Ideas on Stage Podcast

In this episode we spoke with Jackie Barrie. Jackie has been a professional copywriter since 1983. She writes without waffle and trains other people how.   Everything she does comes from being a writer. She helps people to communicate their message clearly – whether that’s through the written word on paper or screen, the spoken word face-to-face, or an activity that the audience undertakes. She’s...

In this episode we spoke with Joanna Gaudoin.   Joanna Gaudoin (Inside Out Image) specialises in helping ambitious professionals and their organisations improve performance and achieve their goals. She does this by helping them master and strategically use the business skills of Personal Impact and Relationship Management. Before establishing Inside Out Image, Joanna worked in marketing and consul...

In this episode we spoke with Dr. Jonathan Downie.   Jonathan is a consultant conference interpreter, working between French and English, as well as an author and interpreting researcher.   This interview is relevant both to international speakers and to international conference organisers.   Key Takeaways for speakers - Why interpreting matters - Why your audience need to hear you in their langua...

In this episode we spoke with Matt Essam.   Matt is a business coach who helps creative freelancers grow their business by finding work that is both creatively fulfilling and financially rewarding. Matt has a lot of experience with presentations. He run 60 workshops in the last two years and also spoke at conferences and venues such as the Google Campus, General Assembly, Glug, Hey! and Mainframe...

In this edition of the Ideas on Stage Podcast, Phil Waknell welcomes Peter Ivanov, bestselling author of Virtual Power Teams, and discusses remote working, how to lead and motivate teams across borders, and how to be productive when working from home.   You can learn more about Virtual Power Teams and Peter's upcoming book Power Teams Across Borders on his website, https://www.peter-ivanov.com .  ...

Jeremy Nicholas is an award-winning TV and radio broadcaster, well known for his news and sports reports for BBC TV and radio.   He is an accomplished speaker who is brilliant at adding humour to presentations. In October 2015 he was awarded the highest award in UK speaking, the PSAE - Professional Speaking Award of Excellence, only the fifteenth person in history to receive it. He’s a past presid...

In this episode we spoke with Mark Leruste, Founder and Chief Purpose Officer of the Ministry of Purpose and Host of The Unconventionalists podcast.   Mark has worked with pioneering organisations, forward thinking leaders and disruptive conferences including Google, TEDx, Intuit, INSEAD, Method & Ecover, L’Oreal, StateStreet, The Guardian, Samsung, General Assembly and VirginStartup.   His we...

In this episode we spoke with Maria Franzoni, Director of the Speaker Bureau Maria Franzoni Ltd.   Maria has held senior positions with 2 leading bureaus: CSA Celebrity Speakers and London Speaker Bureau – named by the New York Times as “the only international speaker bureau”. In 2007 she founded her own boutique bureau.   She has worked with the “who’s who and the who’s that?” of the speaking wor...

Andy Lopata speaks globally and has been quoted extensively in the international press. He is a Fellow and Director of the Fellows Community of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA), a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute and a Master of the Institute for Sales Management. He was awarded the PSA Award of Excellence in 2017.     Here's what you we talked about: - Storytelling - Th...

Isaac Getz is a Professor, speaker, researcher and co-author of award-winning business books like Freedom, Inc. and Leadership Without Ego. He recently released in France a landmark new work called L'Entreprise Altruiste (co-written with Laurent Marbacher; English edition forthcoming). Joe Ross sat down with this world-renowned leadership specialist to learn more about this intriguing “altruistic...

Garr Reynolds kick-started the presentation revolution in 2005 with his popular ground-breaking blog at https://www.presentationzen.com , which led him to publish Presentation Zen in 2007. The most popular presentation book of all time is now in its 3rd edition, with many updates, so Rose Bloomfield caught up with Garr to find out what's new, and why you need a copy of this new version. With speci...