[onewhippedpuppy]

I never liked formal public speaking, the key for me was to just learn the content so well that I could talk about it in a casual manner. No notecards, reading a Powerpoint, or teleprompter (lol). Ultimately it makes the speech better too, because nobody likes a dry reading from a Powerpoint slide. With that approach I was very successful in business development work, where I was typically pitching my company to a prospective customer that was both questioning the honesty of everything that I said as well as half annoyed to be there. I also did 6 presentations per year to senior leaders of my Fortune 500 company that were hellbent on picking me and my content apart and making me look like a fool.