Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
Archive for May, 2008
Chicken Soup for a Hard Drive’s Soul
Ohhhh. Ohhhh. NO! I was spending Memorial Day working at a relaxed but constant pace. I knew that on this day, my clients were bellying up to their barbeques, away from email, and needing nothing from me. I could do more than catch up - I could get ahead. It was even a working lunch. Annie Chun’s Asian [...]
Couldn’t Have Been Any Clearer
I am all for clear communication and sending the intended message, but this one hurt. The phone rang last night at about 8:30, and the caller ID said “TV Survey”. I like taking surveys, so I picked up: Automated Voice: We are conducting a survey on television viewing habits. If you are interested in participating, [...]
Hillary Clinton and the Lesson of Mo Betta
This is generally not a political blog, and any political leanings I have are not revealed here. But something has been bothering me, and I need to get it out. I think it speaks to a broader issue of repressed emotions regarding a fish. Like many of you, I am a political junkie and a [...]
Daily Presentation Practice
“I have no time to practice my presentation skills” I hear it at least once in every session. Busy executives who just can’t find the time. What they are trying to convey is that taking a few minutes every week, or even an hour before an actual presentation, will prevent them from doing the 100-other-important-things [...]
Tone in the Final Stretch
If you’ve spent some time on my blog, you know that I believe that tone is one of the greatest tools of speech communication. While mine is not a political blog, I find that the political season provides an incredible speech-making laboratory. So I strapped myself in last night for what I knew would be a good [...]