Last night I watched the semi-finals of Dancing with the Stars while lying in bed eating dinner with my husband and my three cats. Tease me all you want, but it was a whole lot more fun to watch people in satin and sequins mamboing and fox-trotting than, say, watching doom and gloom on the [...]

When I teach presentation skills to my coaching and training clients, I always tell them to prepare to the point that they know their material inside out.  Because, as jazz musician, Bradford Marsalis has pointed out, “If you’re not prepared, it’s too late.”  Of course, this applies to anything you’re trying to accomplish in life, [...]