Powerful Presenting For Leaders

Everyone who presents wants to be a presentation rockstar and absolutely kill from the stage. Yet, the thing that holds most leaders back is fear. Fear that they will be ridiculed if they share something personal. Well, David has news for you. NOT saying those things is what makes audiences pity you and think of you as beige. In this episode, David gives two examples of leaders who took a deep bre...

As this is the first podcast of 2020, David thought he would reflect on a wonderful 2019 and share what lessons he has learned including what NOT to do with a client. He will also share how his lessons will change his life, his business and his speaking moving forward and how you can apply them too to your presentation skills.  

David recently gave a unique talk that he has never been asked to deliver in 23 years of speaking. And for the first time in 15 years, he was genuinely nervous. In this podcast, he explains how he put the presentation together and handled his nerves.

A current Xmas advert is using an old piece of music that took David back 35 years to a very difficult time in his life. Hearing it created an immediate change in his state. You can do the same with your audiences.

Over the years David has competed in some unusual and different areas. This has included the World Memory Championships and the Over 50s British bodybuilding finals. As a professional speaker, he has also spoken to hundreds of thousands of people in 25 different countries. But whatever the endeavour, all the practice in the world has not come close to the experience of actually putting himself in...

Too many presentations are sterile and devoid of any personality and character. A bit more honesty and openness making them more real will draw audience members to you.

After entering the bodybuilding finals of the British Championships, David quizzed the category winner and previous World Champion as to the secret of his success. He came back with one word – consistency.  A consistent diet and training regime is the only way to achieve the very best physique possible in bodybuilding. In this episode, David explains how consistent application of best practice pre...

Sometimes when he speaks and it is the right presentation with the right audience, David shares how he manages his very difficult childhood to still operate successfully as an adult. In this episode, David explains how the same approach can be used for dealing with significant speaking barriers such as nerves.

Whatever we do, we operate between an upper and lower limit. In this episode, David talks about how to make sure you don't drop below the lower limit and maximise your potential at the upper limit.

Well, it happened, David stepped out onto a bodybuilding stage in front of hundreds of people wearing nothing but his underpants and at least 14 gallons of fake tan. Quite an experience! It turned out to be one of the most momentous days of his life teaching him many lessons, mainly about himself. In this episode, he is going to share some of those lessons that can be immediately applied by you in...

In life, everyone falls somewhere on the spectrum of certainty from high certainty at one end (life is very predictable but can be boring) to high variety at the other (life is exciting but is never truly stable). David was chatting to a friend on Sunday and she said that she would rather feel nervous for whole of the next 20 years doing new stuff than keep doing the same old stuff and drift throu...

David's bodybuilding debut is fast coming round. When he started, it was all about diet and exercise but now other factors are coming into play like the beautification process. Yes, really. In this episode, David will tell you what this actually involves and why it is exactly the same when preparing for presentations.

There are four levels of value. The higher up the value chain you go, the greater the type and number of opportunities you will get. And the success, fun and money that go with them. In this episode, David shows where presentation skills comes on that chain and if you wish to, how to ascend it.

David is entering his first bodybuilding competition this year and he is really, REALLY nervous about it. He decided to go to a bodybuilding competition hoping it would make him feel more relaxed. It didn't. In this episode, he will explain how he is managing his nerves and how you can do the same if it is an issue for you.

David always tells people that he has no interest in their boring travel stories. As a professional speaker, he has enough of his own. But in this episode, he relays one to hammer home the single most important point he ever makes about presenting.

David recently heard a brilliant phrase used by an internet marketer when putting together a marketing strategy. "Divide your audience BEFORE they come in to your community or they will divide your members AFTER they have come in." In business, you need to find out who is with you and who is against you. You know that a fox in the henhouse is a very difficult way to manage and run a business. In t...

When David asks audiences if they like honesty, everyone puts their hand up. When asked about brutal honesty, 20% keep their hand up. When asked about rip your chest open and bare your soul honesty, just 1% keep their hand up. Problem is, without brutal and honest feedback, your speaking will not improve enough for you to reach your true potential. In this episode, David shares how he got some bru...

Everyone wants to move forward in life but very few like being put on the spot and challenged. As a leader, you are in the incredibly privileged position of being able to help people achieve significant change when you present. The key is to do it in a way which moves them in a different direction and doesn't hurt them. In this episode, David shares the way to do just this and how, when you get it...

Would you cross a river filled with crocodiles? Of course not. What if your child was sat on the bank on the other side about to get snaffled by a hungry croc? Success is often no more than finding out how far you are prepared to go. In this episode, David will share what utterly useless activity he did for 6 hours a day for 6 months and why someone spent more than 20 hours preparing for a 6 minut...

You need to start every presentation like a greyhound coming out of the traps with its testicles on fire. There's a picture for you. A slow start will lose the attention of your audience and once they are gone, they are gone. In this episode, David explains how to get every presentation off to an electrifying start and why it is so important.

Presentations are like cars. At one end of the spectrum is a 200,000 mile Ford Fiesta covered in panels painted every colour of the rainbow. At the other is a sparkling Lamborghini supercar with paint a mile deep. The question is - which would most accurately describe your presentations? In this episode, David shares the great news that the choice is yours and how to get yourself up to Lambo terri...

The benefits of improving our ability to present may be as obvious as the spots on a dalmatian dog but actually, they are unique to every single person and definitely unique to each presentation. In this episode, David shares what other leaders have said about the benefits of top class presenting including why Warren Buffet offered to pay students $50,000 more if they went on a communication skill...

Too many leaders avoid humour when they present. Partly because they don't think they are funny but also because they understand that there is a fine line between setting your talk on fire with great humour and burning it to the ground with bad. But humour is the one thing that can make the biggest difference to any talk and is worth every effort to get it right. In this episode, David goes throug...

David was a very good Boy Scout and still is! When it comes to speaking anyway as he lives by the Scout motto of 'Be Prepared'. However, on occasions he has been caught out by winging out. In this episode, he talks about how that felt and why it is impossible to over prepare.

This unusual episode broadcasts David's interview with Chris Stanford, MD of Arden Wood Shavings. Chris was present at a session David did on presentation skills. He went away and applied it word for word to massive success. This episode is a great example of how how presentation skills training is not just conceptual but really works in the real world.