Monthly Archives: January 2023

Are You Taking Full Advantage of Your Network?

By |2023-01-27T14:40:01-05:00January 27th, 2023|Business, Deborah Grayson Riegel in Harvard Business Review|

Over a breakfast of lattes and pumpkin muffins at my local coffee shop, a colleague and I reflected on how weird it felt to be meeting people in person post-Covid. We discussed the awkwardness of handshakes versus fist bumps, whether to sit inside or outside, and what to say or do when someone coughs and

The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First

By |2023-01-27T14:28:43-05:00January 27th, 2023|Business, Deborah Grayson Riegel in Harvard Business Review, Speaking|

Several years ago, I traveled from New York to Geneva, Switzerland to be the closing keynote speaker for the World Communication Forum. I was excited to have the opportunity to speak with global leaders about how nonnative English speakers can present their ideas — and themselves — with greater clarity and confidence. For my allotted

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