We're not there yet, but clarity and simplicity are the goal. Las Vegas: an odd place to talk about simplicity? A few weeks ago, I opened for the Synergy Conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As our world gets more complex, discussions about simplicity grow. Yet, ironically the issue of simplicity itself — what it is, how we attain it, etc. —  is not at all simple.

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Going to Las Vegas? Going to Las Vegas to invest her retirement funds. 2.  I’d suggest closing with your best line…and opening with your second best line.  A Top-Ten List is a great vehicle for creating and delivering humor.  It’s a regular feature on the David Letterman show.

For more information why not investigate what you could learn at my November 14-15 Speaking School in Las Vegas. 0160; You open another book.  0160; Do you work on your opening to create drama, tension, or mystery?  This week I interviewed Sims Wyeth one of my East Coast Fripp Speech Coaches. He taught and performed as an actor.

The presentation starts at 7:00pm. (click for larger size) Summer Schedule 09 Since we're talking about public presentations, below are a few more talks that are open to the public. (I'm May 4-7, Las Vegas (USA) I'm really pumped about this one. I'll be opening the Synergy Conference early in the morning on the 4th, then I Next week I'll be up in Tokyo meeting with friends to talk about TEDx Tokyo. In the evening of April 7 I'll be giving a presentation in the Apple Store theatre in Ginza.

This is the ONLY open enrollment Fripp Speaking School this year! In Las Vegas at the Platinum Hotel. Fat and Skinny Words: Levels of Abstraction By Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE Nothing can turn your audience off faster than using fat words when they're hungry for skinny ones. Or vice versa.

On December 13th, I toured the new Crystals Mall at City Center with my great pal and best client, Dan Maddux, Executive Director of The American Payroll Association and new meeting location MEET Las Vegas. While only 20% of the retail stores are open, a full house of luxury retail will soon ascend in the coming months. Of course, one of the premier features in Las As my friend and selling author Susan RoAne always encourages us to talk to strangers...or or

My friend Las Vegas based John Kinde is a brilliant Observational Humorist. John will be hlping me out in my June 29-30 Las Vegas Patricia Fripp Speaking and Presentation Skill School.This is an excerpt from his latest.  0160; The lines also combine the fact that I live in Las Vegas.   As an Executive Speech Coach I am often asked for sources of good clean humor. His Humor Power newsletter is one I always look forward to receiving.

John Kinde has fun with Patricia Fripp at the NSA Las Vegas. Here is a brief bit Observational Humor I used as an opening remark at the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  0160; Her program included individual coaching of audience members presenting speech openings. 0160; Patricia Fripp was the featured speaker presenting a full-day program.  I typically open my speeches with Observational Humor, so my “speech opening” was a short segment of humor.

Las Vegas or Detroit? Detroit is taking meeting business that would normally be suited for Las Vegas or other resort destinations. wish I was smart enough to figure out how Vegas can get back the business they’re losing. Knowing the Dixie Chicks are right that “time heals everything” doesn’t help if you’re in any “ So where would you rather hold your next convention? No, this isn’t a bad joke.