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Matthew Dicks advises business professionals to reframe public speaking from a 'presentation' to a 'performance' to improve preparation and audience engagement.
Storytelling consultant Matthew Dicks provides services to Fortune 500 companies, including four of the 'Magnificent Seven'.
Matthew Dicks' consulting clients include nonprofit organizations such as Yale University, Harvard University, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Matthew Dicks plans to retire from his 27-year career as a middle school teacher in June to increase his availability for corporate storytelling consulting.
Within six months of starting his corporate consulting business, Matthew Dicks acquired clients such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, and Google through referrals.
Matthew Dicks provides storytelling consulting services to the FBI's hostage negotiation unit.
Matthew Dicks cites Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch as a prime example of effectively using the four key entertainment strategies—stake, suspense, surprise, and humor—in a business presentation.
Matthew Dicks identifies a critical mistake in business presentations as starting the creation process in PowerPoint, which he argues leads to a slide-driven narrative rather than a true story.
According to Matthew Dicks, Steve Jobs was known to practice for months for his product launch performances, treating them as highly prepared events.
A vice president at Slack reportedly changed her management style after Matthew Dicks explained that the strategic purpose of positive feedback is to reinforce and increase the frequency of good performance, not just to soften criticism.