by Doreen Downing | Sep 7, 2020 | Confident public speaking, Essential Speaking, Fear of Speaking, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking, Storytelling
If you opened this post, you’re probably aware that Chadwick Boseman, the star of the Black Panther movie, just died. He played the African king of Wakanda, a fictional country in the Marvel comic book series. With stunning beauty and advanced technology the country...
by Doreen Downing | Sep 16, 2019 | Confident public speaking, Fear of Speaking, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking, Public Speaking Tips, Speaking Circles, Speaking to Groups
My Fear to Lead a Meeting Why? Because, after a few cancellations, I had only two people signed up for the Berkeley Speaking Circle®? The meeting was scheduled to start in an hour. I wondered… …If the two participants could get enough value out of such an...
by Doreen Downing | Dec 23, 2015 | Authentic Speaking, Events & Programs, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking, Professional Speakers
Make A Connection Recently I took the opportunity to remind a group of professional speakers that being a powerful and authentic speaker is not so much about what they have to say, it’s more about the connection they can make with their listeners. These professionals,...
by Doreen Downing | May 13, 2010 | Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking
Leaders Who are Open to Learning When a participant in my Leadership Presence workshop wondered about her tendency to deny her own power as a leader simply because she was a woman, I asked her if she was willing to look more deeply at this tendency. She was already...
by Doreen Downing | Feb 20, 2010 | Book Reviews, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking
What is Authentic Speaking? A workshop participant who attended Leadership Presence: How to Inspire Groups to Action wrote this note to me and my training partner, Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles International. “I want to say a huge thank you...
by Doreen Downing | Sep 27, 2007 | Events & Programs, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking, Presence and public speaking
Learn to inform, inspire, and influence whenever you lead groups. In this interactive and experiential workshop, I will introduce the Leadership Presence model. With incisive guidance and coaching, in this training you will have the opportunity to design, structure,...
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