give an informal presentation, I didn’t think too much of it, after all standing on stage and speaking is what I do. Being a low key, casual event I didn’t spend a great deal of time thinking about the presentation, even though I was sharing ideas on a topic I had never discussed from stage before, in my head I was thinking ‘I can wing this, I’m a pro, I do this speaking thing all the time’. ‘I can wing this, I’m a pro, I do this speaking thing all the time’ The event got underway, I was having a great time meeting new people, I was then introduced to the stage, I walked on, started strong and then things started to get bumpy. Although I was sharing my id
