How to Succeed in Public Speaking

When you have to speak in front of a large audience, do your palms get sweaty, does your hear trace, does your voice quiver from nervousness? If so, you’ll want to attend this IABC event.

Tony Collings, an Emmy-Award winning, former CNN correspondent and consultant who provides one-on-one public speaking coaching to clients will provide IABC members and guests with tips on how to deal with your nervousness, how to improve the writing of your speech and how to deliver it in a way that really connect with your audience.

About Tony Collings:

Tony Collings is a former CNN foreign and Washington correspondent. He was with CNN for 16 years and was part of a team that won an Emmy award for news coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Prior to CNN he was the Newsweek bureau chief in London and Bonn. Earlier he was an AP correspondent in Moscow, London and Bonn, and a Wall Street Journal correspondent in New York. Since 1997 he has been teaching at U-M in the Department of Communication Studies, first as a Marsh Professor for two years and after that as a lecturer in communication studies. He gives three courses each semester: Supreme Court News Coverage, Foreign News Coverage, and Ethics Issues in Journalism.