Episode NotesJohn Zimmer (connect on LinkedIn) is a Keynote Speaker, Presentation Skills Trainer, and Public Speaking Coach.On top of that, he is also a 9-times District Winner in Toastmasters Speech Contests, member of an Improv Troupe and blo

#28 - John Zimmer Pt.1 | Focusing Outward | 800 Blog Posts | YouTube Videos

Apr 28th, 2022 38m 21s

John Zimmer (connect on LinkedIn) is a Keynote Speaker, Presentation Skills Trainer, and Public Speaking Coach.On top of that, he is also a 9-times District Winner in Toastmasters Speech Contests, member of an Improv Troupe and blogger at manne

#27 - Souvik Mukherjee | How to Become a Virtual Assistant

Mar 9th, 2022 37m 56s

Souvik Mukherjee (connect on LinkedIn) is a Distinguished Toastmaster, and business professional with experience in Operations, Strategy and Project Management.Currently running his side-hustle as a Virtual Assistant, he met me on Twitter, wher

#26 - Percy Roland Pt.2 | Real Estate and Volunteering | Creativity | Tips to Start in Real Estate

Mar 2nd, 2022 42m 18s

Percy Roland (connect on LinkedIn) is a Sales Executive at Mas Property Marbella.He is a luxury real estate specialist with a passion for communication, public speaking, debating, writing and art. Winner of various speech contests and speaking

#25 - Percy Roland Pt.1 | A Toastmaster in the Real Estate Business

Feb 23rd, 2022 38m 48s

#24 Martin Svaneborg | Why Would an Actor Join Toastmasters? | Unusual Book on Public Speaking

Feb 17th, 2022 50m 13s

Martin Svaneborg (connect on LinkedIn) is a Speaker, Actor and author of the book Trinity:The I, We and They of Communication.His Toastmasters journey is different from most people, as his was preceded by a couple of decades of an acting career

#23 Sabyasachi Sengupta - First-time Skier at 36 | What is a Plan B | Writing and Speaking

Feb 10th, 2022 44m 16s

Sabyasachi Sengupta (connect on LinkedIn) is a Keynote speaker on Change and Innovation, Storyteller and Pitch coach, Business Developer at ABN AMRO Bank and the Author of the book"What's your Plan B?"He is also an avid skier - just kidding, i

#22 Cecile Bastien Remy - From Toastmaster to TEDx Speaker

Feb 2nd, 2022 49m 54s

Cécile Bastien Remy (connect on LinkedIn) is a Trainer, Speaker and Founder at SPEAK4IMPACT, a faculty teacher of Applied Communication at SBS Swiss Business School, a TEDx Speaker and a long time Toastmaster.Her company SPEAK4IMPACT is helping

#21 Michal Juhas - Starting a Club vs Starting a Business

Jan 26th, 2022 39m 7s

Michal Juhas is a Tech Recruitment Expert who helps Recruitment, Sales, And Tech Teams Fill More IT Vacancies & Get Clients, Ex-CTO In A $70m Revenue Startup, Trained 27,000+ IT & HR Professionals Online.He was also a president of Prague's Boh

#20 Safura Atan - Workshops vs Speeches | Benefits of Competing in Toastmasters

Jan 19th, 2022 44m 49s

Safura Atan (Connect on LinkedIn) Co-founder and Managing Partner of StratNaViGo Consulting, where she is Facilitating entrepreneurialism via thought & action. and Humanizing innovation for the masses.Safura is the District 102 International Sp

#19 Andrei Popescu - Starting Out as a Trainer | Being the Guardian of the Flame | The Importance of the Number of Facebook Friends

Sep 30th, 2021 1h 4m

Andrei Popescu (connect on LinkedIn) is a Carnegie Master at Dale Carnegie Training, Associate Certified Coach (ICF), and Past District Director of District 95 at the time when District 110, the Wild East of Europe, was still part of it.To find

#18 Giorgio Ripamonti - C-Suite vs. Club Officers | Busy mindset | Balancing your life

Sep 22nd, 2021 47m 34s

Giorgio Ripamonti is an insurance industry 360° expert who worked across functions, from asset management, to sales, product development and strategy to name a few and who is very keen on continuous learning; [..] so keen that he just started a

#17 Alena Huberova - Training Program: From Idea to Delivery

Sep 15th, 2021 53m 5s

Alena Huberova (connect on LinkedIn) is a Trainer, speaker, and founder of SHELeads. A globetrotter, sports enthusiast and an optimist, with an insatiable curiosity about people, life, and business.In this episode we're going step-by-step throu

#16 John Cheng - Leading to Serve | Toastmasters Cultures | Bad reasons for tough feedback

Sep 8th, 2021 59m

John Cheng is a professor at Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan and member of a Toastmasters club Leadership Village. Earlier in his career he held various senior management positions in Corporate Banking, among them Senior Vice President,

#15 Iwona Winiarska | Agile and Toastmasters | Starting a Club | Case Study: Fixing the Officer Team

Aug 25th, 2021 53m 59s

Iwona Winiarska (get in touch via LinkedIn or follow on Twitter) is an Agile Coach and Delivery Consultant. In 2020, she was a Finalist in the Women in Tech Excellence Awards: Woman of the Year.In 2014, Iwona was the founder and main driver of

#14 Zain ul Abidin - Iterative Software and Speech Development | Accelerated Leadership | Childhood Attempts

Aug 18th, 2021 46m 50s

Zain ul Abidin (LinkedIn) is a Product Manager at ResMed, medical equipment company. He has 11 years of experience in software development, going through the roles of Software Developer, Software Architect and now Product Manager.He started wor

#13 Mark Snow - Human Factor in Change Management | Pathways Roll-Out | Selfish and Selfless

Aug 11th, 2021 52m 58s

Mark Snow (Connect on LinkedIn) is a Community Problem Solver and Change Agent living in Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.He works in the Department of Local Government, Racing, and Multicultural Affairs in Brisbane.Held multiple leadership r

#12 Florian Bay - Toastmasters Leadership | Why Clubs Need Districts | Vision to Execution

Aug 4th, 2021 46m 13s

Florian Bay is a Presentation & Leadership Skills Trainer and International Speaker. In 2019-2020, he was the District Director of Toastmasters District 91 UK South. I can say he is one of the most passionate Toastmasters I've ever met in my li

#11 Ovidiu Oltean - Contest prep Step by Step | What Feedback to Listen To | Reinventing Yourself

Jul 28th, 2021 1h 9m

Ovidiu Oltean (connect on LinkedIn) is a Professional Public Speaker & Public Speaking Coach from Cluj, Romania.He is a three-times District champion and 16-times national champion in different speech contest disciplines.In this episode, Ovidiu

#10 Bogdan Ghiorghiu - Lazy Scientists | Speech Contests Improving Real Presentations | Finding Passion

Jul 21st, 2021 55m 3s

Bogdan Ghiorghiu is a science communicator and a physics teacher, born in Romania, now living in Denmark.He is a Toastmasters District 110 Humorous Speech champion and a regular contestant in both online and in person contestsIn this episode, h

#9 Alex Popa - Brown Belt Attitutde | Blockchain's Wild Wild West | Building up your network

Jul 14th, 2021 29m 23s

Alex Popa is an Associate Director in Blockchain for Pharma Supply Chain at MSD (connect on LinkedIn). Over the past couple of years, his career is connected to the area of Blockchain and personalized healthcare, developing and implementing inn

#8 Adrian Salasan - Upgrading your remote set-up | How volunteering makes you a better manager | Soft motivation

Jul 7th, 2021 48m 23s

Adrian Salasan is leading a software architecture team and the Cluj-Napoca office for TouchPoint Medical and he's Founder & Trainer Consultant at Live to Learn SRL. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.He was a Toastmasters Area Director, Divis

#7 Olga Rudakova - Evil Pie Charts | Workshop as a Living Organism | Finding Content

Jun 30th, 2021 35m 33s

Olga Rudakova is a Finance professional, Data skills trainer, and Dashboard design consultant.In the past, she was an auditor with PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Finance Manager with Tesco and Mars, and Client Solutions Manager in DataSapiens, a star

#6 Ray Walsh - Improving your speech content | How to think of your audience | Writing a book | Consulting Internal Communications

Jun 23rd, 2021 43m 47s

Ray Walsh is an internal communications consultant, who helps multinational organizations with communications, content creation and management, and developing practitioner skills.While American, Ray spent most of his professional career living

#5 Daniel Sullivan - Scrum and how to use it for organizing a conference

Jun 16th, 2021 46m 10s

Daniel Sullivan (connect on LinkedIn) is a Scrum coach. In his role he helps teams become more effective by using the Scrum agile framework.He is an agilist that has served various roles (software developer, systems analyst, business analyst, t