Powerful Presenting For Leaders
David Thomas, global speaker and executive speaking coach, shows leaders how to handle their nerves when presenting, really connect with their audience and walk off feeling like a presentation rockstar!
https://www.CreatingPresentationRockstars.com
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 165
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#45 Moderate your presentation according to the audience
David recently spent a day doing presentation skills coaching with a team of 8 people. Unusually, the feedback was mixed. Question is – how did David deal with it?
#44 There are only two types of presenters
As David has gone along his merry journey called life, he has learned one thing. Whether it was becoming a world class memoriser, national level competitive bodybuilder or an international speaker fo…
#43 EVERY time you speak, it’s a presentation
David recently had an old friend up at his house for a day doing presentation skills coaching. When he did the exit interview at the end of the day, he asked him why he had chosen David. He said it w…
#42 Use every trick at your disposal to keep your audience fully engaged
David did a motivational keynote speech for a sales conference just before Xmas in Dubai. One specific request from the guy who booked his was to memorise and recite a pack of playing cards. Two peop…
#41 Feel the fear and say it anyway
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 somet…
#40 10 things David learned in 2019
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 lesso…
#39 The first time David has been nervous in 15 years
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 pu…
#38 Music is brilliant for changing the state of your audience
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 …
#37 We don't know what we don't know
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 h…
#36 Death makes things become very real very quickly
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.
#35 Advice from a world champion - no, not David
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 – consis…
#34 Learn to manage or remove because it's unlikely that it will go away on its own
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,…
#33 Be the best version of yourself in front of every audience
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.
#32 Lessons learned from his first bodybuilding competition
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 ou…
#31 Where are you on the spectrum of certainty?
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 …
#30 Any presentation is the sum of many parts
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 e…
#29 Have you got what it takes to go up the value chain?
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,…
#28 Believe it or not, the best person to help conquer your nerves is you
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…
#27 The most boring story ever told
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 mos…
#26 The day David went to prison
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 m…