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CEO Presentation Rockstars

by David Thomas CEO Presentation Skills Coach
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  • #169 Prince Harry Embarrassing Speaking FAIL!

    October 22, 2026 · 12 min

    Prince Harry, the ginger whinger, spoke recently at the Clinton Global Initiative and crashed and burned. Why? Because his teleprompter went down and he simply walked off stage half way through his talk. Now, tech fails are common but…

  • #168 How To Become So Good At Speaking It Makes The Audience Gasp

    October 14, 2026 · 13 min

    CCLM. The Conscious Competency Learning Model has been around for decades and highlights what we all go through when learning a new skill. This is the ladder of speaking success. Unconscious Incompetent - Shit and don't know you…

  • #167 I Phoned the Guy Who Called My Talk SH*T!

    September 6, 2026 · 31 min

    18 months into my career as a speaker, I got the worst feedback I have ever had on a feedback form. Someone gave me 3/20 for a talk and wrote the word SH*T! So I phoned the person who wrote it. That was a moment, I can tell you. It was…

  • #166 Lessons Learned Speaking At Wembley Stadium

    May 22, 2026 · 35 min

    I spoke at Wembley Stadium to 300 leaders — here's everything I did to prepare, what went wrong on the day and the lessons every presenter needs to hear. Whether you're stepping onto a stage for the first time or you've been presenting…

  • #165 Do you NEED to memorise a speech?

    August 15, 2025 · 18 min

    When non-professional speakers can memorise a speech and deliver it without notes, that puts them in the top 1%. But Jamie Oliver won 2010 TED speaker of the Year while clutching a pile of notes a mile thick all the way through. So which…

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  • #164 The perfect structure for EVERY talk

    August 8, 2025 · 16 min

    Want to smash that next presentation? Put your content in the right order. There is one structure that is perfect for every single presentation whether that is a keynote speech, a sales pitch or 1-2-1 appraisal. But hardly anyone does…

  • #163 Get Some Baubles In Your Talk

    July 17, 2025 · 19 min

    A presentation with only education in it is like a Xmas tree without baubles. Boring and forgettable. Stories, humour and entertainment are the baubles, tinsel and lighting that bring every presentation alive. In this edpisode, David…

  • #162 Three things you need in EVERY presentation

    May 6, 2025 · 11 min

    There are three things that EVERY presentation should have - education, inspiration and entertainment. Problem is, most presentations are 99% education and that makes them a lecture. And no-one wants to hear a lecture.

  • #161 12 hard lessons I learned from speaking in 2023

    January 21, 2024 · 40 min

    David is not just a presentation skills coach, he is out there banging out talks in front of audiences every week. In this episode, he outlines 12 different lessons he learned from 12 different events, one from each month. As a leader…

  • #160 Is AI going to make presentation skills obsolete?

    October 17, 2023 · 15 min

    David recently watched a fantastic interview with the creator of DeepTomCruise, a TikTok channel. He thought it would be a frivolous (ish) conversation about creating fun videos. But it was way different than that. The creator of the…

  • #159 Death to Powerpoint (as we know it)

    April 3, 2023 · 16 min

    'Death By Powerpoint' has been a well worn phrase that shows just how horrifically bad most presenters use this application. But in this episode, David explains how Powerpoint - and more specifically what we put on the screen - can…

  • #158 How to be the host with the most

    March 27, 2023 · 20 min

    Being the MC of a conference is a job that can make or break a fantastic event. David was recently asked to coach a client to perform this role who had volunteered to do it but had never done it before. In this episode, he shares the…

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About the show

David Thomas, global speaker and executive speaking coach, shows leaders how to handle their nerves when presenting, really connect with their audience and walk off feeling like a presentation rockstar! https://www.CreatingPresentationRockstars.com