Today’s conversation is with Lisa Scott, a speech pathologist who has turned her attention to the particular needs of presenters who need either more confidence, or help with their speech clarity. This episode may be of particular interest to you if you are a non-native speaker of English who sometimes struggles to be understood. You’ll…
In this episode, you will hear a conversation with Benedict Albensi, Ph.D., a neuroscientist with wide-ranging interests not only in science and the arts, but also in training young scientists in innovation and creativity. Does learning the piano make you better at math? Are people actually right- and left-brained? Is muscle memory really a thing?…
What would you call someone who was a Navy sailor, then in turns a policeman, fireman, and paramedic before going to med school and becoming an emergency physician? Why, you’d call him “Doctor,” of course! Host David Otey gets to call him something else, as you will hear in this episode. And you will learn…
In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation with best-selling author and speaker Susan RoAne. If you don’t know Susan yet, trust us: if you were in a room with her, you’d get to know her very quickly. She’d see to that! Susan is an expert in the related arts of working a room and networking.…
What is your gut reaction when someone asks you to speak in public? Is it a knot in your stomach? If so, you’re not alone. In this episode, you will meet Canadian speaker and speaking coach Brenden Kumarasamy. Brenden and host David Otey had a wide-ranging conversation that covered several of the interesting questions Brenden…
In this episode, you will hear a conversation with Nancy Giere. Nancy is a trainer and a designer of online courses, mostly for businesses. Whether you are designing a course or planning a presentation, there are certain common elements you have to consider if you are going to meet your audience where they are and…
This content episode is a follow-up to the previous episode, “Why Do Better?” This time around, host David Otey will review the benefits you stand to gain when you up your game and do a better job with your technical presentations. You will hear the story of a graduate student defending her dissertation and a…
In this content episode, host David P. Otey discusses the reluctance of some technical experts to put effort into learning how to be better presenters. Why bother raising the bar for what a presentation could be, when everyone else seems satisfied with the status quo? There are at least four reasons for working toward a…
In this episode, you will hear a conversation with Anthony LaMantia, Ph.D., of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech. Like my previous guest, Dr. LaMantia started out intending to be a clinician, not a researcher. But he did become a scientist, albeit one with an interest in theatre and literature. Hear how those…