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.
Blog posts on this site tagged with 'Tone'
A Tone of Grace in Washington
Watching President Bush’s good-bye press conference made me sort of melancholy. His fractured speech and “Bush-isms” have made me crazy for eight years. And yet, in a strange way, I’ll miss them. But all misunderestimating aside, I’ve been impressed with Bush since the election. He seems to be making every effort to ensure we hear a different tone from [...]
So This is It. Isn’t It?
Two very important speeches tonight. I consider them the reward for the political junkies who have spent five months – ah, who are we kidding, the last year – enthralled by each campaign stop; each beer shooter; gutter ball and each slur thrown from the pulpit. One of my favorite political strategists said this morning [...]
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 [...]
Now the Fun Starts
So Pennsylvanians did their thing. Now the real fun starts. Fun, that is, if you make a living delivering speeches, watching speeches and coaching others who need to speak well to do well. That’s what I do. And it’s why this time in the political cycle is more fun for me than a weekend at [...]
A Dissapointing Debate
Oh, I had been hoping for something more. The Great Pennsylvania Debate turned into a slow rake over old coals – especially for Senator Obama. Some say the real loser was ABC News – I say voters lost the most. It was an opportunity to move the conversation forward – on health care, the economy, [...]