The Art of Presenting and Performing

Midwest Speaker Academy 

The Art of Presenting and Performing
presented by John Watkis

Is a speech a performance? If you’re not comfortable performing, is it possible to still be entertaining? Find out the answers to these questions (and many more) during this interactive session with speaker, performer, and presentation skills coach, John Watkis. 

John Watkis is an award-winning performer, international speaker, author, high-stakes
performance coach, and voice actor. In addition to nearly three decades of experience delivering keynote speeches and workshops for clients in seven countries, and on four continents, he has written speeches for corporations, government officials, non-profits, professional speakers, and a hall-of-fame athlete.

He’s the author of Speaking Notes: The Eight Essential Elements to Make Your Speech Music
to Their Ears, a salsa dancing champion, and the first Canadian actor to play Mufasa in the
onstage Disney musical, The Lion King.

John uses his center stage speaking method to help speakers steal the spotlight when they stand up to speak.