Speaker coaches tend to come from two different backgrounds and ways of working. There are those who focus more on the speakers’ delivery, their posture, and their voice. All the ways that a narrative can be more lively, all the ways that, you, the speaker will interact and resonate with your audience. The ways you will move and look and breathe. Many, maybe most, of these speaker coaches have an acting or theatrical background.
And then there are speaker coaches like me. The writing geeks. The ones who jump in a draft, change the structure and the flow. Always in an open dialogue with the speaker, until the talk feels authentic.
For our entire life we’ve learned to “write for the eye”. To write for those reading our texts: throughout school, in essays, academic theses and work papers. Public speaking is, however, an entirely different thing. Your text needs to be “written for the ear”. This is where I, and those like me, come in.
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