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 October, 2010
Robocalls Continue to Dial the Wrong Number
As expected, the phone rang at dinner time last night. It has been ringing every night at dinner time for the last three weeks. It’s always the same call – the annoying pre-recorded political call – lambasting the other side, whichever the other side is. The last few have been especially annoying, because they always start [...]
Presentation Tips – Authenticity
Of the many good presentation tips and techniques, there is one too often overlooked. It is simply autheniticity. A spokesperson may be cool and calm. They breath right. They project beautifully. Excellent, natural gestures. All of those things are important. But what about the ability to speak in a way that says, “this is who [...]
What’s Your Story?
Some months, I spend a majority of my time doing media and message development training. Lately, though, I’ve been doing a lot of executive presentation training, and I’ve noticed that most executives have one thing in common. They haven’t given much thought to their story. Oh, they spend hours thinking about their presentation. What data [...]
Jon Stewart and the National Conversation
First, you need to know that I am a Jon Stewart fan. I was listening to him on NPR last night, and he reaffirmed that his show is not intended to be a news show (although an alarming number of people – most of them young – say The Daily Show is their #1 source [...]