The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

The audience does not need to tune themselves to you - you need to tune your message to fit them. Skilled presenting requires you to understand their hearts and minds and create a message to resonate with what's already there. Your audience will be significantly moved if you send a message that is tuned to their needs and desires. They might even quiver with enthusiasm and act in concert to create beautiful results.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and globally, we have some of the biggest problems to solve we have ever faced. We need innovative ways to solve our problems and communicating the solutions will be paramount. Original thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration are all important skills for our future.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.