Public Speakers Gifts

"I'm going to make eye contact only with this side because of the crick in my neck."

'Please welcome our first speaker who will discuss 'The Challenges of Globalisation'.'

Campaign for Plain English

"Feel free to use it. It's an emergency escape hatch if you say something controversial."

'We outsource our grape juice, marketing, bottling and distribution, and yet he's supposed to give a speech tonight on winemaking - bosses,outsources,outbetter show him what a grape looks like.'

T. Kelso - Optimist. 'I understand he's in gread demand as a dinner speaker.'

Soapbox Lectures - To an audience of a dog.

"And if all else fails, wave your arms frantically."

'He's supposed to be an animal rights supporter but he'll talk the hind legs off a donkey!'

Joshua Feuerstein

Training for a speech

"I will not mince words, but I may slice, dice, and finely chop."

Performance anxiety lessons, the more you practice something.

People with anything valuable to say rarely become orators.

Joe Binden's Secrets of Public Speaking.

Yomp Foundation Presentation committee: 'Don't let the gong intimidate you!'

'He may be a financial whiz but he isn't much of an orator.'

'How did your 'get tough on crime' speech go?'

"Of course we have disinvited Chelsea Manning to be a fellow. Since the surgery, she's no longer a fellow, is she?"

Changing Minds

A Puppet Named Juan

'You forget, I'm a blackbelt in powerpoint.'

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

"Oh, I'll be bi-partisan alright, punishing both sides of the aisle."

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

They hated me.

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'Whoever said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' never had a room full of angry shareholders.'

'I have a plan 'B' but that's also dependent on a working projector bulb.'

"How's everybody doing? I'm not boring you, am I?"

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

Meet Stephen Krkzk Author of 'Why Conspiracy Theories Are Nonsense'

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

"If I might be serious for a moment..."