Speaking
Speaking should give people something they can use.
An audience is giving you its time. Bob believes they should leave with ideas they can understand, remember, and apply after the event is over.
His speaking programs address leadership, communication, technology, entrepreneurship, and career development based on the audience in the room.
Every engagement starts with the audience and the reason they are in the room.
Formats
Keynotes
A focused message for the full room.
Keynotes are developed around the event, audience, and central theme. The goal is to give people a clear message, useful perspective, and ideas they can continue discussing after the session ends.
Breakout Sessions
Take the conversation further.
Breakout sessions provide more room to explore a topic, work through examples, involve the audience, and address questions that would be difficult to cover during a larger keynote.
Special Events
Build the presentation around the occasion.
Company meetings, leadership events, conferences, association programs, and other special gatherings often require something more specific than an off-the-shelf speech. Bob works with organizers to understand the audience and build the session around the reason everyone is there.
Virtual Programs
A virtual audience still needs to be engaged.
Virtual presentations require tighter pacing, clear structure, and deliberate audience involvement. Bob adapts the material and delivery for the format rather than treating a virtual event like a stage presentation with a webcam pointed at it.
Process
How the program is built
The audience comes first.
Understand the room
Before the event, Bob works with the organizer to understand who will be in the room, why they are attending, what the organization wants to accomplish, and what the audience should leave with.
Shape the program
From there, the format, examples, emphasis, and takeaways are adjusted to fit the event rather than forcing it into a predefined speech.
Walk in prepared
That preparation also gives Bob a better understanding of the room before he ever walks into it.
Topic Areas
Bob’s speaking work can include leadership, communication, entrepreneurship, technology and AI, software quality, and career development. These subjects often overlap. A talk on technical leadership may touch communication, career development, and the challenge of explaining complicated work to people outside your field. The final subject and emphasis should be based on the audience rather than forcing every event into a predefined speech.
Tell Bob about the audience.
Share the event, audience, format, date, and what you would like the session to accomplish. That gives us enough information to start a useful conversation.