Master Media Engagement
September 13th, 2021In the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, Winnipeg-based epidemiologist Cynthia Carr began receiving many media calls. Although she had a lot of experience sharing her knowledge […]
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February 24th, 2021and Sweta Rajan SHARI: Sweta, when we spoke for the first time recently about how we might collaborate, you vented a bit about the whole notion of “imposter syndrome”. This […]
read more...Reframing Imposter SyndromeIncrease Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
December 22nd, 2020A woman once told me about having attended her thesis supervisor’s presentation at an academic conference. It took him almost 20 minutes to read his research paper aloud. When he […]
read more...How to reduce your dependency on speaking notesEffective Communication
February 21st, 2017Once upon a time it was possible to claim with confidence: Nobody likes a braggart. Now you have to qualify the statement: “unless he’s a billionaire, promising to turn the […]
read more...How to get others to recognize your brilliance – without braggingEffective Communication
July 12th, 2016You can tell how old this Punch cartoon is by the honorific applied to the sidelined “Miss” Triggs. But sadly, even though it was first published more than half a […]
read more...7 Ways to Get Heard at MeetingsIncrease Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
March 15th, 2016The other day I stood like Wonder Woman for a full two minutes. I wasn’t reliving a childhood fantasy but preparing to do a short phone interview about our latest […]
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