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Laura Penn: Wow Your Audience With Stage Presence

Fri, 08 May 2015 14:30:27 +0300 by Oscar 2 Comments

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Laura PennLaura Penn, PhD is an experienced and well-rounded public speaking coach.  As a Toastmasters European champion of public speaking, author of the book How to Enhance the Performance of Public Speaking: A Pocket Coach and a trained performer in theater and dance, she helps individuals become effective public speakers. Based in Switzerland, she provides custom-tailored, interactive training in public speaking for clients and organizations in the academic, not-for-profit and private sectors. She also serves as a speaker coach for a wide variety of TEDx events.

How to Enhance the Performance of Public Speaking: A Pocket Coach

Laura noticed that people don’t consider public speaking as a performance. Published in 2013, this book describes the elements of performance of speaking. The book also serves as a public speaking journal.

What is stage presence?

Laura’s definition of stage presence is: the ability to wow your audience with your charisma and energy.

Main elements of stage presence

Stage presence is a combination of:

  1. How you use your eyes.
  2. How you smile.
  3. How you stand, your posture.

Related: Being an authentic speaker

Three great examples of stage presence

Jane Goodall, a conservationist. Small woman, but she exudes inner power.

Bill Clinton. Stage presence in a conversational way, approachable.

Martin Luther King. A leader who made you feel safe, who guided you.

Her favorite quotation

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, it’s not going to get better.” — Dr. Seuss (from his book “The Lorax”)

Recommended book

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by  George Leonard

Routine to Shine

You can do this daily: turn on a reality TV show, and turn the volume off. Sit down and watch it for 10 minutes, and study the gestures, micro-movements, expressions to learn the skills for yourself. Be a student of body language.

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