AROUND THE WORLD IN RHETORIC
Oct 14, 2026
Speechwriters Contain Multitudes. This Room Contains Them.
The PSA World Conference "sells out every year at a little over a hundred participants," I told the Aspen Institute conference planner before hearing myself add, "But it feels like a thousand."
EVENTS
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Speechwriting School
OCT 26 -
PSA World Conference
OCT 26 - 28 -
Leadership Communication Academy
DEC 2 - 3 -
Professional Development Academy
ON DEMAND -
Custom Workshops
Our trainers come to you.
Jun 16, 2026
Another Speech Anthology
Asked and answered: "What good are speech anthologies in the age of the internet? I can go look up any speech from anywhere, and possibly hear and see it—why do I need it sitting on my shelf?"
Apr 23, 2026
Exec Comms in the Era of ‘Because I Said So’
Yes, the external environment affects your internal executive communications. The question is, what are you going to do about it?
VITAL SPEECHES OF RECENT WEEKS
"The difference between a life that sounds like music and a life that sounds like noise ... is whether you're honest enough to hear which string has drifted out of tune, and humble enough to make the adjustment."
We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is.
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask ... Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles ... Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles, invoking an action that is illegal."
"When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all of us. This is about you."
"Today we no longer need to ask: Did 8 May free us? What we need to ask is: How can we stay free?"
Europeans are emerging from denial. In a single day in Munich, they understood that Ukraine’s survival and Europe’s future are in their hands.
"After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities—once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends—after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face—what comes next?"
How can we seem indifferent when stakeholders are passionate about—and often personally invested in—social issues, including human rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights? … How can any organization argue that any of this is not core to what they do, or who they are?
In your case, your weapons are your performances. In your case, your weapons are your records. In your case, your weapons are the emotions of sport.
"Listen: If Harriet Tubman ran to freedom, you can run to your destiny! Martin Luther King didn't march for you to get a degree and chill! ... Black folks didn't pick cotton so you could look cute in a black robe!"

