Effective Communication, Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter and Master Media Engagement
August 18th, 2016
As professional communicators who advise others on how to improve their ability to connect with audiences, colleague Sarah Neville and I have watched the astonishing ascension of political neophyte and insult-machine Donald Trump with dropped jaws. Here’s our conversation about the lessons to be learned from his fearless communication style, originally published on Huffington Post. SARAH: […]
read more...Trump’s Terrifying Communication Effectiveness
Our Advocacy Work
May 2nd, 2014
(The following op ed was published in the Globe and Mail‘s online edition yesterday to help launch #respectHER, a joint campaign of Equal Voice and Informed Opinions.) At least some of the audience’s weeping was laughter-induced. But it was hard to tell how much. At the front of the conference room, former B.C. cabinet minister, […]
read more...Parliament is still Mad Men territory for women
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July 1st, 2013
The positive responses to our video campaign in pursuit of a more inclusive O Canada are still outpacing the cranky ignorant ones, and among the most inspiring was an email I received from Toronto poet and physician, Ron Charach. He turned his attention to not only eliminating the sexism of our anthem’s lyrics, but also […]
read more...“Get me rewrite!” – a truly inclusive O Canada
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October 21st, 2012
The infographic below is depressingly self-explanatory — on one level. It makes clear how entrenched the gender skew is when it comes to who gets quoted in North American media. And — as MediaWatch discovered 20 years ago when we conducted a comprehensive analysis of newsmakers (those quoted or reported on) in Canadian dailies — […]
read more...Women’s voices — on women’s issues — missing in action
