by Steven Maddocks | 10 July, 2025 | Featured
When a colleague asked me a few weeks ago if I’d heard of ‘body doubling’, I replied that I was an actor, of course I had. In the film business, a body double is someone who stands in on set for one of the leads. They are used to perform a dangerous stunt or special...
by Steven Maddocks | 28 April, 2025 | Body Language, Featured, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking
A couple of weeks ago I was at the Institute of Physics. There I watched an excellent presentation given by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. The audience were hanging on his every word. What did he do to achieve that? Here are the three...
by Steven Maddocks | 6 December, 2024 | Featured, Presenting to Camera
A few weeks ago I was running a filming day for swimming guru Steven Shaw, founder of Art of Swimming. We used a wonderful device called an Eye Direct. It helped Steven to speak directly to camera with all the charisma and good humour he has in real life. “Just...
by Steven Maddocks | 17 October, 2024 | Featured, MSB Executive
In the autumn of 2021, we decided that MSB Executive would embark on the journey to Net Zero. I was appointed to guide us there. Three years later, we are a transformed business. Consciousness of our carbon footprint now informs every choice we make, from how we...
by Martyn Barmby | 18 April, 2023 | Authority, Body Language, Building Confidence, Featured, Nerves, Public Speaking
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we gave ChatGPT a chance to write one of our blogs. How did it get on? The task for ChatGPT: Write me a blog on ‘How to Overcome Nerves when Speaking in Public’ Grade: ChatGPT recently passed its MBA exam at the Wharton...
by Martyn Barmby | 6 April, 2023 | Authority, Body Language, Building Confidence, Featured, Nerves, Public Speaking
At MSB Executive we love writing our blogs. An interesting topic comes up in the office, and someone dashes off to write a blog to share with the the world. But very occasionally this doesn’t happen. Sometimes we are all simply too busy running workshops or...
