Are you in control? Nearly everyone experiences some physiological reaction to being in the spotlight.  Even veterans who consider themselves immune to stage fright report feeling a surge of adrenaline before facing an audience.  Simply the act of imagining oneself speaking to an audience may trigger an involuntary physical response to most people.   Often it will begin with a contraction of [...]

Executive Speech Coach What do you stand for? In nearly every speaking situation, your first chance to make a good impression will be on your  audience's eyes.   Body-language matters, and a few minutes spent re-aligning your posture can do more for your physical appearance than many hours invested at the gym.   There is nothing unnatural or stiff about “standing up straight.”   An actively-aligned [...]

The American Movie Company welcomes Gerritt VanderMeer as the new head of the Executive Speech Coach team. GERRITT VANDERMEER has been a professional speech coach since 1998. Mr. VanderMeer’s work as a mentor to professional speakers is informed by first-hand experience on-stage and on-camera as a spokesperson, emcee, film, television, commercial, voice-over and theater performer.  He has  appeared [...]