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This is a place for you to discover thoughts, wisdom, applications, and practices for skills that create for you more connected communication. At times, I’m known to make some crazy connections to topics like nature, soccer, grand slam tennis, and more.
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Leaders, Got Presence?
Help! he or she needs Presence! I’ve heard it before. The SOS goes out. It’s as if there is a wand that anyone can bestow it. Or, it is a robe that can be donned. When one discovers what it takes - it's to get out of your head and to get into your body - this is first...
Sage Advice
At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Sage Kotsenburg gave the US its first gold medal of those games in snowboard slopestyle. In 2018, during the Pyeongchang, South Korea Games, Red Gerard took Gold for the US in the same event. Sage Kotsenburg, a friend, provided a blueprint...
Vocal Presence
Have you ever felt that you had to become a bigger personality, play a part, or put on a mask in order to present in front of others when it was not authentically who you are? A recent client, due to his communication skills, had reached a limit to where he could...
When Story Saves the Day
A client company was running an innovation contest in one of their business units. Anyone could submit an idea that would improve business process for selection. The winner would receive funding and support to have their idea actualized and launched. The finalists...
When you hit those Unexpected Situations: What to do when the “Knob Comes Off the Butt?”
I met Jon in an Embodied Presence intensive in downtown Manhattan many years ago and we stayed in touch. He trained as an actor and also found work as a world class puppeteer. In fact, Jon, was one of the puppeteers inside the puppet horse of the Broadway acclaimed...
Trapeze Artist
I don’t know about you – I love the trapeze act in the circus. It is death defying and exhilarating. We might believe that the artist’s most difficult act is to grab hold of the trapeze bar and to step off the landing. Even more demanding is the act of their living in...
