Every participant's communication and presentation skills (body language, word usage and voice tone) are diagnosed, videotaped - and dramatically improved - by simply adjusting a few words, the tone of voice, or some tiny aspects of their body language. With the help of the audience, Richard turns scared, mediocre speakers into dynamic, charismatic personalities within five to ten minutes, maximum.

Based on his Prentice Hall Press publication released October 1, 2002, Richard takes audiences on a magical tour through the best, most inspirational speeches of the PAST 100 YEARS. We learn cadence and delivery from John F. Kennedy’s “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech, the secret of how to motivate an audience from Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream”, the secrets of generating credibility and “gravitas” from Winston Churchill’s “Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears” speech, the awesome power of emotion and humility from Lou Gehrig’s “I Am The Luckiest Man” address at Yankee Stadium and further lessons from 16 other global masters of communication.

We make fun of him, impeach him, and don’t respect him, but Bill Clinton is without a doubt the best one-on-one communicator and one of the best public speakers ever to inhabit the White House.

Richard, after studying him for eight years (including meeting with him and watching him work the rope lines at countless events), has boiled down the secrets of Bill Clinton’s Teflon, charisma and charm into 5 easy to understand “curricula” – Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior and Graduate. Filled with funny and powerful Bill Clinton anecdotes this keynote, derived from the upcoming book, will enable even hard core Republicans to benefit from the eight years of the Clinton presidency.

As a performance coach for executives, politicians, celebrities and on-air talent, Richard focuses heavily on the little nuances in body language that can create hugely different impressions and results.

This workshop presents a brief overview of the “People Reading” tools that enable executives and managers to get enormously valuable information about how to best interact with prospective and present employees, co-workers, clients, prospects, and even spouses and children.

During the session, everyone will learn to:

• Identify the 4 basic personality types from the way they walk, talk and even to where their eyes go when they’re thinking.
• Spot when someone is being untruthful.
• Interpret dozens of revealing body language “statements” that typically go completely unnoticed.

Perhaps most importantly, everyone learns how to make the tiny changes in their own body language that communicate confidence, authority and power.

As a metaphor for “breaking through”, but mainly because it is tremendously exciting, every person on the team has the experience of literally breaking a 3/4″ thick wood board with their bare hands.

The workshop starts with exercises in mind-over-matter and martial art skills that will amaze even the most skeptical. Then we move to exercises that teach the specific tools required to break the board effortlessly – balance, centering, breathing and mental focus. And then, with everyone cheering everyone else on – even the scared and the timid – each person breaks through. By the end of the workshop the participants realize that they are capable of achieving what they once thought impossible.

Games and experiential exercises, based on Richard’s workbook, to stretch or blow the mind and teach participants how to think “outside the box”. Everyone learns how to be more creative and to “see” themselves, their jobs and their life in new and inspiring way.

Instruction about and experience in four conflict resolution tools that will enable participants to:

• Take the “energy” out of almost any conflict in less than 5 minutes
• Turn potential or actual conflict situations into positive opportunities

Without a doubt the most important sales and business communication skill but one that is almost never taught and often ignored. Participants learn how to listen in a completely different way and learn how to talk less and communicate much, much more. Specific body language tools such as “Full Body Listening” are demonstrated and even mastered in the workshop.