Speaker, Presentations Coach, Well-Known Toastmaster, and my friend, Akash Karia , has made quite the splash over the last few years in ...

Have you heard of TEDtalks? Yeah, I thought so. But, have you heard of Ignite? Not as many of you, I'm sure. Ignite is also a wor...

  I've been a Toastmaster for almost 15 years.  I've competed on the world stage. Twice. I've even been invited to keynote or...

I know, I know - I'm WAY late to the party. Five years apparently. Sure, I'd seen the TEDtalk video - but everytime I thought ab...

(Editor's Note: Over the last couple of years, I've watched my friend Maureen Zappala transform herself from a top-notch Toastm...

Every year, Martin Luther King Day rolls around, and I feel a responsibility to post SOMETHING. A responsibility I don't fulfill -...

On my list of 52 Books in 52 Weeks , I half-jokingly suggested to the author of 'The Attitude Check', Heath Suddleson , that I...