by danarubin | Sep 17, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ We all hope to be more persuasive, whether we’re selling, seducing, lobbying, advocating, preaching or parenting. As a professional communicators, persuasion is the most important skill you can develop. If you can’t persuade, you’ll never get anyone...
by danarubin | Aug 14, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Look around you. How many images of powerful women do you see? That’s probably not enough, according to Iris Bohnet, a behavioral economist at Harvard who has studied the American workplace and found a lack of women leaders to look at. We all...
by danarubin | Aug 10, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Interview with Erin Vilardi of VoteRunLead Erin Vilardi is the Founder and Director of VoteRunLead, a national non-partisan organization focused on getting more women into public office. In its first 12 years, VoteRunLead provided training for...
by danarubin | Apr 7, 2016 | Public Speaking, Speech Coaching, Speech Writing
by Dana Rubin_____ Near the beginning of his new book, TED impresario Chris Anderson confesses he’s “not naturally a great speaker.” He’s prone to too many ums and you knows, stumbles and grasps for the right word, and can come across as overly earnest. Nice trick....
by danarubin | Mar 8, 2016 | Narrative, Public Speaking, Storytelling
by Dana Rubin_____ To hear him tell it, when Dave Lieber moved from New York to Texas in 1993, he landed in enemy territory. Everywhere he went, people were alien and hostile. They would lean in real close and ask: “Boy, what church do you go to?” “I don’t go to...
by danarubin | Dec 24, 2015 | Marketing, Presentation Design, Public Speaking
by Dana Rubin_____ It’s a bit hard to get a fix on the Steve Jobs we see in the recent documentary “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.” On the one hand he’s an idealistic, charismatic visionary who singlehandedly creates the personal computer industry. On...
