If you'd like to grow your business and career by speaking to an audience, this guide is my gift to you. I hope you find it valuable.

“[An artist] has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When we start preparing a presentation, the default problem we seek to solve is an answer to the question "What am I going to say?".

A better question to answer might be "how can I help you?"

If you want your presentations to have a positive commercial impact, it's a step in the right direction.

Public speaking creates a visceral reaction in almost everyone. The nervousness in anticipation of an upcoming speech can be torturous!

When people are in conversation, they constantly think. They think about what they’re hearing, considering how they might respond, and constantly engaging in the thread of the discussion to consider how it aligns with their experiences of the world.

As a high performer constantly seeking new frontiers to conquer, and as a leader in your organisation setting the standard for others to rise to, taking the stage hoping to be “good enough” simply won’t do.

When you know what you want your audience to do in response to your presentation, then you can start to think about what you might say in order to inspire them to action.

It's almost impossible to bring your natural self to a presentation environment when you read from a script, which means it's almost impossible to create the environment for your audience to feel ready to buy from you.

When seeking profitability, it's common to seek leverage.

The other three rules for video content.

Three simple tips for video value.

I was listening to a podcast recently with a leadership expert who said right at the beginning of the interview "Leadership is about making the people around you better".

Given that you’ve just delivered the best possible result in your role, and contributed to your team winning the greatest possible prize, of course nearly every one of your supporters would approve.

As has been very well publicised, Masters - the hardware chain recently established by Woolworths Limited - is closing down, generating losses in the order of $1B for its parent company.