Sims Wyeth, a top executive presentation coach, is the president of M Sims Wyeth LLC. He is also the author of The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking.
You may not have noticed, but Vice President Kamala Harris made a pretty good speech on November 7th, 2020. It was good because it got right to the point. She started with the pitch, not with the wind up. She… Read More »A Wealth of Information
Words are the fuel of courtship. Other species win their mates through a series of escalating dances, but humans use conversation. Geoffrey Miller, an American evolutionary psychologist, notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. And… Read More »Presenting is Seducing
It was raining in the park. Trees were tossing their leaves and the wind was blowing hard. On Psy Blog that morning I learned that a twenty- to thirty-minute walk in nature could release a whole lot of stress, so… Read More »Michelin Tire Man
A few days ago I got yanked out of my routine. JURY DUTY! Up early, navigating through a driving rain to Newark, New Jersey in bumper-kissing traffic. Idling in line, as my fellow jurors picked parking slots, I crept up… Read More »Jury Duty is a Pain, Except…
Peter Victor Ueberroth was the leader of the 1984 Olympics. I was a young speech coach working with the Chairman of KPMG, the global consulting firm. Ueberroth was the keynote speaker the morning of the first day of the firm’s… Read More »Buckets of Tears
Loitering one day in my office I decided to look for words that denigrate styles of speech. I found 84 words that did just that. For example, “That guy is a blabber mouth.” The next day I looked for words… Read More »The Speech We Need Now