Vanessa Van Edwards argues that warmth in technical presentations comes from genuine purpose, not expertise alone. Ground your talk in why you're sharing the information, then add humor through GIFs, personal stories, or relatable anecdotes to deepen the connection with your audience.
Intention can bring warmth. If your intention is good, to build connection, to teach someone something, to help someone with something, to make a product better. So remind yourself, ground yourself in why am I sharing this data or this technical ability? So you wanna help, you wanna offer, you wanna make better. And also humor. Humor is a great one. For example, I do a lot of presentations to engineers or very technical folks, and I love like GIFs of data and they just love this. So how can you add elements of humor into your presentations when you're in person? Can you tell a funny story about your kids or yourself or your way to work. Those are all warm as well. So it doesn't have to be your expertise that's warm. It could also be the extras. Just want to share that for my people who are like, I don't think warmth is easy.
