Become the Voice: Master Public Speaking Skills Now!

30 May 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of TJ Walker advising business leaders on the critical importance of spoken communication. Walker argues that executives must speak directly to stakeholders—media, employees, regulators—and that public speaking is irreplaceable for fundraising, leadership, and marketability even in an AI-transformed future.

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To your biggest stakeholders. You have to speak to the media that cover your industry. You have to speak to your employees. You may have to speak to regulators, public officials. You're basically spending most of your time communicating. And it's not just newsletters and emails and webpages. You've got staff for that. You can delegate that. You can delegate all those other things. You cannot delegate speaking on behalf of the entire organization to the world. If you have that skill, it's going to make you really marketable in the future. No matter how much AI transforms things, there's always going to be an opportunity for new businesses. People who start new businesses have to speak. Mark Zuckerberg, the people who win on Shark Tank, anyone you admire and respect, they didn't raise their first million dollars just through an email. They had to speak to someone. It might have been a family member, but they had to.