Jun 23, 2022

Before a speaker steps up to the microphone, there's usually somebody who introduces them. And that introduction could be helping to set the stage and prime the audience.

But too many introductions are just tedious recitals of a speaker's biography. And they're so loooonnnng. Instead of revving an audience up, they put...

Mar 1, 2022

Pick up a collection of speeches or quotations from history, and chances are most of those voices belong to men.

That's changing. More women are claiming their time at the microphone. And it turns out the oratory of the past was a lot more female than many of its curators would have us think.

One woman in particular,...