Join Suzan and Stanford's Matt Abrahams as they discuss tips on being a flexible and impactful presenter, even when anxiety presents itself.
January 2023
ExecU Podcast
Episode 11: Speaking Up without Freaking Out with Matt Abrahams, Stanford University
BRIEF SUMMARY OF EPISODE
Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He has published research articles on strategic communication, cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication. Matt recently published the third edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who suffer from anxiety around speaking in public.
Additionally, Matt developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global learning and development organizations.
Matt is also founder and principal at TFTS Communications LLC, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. He is also the host of the Stanford GSB podcast called Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast, and curator of the NoFreakingSpeaking.com website.
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KEY TAKEAWAY
“As our species was evolving where you were within your group, [that’s where] you hung out. It meant survival, it meant food reproduction, et cetera. So anything that put your status at risk was something you should be very concerned about. And getting up in front of others and doing something embarrassing or wrong could negatively impact your status. And that's why we see anxiety around speaking in front of others across most cultures.”
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No Freaking Speaking Website with resources to help improve your public speaking: https://nofreakingspeaking.com/
Think Fast Talk Smart: The Podcast:
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/business-podcasts/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
Matt’s book: Speaking Without Freaking Out
https://nofreakingspeaking.com/thebook/
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