Laurie’s interviews are informative, humorous and eye opening. Below are some recent questions with Laurie’s candid responses.
- Q. What is the biggest challenge for most people to overcome on their way to becoming a successful speaker?
- A. Usually, a combination of fear, tension, not owning who you are and therefore unable to make the most of it will result in an unwillingness to risk. To succeed at anything, you’ve got to be willing to risk!
- Q. How essential is the role of self-esteem for achievement in one’s personal and business life?
- A. You must know who you are and what you have to offer. An audience can smell low self-esteem … and for a speaker that is disastrous.
- Q. How did you get started in this business?
- A. Believe it or not, a light bulb went off while I was watching a psychologist on TV during a program that featured the story of a whale and the efforts to rescue it.
- Q. How do you go about getting people to change their behaviors – especially when they are standing in front of an audience, filled with tension?
- A. As an actor, I knew all about tension, first hand. The exception was that my audience (most of the time) was the eye of the camera. There is no better teaching tool than a video camera. It’s tough at first for the client, but we usually get past that quickly and move on to the tension demon. We cover just about every part of the human body, and the role each one plays in successful presentations, in our work. This is what makes Laurie Burton Training so unique – and fun!
For more info and to book Laurie to speak,
please email: laurie@laurieburtontraining.com