“I wouldn’t have had it any other way”
Jul 22, 2010
Speeches from the retirement ceremony for General Stanley McChrystal, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. July 23, 2010
Next Generation Walmart: “Let’s look ahead 20 years from now”
Jun 03, 2010
Address by MIKE DUKE, President and CEO, Walmart; delivered at the retailer’s 2010 Shareholder’s Meeting, Fayetteville, Ark., June 4, 2010
Floods, Oil Spills, Tornados: The Psychology of Resilience
Jun 21, 2010
Address by ROBERT L. VENINGA, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; delivered to an Emergency Preparedness Conference, Fargo, N.D., June 22, 2010
WATCH: “The Presidency … Has Become Symbolic of Overreaching”
Sep 19, 2010
Address by Mike Pence, Indiana Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives; delivered at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 20, 2010
“Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin assed forehead eyeball monster?”
Nov 01, 2010
Address by Jon Stewart, comedian; delivered at the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2010
Save the Date! Vital Speeches cohosts all-new conference on leadership communication
Oct 30, 2009
For climate and company, I think you’ll agree, the conference to attend next year is the one in Phoenix, February 24-25. Building and Protecting Reputation: Executive Communication and Speechwriting in …
Book Review: Theodore Sorensen and the Kennedys: A Life of Public Service
Dec 18, 2019
Review of: Theodore Sorensen and the Kennedys: A Life of Public Service by Michelle A. Ulyatt, PhD (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 257 pages) In this age of Trump, as Michelle Ulyatt …
Google CEO Schmidt isn’t apologizing about Davos; but what IS he saying about it?
Feb 11, 2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a piece in the Huffington Post that methinks doth protest too much. There’s this opening. It’s easy to sneer at Davos as a place where …
A new one on me: the town-hall/brown-bag hybrid
Mar 25, 2010
Dateline, Calgary. Coming to you from RonCon 2010, where I’m talking executive communication and employee communication. During my half-day rap yesterday on speechwriting and exec comms, an audience member said …
Vital Speeches finds challenges outnumber opportunities two to one
Aug 30, 2010
Slamming together Vital Speeches of the Day this morning, I wasn’t sure whether I had or hadn’t inserted a George Allen speech into the final document, so I searched for …