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…
In this episode, you will meet Amanda Hays. Dr. Hays is a pharmaceutical scientist—but she didn’t start out to be a scientist. You will hear how she fell in love with the idea of creating something new and “solving the puzzle.” You will also hear how she learned to tell the story of her work…
How do you get your audience on your side when they fear that your innovation will put their job at risk? That’s not a scientific problem; it’s a communication problem. And it’s one that pharmaceutical scientist Stephanie Pasas-Farmer encountered when she brought her innovative artificial-intelligence solution to market. Listen in as Stephanie explains where she…
In this episode, you are going to meet Marty Dickinson, author and entrepreneur. But you’re not just going to meet him—you are going to hear him interview podcast host David Otey. And what is the occasion for this turnabout? It is the launch of David’s latest book. But you won’t just hear about the book.…