by Kare Anderson | Apr 23, 2019 | Learning, Persuasion, Quotable, Speaker/Audience, speaking
You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 3, 2016 | love, Speaker/Audience, Teach, Visual
She’d been fidgeting for some while. Suddenly, she turned and started talking to me. For two hours we’d sat silently, side-by-side at the airport gate, waiting for our small commuter airplane. Leaning on the narrow metal armrest that divided our hard seats, she...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 1, 2014 | Humor, Quotable, Speaker/Audience
“Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.” Mortified by some of the mistakes you’ve made in writing and overlooked when re-reading? In a droll stand-up act TaylorMali covers many of the most common, sometimes Freudian slips....
by Kare Anderson | Jan 14, 2012 | behavior, conference, Connecting, image, influence, Speaker/Audience, Visual
I am gratified by the 249 comments to this post I wrote for Harvard Business Review and seek your specific tips on quotability, the first step to connecting in this increasingly complex, information-flooded, and connected world: You can feel the tension in the...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 10, 2011 | image, Speaker/Audience, speaking
You’ll feel much better after watching Phil Davison’s emotional appeal for support. To put it dryly his talk amply demonstrates that being genuine and emotionally committed to one’s point of view does not necessarily mean you will connect with your audience.. Also,...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 22, 2009 | Meetings, Speaker/Audience
Exhibitors: here’s a surefire way to attract more warmed-up prospects to your booth, learn about their needs and bond with them as a festive part of the conference. As a speaker, I’ve forged value-building alliances with exhibitors that you can adapt to your kind of...
