The Risk of Being Amazing

As CEO of Ireland-based ecoLegacy, Tony Ennis delivered a speech in Oxford with the support of veteran speechwriter and author Charles Crawford—“Why? The Future of the Funeral Services Sector”—that won a 2017 Cicero …

The meaning of life, speechwriters edition

So we have it all in one place, here are the answers (expressed here and on LinkedIn) to my question about the higher social purpose of speechwriting. “Why don’t you …

Post-speech jitters: It is often thus

People talk about the anxiety they feel before the speech, but rarely do they acknowledge how it feels after a speech. An acquaintance recently gave a much-fretted-about toast at her …