Master Media Engagement
September 13th, 2021
In 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 in public talks, she recognized that media interviews were an entirely different beast. Unable to wait for the next scheduled Informed Opinions’ workshop that would […]
read more...An epidemic of interview requests — and she’s still standing!
Diversity Belonging + Inclusion
February 24th, 2021
and 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 is something that comes up in our workshops all the time — the extent to which many educated, experienced and competent women feel like they’re […]
read more...Reframing Imposter Syndrome
Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
December 22nd, 2020
A 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 looked up at the end, she was the only one remaining. Everyone else had bailed from sheer boredom — and he hadn’t even noticed. (She […]
read more...How to reduce your dependency on speaking notes
Effective Communication
February 21st, 2017
Once 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 clock back to the 1950s, and Russian hackers are spreading fake news stories about his female opponent.” It was crushing for many women to be […]
read more...How to get others to recognize your brilliance – without bragging
Effective Communication and Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
July 12th, 2016
You 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 century ago, including it in a slide deck in 2016 still elicits the laughter of recognition. What stops you from speaking up at meetings? Even […]
read more...7 Ways to Get Heard at Meetings
Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
March 15th, 2016
The 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 research with CJAD 800 Radio in Montreal. If someone had happened upon me over the course of those two minutes, they certainly would have laughed […]
read more...The power of power-posing
