by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2016
Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention is earning high marks for its “emotion.” The word—“emotional”—appears in about half a million links to articles about the speech. There are several ways that speakers can incorporate emotion into their...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 18, 2016
VIDEO: Hit Movies And Winning Sales Pitches Follow The Same Formula If you’ve found yourself singing along to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” then you’ve been attracted by a formula. Hit pop songwriters follow a formula called track-and-hook that make songs almost...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jul 5, 2016
In the last ten years neuroscientists have learned more about storytelling than we’ve known since our ancestors drew story pictures on cave walls. We know what stories work, how they work and we can prove it. As the House of Cards actor Kevin Spacey once told an...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 29, 2016
VIDEO: What Expert Presenters Do Differently The CEO of a large company lost the audience—his top salespeople—in the first two minutes of his presentation. I was there to witness it. Slides were out of place and financial data was wrong. “Sorry guys. I threw this...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2016
This week marks the finale of an unusual pitch competition sponsored by Virgin Media Business (the business broadband division of Virgin Media). More than 3,000 entrepreneurs from the U.K. and Ireland took part in VOOM 2016 and submitted pitches for the opportunity to...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 31, 2016
VIDEO: Why We’re Hardwired To Find Stories Of Struggle Irresistible My father Francesco spent his teenage years in an internment camp during World War II. His family was among the 165,000 Italian expatriates living and working in East Africa when the war broke out....
