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is the editor and founder of Six Minutes. He teaches courses, leads seminars, coaches speakers, and strives to avoid Suicide by PowerPoint. He is an award-winning public speaker and speech evaluator. Andrew is a father and husband who resides in British Columbia, Canada.
Twitter: @6minutes
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has served an adjunct public speaking instructor at Grand Valley State University for the last 10 years. He is a former leadership development consultant with more than 20 years experience in corporate public relations. Mr. Jeff is also the author of a personal leadership book -- Get a Grip on Your Dream: 12 Ways to Squeeze More Success Out of Your Goals -- and can be reached at jeffp@gvsu.edu.
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is the author of Creating Communication, a blog about effective communication and presentation practices. She teaches Professional Communication and Presentation to business students at Full Sail University.
Twitter: @alexrister1
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is a singer/actor, voice coach, speaker, and the author of Can You Hear Me Now? Harnessing the power of your vocal impact in 31 days. Through her presentations, seminars, workshops and private coaching, Kate helps executives, speakers, and performers find the strengths in their voices to better express themselves in their professional and personal lives. For more information, visit Kate’s blog.
Twitter: @k8peters
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is a Hall of Fame speaker, coach to Fortune 500 executives and author of more than 18 books, including Speaking is an Audience-Centered Sport. She is CEO of BRODY Professional Development, a business communication and presentation skills company located in the Philadelphia suburbs that offers tailored training programs, workshops, keynote presentations, and executive coaching. Contact Marjorie via her website.
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provides marketing communications support for the professional services industry, including architects, engineers, and scientists. For more than eight years, he has routinely helped teams develop messages and craft polished presentations for multimillion-dollar projects. Chaunce is an enthusiastic member of Toastmasters International in St. Paul, Minnesota’s Metropolitan Chapter.
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graduated from Durham University with an MA in Psychological science. Writing is her passion. She lives in San Francisco, provides master classes on public speaking, and works as freelance blogger. You can read her blog or follow her on Facebook.
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is an author and professional speaker. She regularly speaks for Fortune 500 companies on time management, leadership, information overload, and making ideas happen. Her book The Principle of Relevance deals with information overload and how to make information a tool of empowerment rather than a form of distraction.
Twitter: @S_Lucchetti
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is currently back in her van, with her Rottweiler, traveling across the USA and documenting her journey the second time around, this time as a writer, not a homeless woman. Discover more about Becky at beckyblanton.com.
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is a strategic communications advisor specializing in helping people deliver high-impact communications. With 25+ years of experience, Scotti has taught high-stakes presentation skills at Duke University and routinely works with Fortune 100 executives and top-ranking government officials (including the U.S. President’s Cabinet) to prepare for and deliver winning presentations. For out more at her SpeakerNotes blog.
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is a former Best Man and twice winner of the GB & All-Ireland Championship of Public Speaking. He is a full-time speaker coach, trainer, and keynote speaker. For more information, visit Simon's site: The Art of Connection .
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is a freelance writer, a frequent public speaker, and a voice for good in the world. He believes in helping others overcome their speech disorders and giving them the confidence to succeed in life.
Twitter: @allen24ben
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has been a member of Toastmasters in Johannesburg and London and has served as club VP of Education. He constantly seeks to improve his public speaking and communication skills and sharing what he has learned through his website. His guiding principle is that life is about communication, and having fun while communicating is what makes life worth living.
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is president of Spoken with Authority, providing one-on-one coaching, small-group classes and workshops that develop the voice of experts who want to broaden their impact. She also is a lecturer in the Department of Communication at The George Washington University.
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is the author of The Wealthy Speaker: The Proven Formula for Building Your Professional Speaking Business. She is a business coach for speakers, specializing in positioning and marketing. For more information, visit Jane’s website: Speaker Launcher.
Twitter: @janeatkinson
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is an educator, blogger, and speaker residing in Orlando, Florida. When she is not working on her latest deck of bullet-free slides, writing for her blog, Tweak Your Slides, teaching business students at Full Sail University, or advising student organizations, she enjoys blogging, cooking, watching and reading science fiction, listening to live music, and participating in local art, literature, and music functions.
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is the founder and president of And…Now Presenting!, a D.C. area business communications consulting and training firm, where she draws on her background in sales, marketing and customer service to create confident, persuasive speakers. She works with business executives, authors, non-profit leaders and the military to help them speak clearly, effectively and engagingly to their audiences.
Twitter: @KathyReiff
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is co-author of Yes You Can! Everything You Need From A To Z To Influence Others To Take Action and founder of 1st Impression Consulting, Inc. She helps individuals eliminate the static that plagues communicative delivery - to persuade, sell, influence and communicate face-to-face with a clear message. She has trained over 15,000 people to rid themselves of bad body language habits and choose words wisely.
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is President of Public Words Inc and author of Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, and Give Your Speech, Change the World. He has coached professional speakers, executives, educators, and politicians in effective public speaking for more than 20 years.
Twitter: @DrNickMorgan
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is a former actress who is now a professional presentation coach. She works with professionals who are struggling to communicate in front of others. Her specialties are transforming fear of public speaking, telling authentically persuasive stories, speaking voice and accent reduction for foreign-born professionals. Visit Sandra's blog: Speaking Freely
Twitter: @sandrazimmer
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is the founder of Presentation Advisors, a presentation design and training firm, where he helps clients of all sizes visually engage their audience and tell their stories more effectively. He is an avid blogger on presentation design, speaking, and marketing topics at Presentation Advisors.
Twitter: @Its_JonT
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has over 20 years of experience in B2B marketing, first working in the hospitality service industry and then moved to the knowledge industry. She currently works for Informa in the Dubai office, where she oversees marketing for public and in-house training courses, conferences, exhibitions, and managed events across the Middle East and Africa.
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is a Canadian now living in Geneva, Switzerland. A lawyer by training, he has spoken extensively before courts, tribunals, business conferences, bodies of the United Nations, and more. He lectures on public speaking and presentation skills at the University of Lausanne and elsewhere. John is a four-time European champion of Toastmasters International public speaking contests. His writes regularly about public speaking and presentation matters on his blog.
Twitter: @ZimmerJohn
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is a freelance writer whose passion lies in creative writing. She completed a degree in Computer Science and writes about ways to apply machine learning to deal with complex issues, as well as insights on education, helpful tools, and university experiences.
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owns LetterPerfect, an executive communications consultancy in Chapel Hill, NC. Her writing has been published in Newsweek and Vital Speeches of the Day.
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