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## [Grab Your Audience’s Attention From the Start](https://blog.powerspeaking.com/grab-your-audience-attention-from-the-start)

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📣 We’re in the news again! 🗞 Success.com magazine profiled us after interviewing [CEO Carrie Beckstrom](https://www.powerspeaking.com/management/carrie-beckstrom/). The article highlights our human-centered approach to public speaking, technical and executive presentations, and storytelling—and making smart use of AI.

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According to a 2023 Axios research report, the cost of ineffective communication (from leaders and across the organization) adds up to more than $15,000 per employee, per year—or $2 trillion annually across the U.S. alone.

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_“Every executive we have interviewed has told us, ‘Get to the point quicker. It’s not a murder mystery.’”_\- PowerSpeaking Master Facilitator and Coach John Warren

Making a technical presentation to your peers is one thing. Pitching an idea or request to senior executives, a product review to clients, or a speech to non-technical decision makers requires a different skill set.

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Senior executives have told us that 60% of the presentations made to them fail. Imagine the cost of that!

Innovative ideas that go nowhere because they weren’t presented persuasively. Projects that stall because a presenter didn’t drive a much-needed decision from the executive team. Or how about the cost of wasting corporate leaders’ time?

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Our popular white paper, “ [Circles of Light: Women’s Wisdom](https://258322.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/258322/Bonus%20Content/Circles_of_Light_Program.pdf),” was featured in USA Today! The article highlights the work we’ve done over the years to help women advance by becoming more confident, powerful communicators—including our groundbreaking program, [Confident Speaking for Women](https://www.powerspeaking.com/confident-speaking-for-women) ™.

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## [Fear of Public Speaking/Presenting](https://blog.powerspeaking.com/fear-of-public-speaking-presenting)

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by Carrie Beckstrom, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSpeaking, Inc.

Last year I had the privilege of introducing a number of speakers at the Women in Tech World Series conferences. All the speakers were powerful. When it comes to courage, however, there was one woman who stood out above all the rest.

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## [Want to Stand Out on the Conference Scene? Learn from the Best](https://blog.powerspeaking.com/high-impact-conference-speaking)

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On day one of the 2023 European Women in Tech Conference, Janet Maldonado, Head of Engineering, Boehringer Ingelheim, stepped onto the stage to deliver her talk, “Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Embracing Change to Thrive in the New Frontiers of Technology.”

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