No yawning in the back rows when Stacey Hanke takes the podium. All eyes are ahead, thought processes engaged and involved in what she’s saying, for her energy and enthusiasm really are contagious. She’s resolutely focused on the take-away message and the end result for you, which is action. As a popular and seasoned instructor on “Executive Presentation Skills” for MBA students at DePaul University in Chicago, she formulated her own convincing approaches to speaking that captivate, engage and connect—the same principles she’ll teach you.

With more than 500 speeches to her credit, Stacey will excite the crowd with her ideas, but unlike others, she’ll deliver practical and immediate results. “Rah, Rah!” is great, but Stacey involves the audience in interactive exercises, inviting eager audience members on stage to demonstrate valuable skills and techniques they can immediately use to grow personally and professionally.

Call it her “Aha!" factor as participants enter sessions “not knowing what they don’t know,” then leave with greatly heightened self-awareness to begin changing their communication behavior in just 21 days. Her keynote is a lot like teaching golf, introducing critical components similar to “how to grip the club” or “position your body for the swing”. She reminds us that the practice of communication also needs constant fine-tuning and positioning to improve, and that’s exactly what her participants receive, on their way to scoring their own communication skills “hole-in-one.”