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Doug Staneart

Doug Staneart is the CEO of The Leader's Institute. LLC and founder of the Fearless Presentations class. He is author of Fearless Presentations, Mastering Presentations, and 28 Ways to Influence People.

7 Qualities of a Good Public Speaker Every Presenter Needs - Featured
7 Qualities of a Good Public Speaker Every Presenter Needs Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

What are the most important qualities of a good public speaker? What makes a great presenter? Just what are the fundamentals of a good public speaker that allow one orator to get up in front of an audience and mesmerize the crowd while another fails? When I first started teaching the Fearless Presentations ® classes,…

Start Your Own Public Speaking Company from Scratch
Start Your Own Public Speaking Company from Scratch Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

This is part five of a five-part series about how to start a public speaking career. In the past episodes, we focused on how to use public speaking within your current career, both as an income stream and as marketing. We also covered a session on how to become a professional speaker for an established…

Speak Within Your Current Industry
Become a Professional Public Speaker by Speaking within Your Current Industry Podcasts, presentation skills

One of the easiest ways to become a professional public speaker is to speak to groups in your current industry. In this article, we will show you several ways to get paid as a professional speaker without having to change careers. This article is a continuation of our previous article, How to Start a Public Speaking…

Hitching Your Wagon to Another Company
Become a Certified Speaker for an Established Presentation Company Podcasts, presentation skills

We are continuing our series on How to Start a Public Speaking Career. In this session, we will show a shortcut to becoming a certified public speaker. You can do this by working for an organization that is already an established public speaking or facilitation business. While our first post mentioned a wide variety of approaches,…

How to Start a Public Speaking Career
How to Start a Public Speaking Career Podcasts

  Being a professional speaker is a very lucrative and rewarding profession. But if you have never actually made money from speaking before, you may be looking into how to start a public speaking career. As an FYI, the way that I did it is not the ideal way to become a professional speaker. In fact, when I give advice to new speakers,…

3 Simple Ways to Create Better PowerPoint Presentations
3 Simple Ways to Create Better PowerPoint Presentations Free Public Speaking Tips, Podcasts

If you deliver presentations at the office, you’ll often look for ways to create a good PowerPoint presentation…. But let’s face it: most meetings are pretty boring. They are also repetitive. So, if you are a speaker, and you deliver Microsoft PowerPoint slideshows, they can be a challenge. As the speaker, we want to do…