Speaking Masterclass: Bunker Roy – Learning from the Barefoot Movement
A story about using age-old skills and the power of grandmothers. Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient.
View ArticleSpeech of the Day: Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah
Great science and innovation isn’t just found in the universities and the corporate world, all that’s needed is an idea and the passion to follow it through, this isn’t the last we’ll be hearing from...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
Stories are powerful, they shape the way we see the world, how we look at people and cultures. Chimamanda Adichie asks what if we don’t hear the full story? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Ramona Pierson – An Unexpected Place of Healing
An amazing story of survival, growth and the power of community Ramona Pierson develops tools to revolutionize learning management and assessment systems — her fourth career after aviation,...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Jane McGonigal – Gaming Can Make a Better World
With her goal to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online game, Jane McGonigal asks an intriguing question – what if real life was more like a game?...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Tan Le – My Immigration Story
No gimmicks, no powerpoint, just a story and when it comes to storytelling, nothing connects better with an audience than a personal story. Tan Le is the founder & CEO of Emotiv Lifescience, a...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn About Presenting From TED Talks
image: afromusing Let’s try an experiment. Choose a video at random from the ted.com homepage Watch it If you find yourself losing interest, select one of the three videos in the “what to watch next”...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Shabana Basij-Rasikh – Dare to educate Afghan girls
A great speech is not about big gestures or performing, it’s about how you connect with the audience. Shabana shows us that a quiet, soft-spoken speaker with a great story can captivate an audience. ....
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Roy Finley – A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA
Ron Finley is a very natural speaker. He doesn’t sugarcoat his message, instead he uses humour, passion and emotion to get his message across powerfully. He makes a simple statements like “Gardening is...
View ArticleSpeaking Masterclass: Jay Silver – Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
Our normal image of a great speaker is someone like Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs or Barack Obama, someone polished and articulate but that’s not what being a great speaker is about, it’s about...
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