
Use These Questions to Connect With Your Audience
Apr 29, 2019 | Connect with Every Audience, Make Your Point, Persuasion, Professional Speaking, Public Speaking Tips, Speaking Tip, Stand OUT! Speaking Tip, Write a Meaningful & Memorable Message
Why Use Questions to Connect? A common challenge for most presenters is how to capture their best ideas that will quickly gain audience attention. An obvious reason for this is that people are easily distracted today. We must capture their attention with our first...
How to Help Your Audience See the ‘Big Picture’
Dec 26, 2018 | Connect with Every Audience, Persuasion, Public Speaking Tips, Speaking Tip, Speech Writing, Stand OUT! Speaking Tip, Write a Meaningful & Memorable Message
Use the Kanizsa Triangle concept in your next speech to help your audience see the Big Picture. Take a good look at the picture above. Look at it for several seconds. What do you see? Most people see a white triangle. It’s resting upon a black-lined triangle...How to Speak With Clarity for a Confused Audience
Sep 23, 2017 | Connect with Every Audience, Persuasion, Public Speaking Tips, Sell with a Story, Speaking Mistakes, Speech Writing, Stand OUT! Speaking Tip
Do you speak with clarity, or confusion? How often do you hear someone speak and create confusion? S/he gives a talk filled with facts, figures or vague ideas. You’re left wondering, “What in the world is this speaker talking about?” Have you ever given a...Why Speaking is Like an Exotic Sports Car
Jul 1, 2017 | Connect with Every Audience, Inspirational Speeches, Personal Development, Persuasion, Public Speaking Tips, Stand OUT! Speaking Tip, Toastmasters International, Write a Meaningful & Memorable Message
Public speaking is like caring for an exotic sports car. What?? Picture an expensive, high performance automobile. It has the potential to drive fast, with great power. Take care of it and it can consistently create a memorable experience. Ignore it, or put...Improve Your Results With This Proven Speaking Process – Part 2
Oct 29, 2016 | Advanced Public Speaking Skills, Connect with Every Audience, Famous Speeches, Persuasion, Public Speaking Tips, Speech Writing, Stand OUT! Speaking Tip, Write a Meaningful & Memorable Message
An Uncommon Speaking Strategy In my last blog, you read about the reasons why you should SCREAM at your audience when speaking. These are the first three parts of the SCREAM strategy: Simile, Contrast, and Rhyme. In this blog, you’ll read about the other three parts:...Our conference was elevated to a new level of professionalism. Michael will be retained to help make our trainers become better communicators, both visually and verbally and to assist us with next year’s conference. We highly recommend him and Speaking CPR to assist with your next event."
Robert Gerbus, President, Trans Ash, Inc.
Robert Gerbus, President, Trans Ash, Inc.
Michael Davis exceeded every expectation and was one of the best coaches I ever worked with. His quiet professionalism, and unsurpassed knowledge of storytelling helped make my Ted X Cincinnati talk extremely powerful.
I would recommend Michael, as a story and speaking coach to anyone with a high stakes talk to give. Michael will help you take your speech from good to great!”
LTC (Ret.) Scott Mann, Green Beret, Storyteller, Trainer, Coach, Author
LTC (Ret.) Scott Mann, Green Beret, Storyteller, Trainer, Coach, Author
He truly has a gift in connecting with the heart of each person he works with and helping them to unleash their story into their talk. All of the speakers raved about his work with them. Each of them has had broad experience in speaking, but they all felt that working with Michael raised the bar on their ability to speak. You can listen to all of his speakers, Anthony Munoz, Richard Bernstein and Graeme Joffe, at http://www.tedxcincinnati.com/talks/.”

Allison Wonders Gars
Speaker Coach Manager, TED x Cincinnati
Allison Wonders Gars
Speaker Coach Manager, TED x Cincinnati

“Investing in Michael is one of the best investments I have ever made. I speak on the subject of diversity in the workplace, which can at times be a difficult topic to discuss.
Michael taught me a repeatable process that allows me to create a foundational concept, a logical structure, an opening that grabs the audience’s attention, and a conclusion that encourages my audience to take action that will save them time and money.
I found Michael easy to work with, flexible with his schedule, and a wealth of information about the art of speaking. If you need to improve your presentation or speech, I highly recommend you consider hiring Michael. It is one of the best investments you can make in your own growth.”

Natalie Holder
Founder, QUEST Diversity
Natalie Holder
Founder, QUEST Diversity

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