[onewhippedpuppy]

Paul pretty well nailed it. Never forget that you are the expert, or you had damn well better be before the speech.. I used to have to present quarterly financial results (not my forte) to a hostile audience of VP level and above people who were determined to try and poke holes in my presentation. My mantra, stolen from a company called Insignium, was “be brief, be bright, be gone”. And worst case my wife’s words of wisdom were, “just remember, they can’t kill you”. Thanks dear!