The key to giving a great speech is actually writing a great speech. All the speech-related advice out there focuses on our collective (and completely rational) fear of public speaking. What if I told ...

I still remember one of my first big speaking engagements. I spent weeks preparing, rehearsing every word and perfecting my slides. I wanted to be flawless. But when I stepped onstage, something ...

“You can’t afford to wing it no matter if you are the boss, a department head, or a team leader charged with delivering the remarks,” public speaking coach and veteran PR executive Rosemary Ravinal ...

It was the summer of 1998, the end of her junior year of college, when Sarah Hurwitz fell in love with the art form of writing the perfect speech, having scored an internship at the White House in ...

Looking for an example of how not to give a wedding speech? Try this. I was recently told an anecdote about guests at a wedding who became suspicious about the detached, cliched style of the groom’s ...

Memo to the potential winners: Be more like Halle Berry and less like James Cameron. The calendar tells us that a new year is dawning, and we know what that means: The two-month-long awards show ...