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.
On Commencement Speeches
Posted on June 10, 2009. Filed under: Latest News 1 Comment
I’m a commencement speech junkie. I like to study all kinds of speeches, but grad night speeches always appeal to my inner softie. I imagine myself – fresh-faced at 22; whole world ahead of me – taking in one of this month’s commencement addresses. I can get choked-up pretty quickly listening to all of those well-worded challenges and inspiring prose. Then I listen to it retrospectively. Because I am so far from that fresh-faced 22-year old, I can now distinguish wisdom from hyperbole.
I also read all the commencement speech reviews. This one by speechwriter Fletcher Dean is my favorite, and I appreciate that he put so many the best (and worst) speeches in one place for me. Enjoy!
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Thanks for the nice words, Lynn. – Fletcher