Emotional Eloquence –
The Lost Language of Leadership
A keynote or workshop with Doug Stevenson
Emotional Eloquence is the next step in leadership development for current and
high potential future leaders. It is a program that shows leaders how to
translate the qualities of emotional intelligence into speeches and
presentations that motivate and inspire people to achieve better results.
Leaders who have developed emotional eloquence speak to people’s highest
aspirations, thereby gaining emotional buy-in from their employees and direct
reports. Emotional eloquence includes advanced presentation skills with a
uniquely different focus - authenticity and presence.
Leaders at all levels, but especially executive and director-level leaders, need
to know how to inspire and motivate – to be wisdom sharers. Many of today’s
leaders have relinquished their role as motivators and wisdom sharers in favor
of standing behind lecterns and reading speeches that others have written for
them. They have surrendered their power.
All to often, mid to high-level leaders make boring PowerPoint presentations.
They report on quarterly earnings rather than painting a picture of a hopeful
future. In a speech where they should be charting a bold course and inspiring
people to follow their lead, they bore people and fail to connect.
Emotional eloquence is a new and integral approach to communication skills for
leaders which simultaneously refers back to a simpler time when leaders spoke
from their hearts and inspired their employees to follow them forward towards a
better future.
As a result of this program, participants will learn:
How to include
motivational messages in every speech
Why context is as
important as content
How to tell stories
that make your message stick
Advanced audience
engagement skills
How to use imagery and
emotion to gain buy-in
The Eight Core Elements of Emotional Eloquence are:
1. Emotion is the
fast lane to the brain
2. Speak from your head with your heart wide open
3. Use metaphors and stories to frame your
content
4. Brand your message by weaving a theme
5. Design your speech yourself
6. Go deep, not wide
7. Appeal to people’s higher aspirations and
moral convictions
8. Close your speech with a message of hope
"As someone who is responsible for leadership and development in my
organization... I've recognized that boring, content-heavy
meetings just don't cut it. So we were looking for ways to bring
new life and new energy to the way that our managers talk to and
motivate their sales representatives. What Doug did was help us
recognize that it is all about the emotional connection with the
audience much more than the content of the presentation or what's
on a PowerPoint slide. Doug's presentation on Emotional Eloquence
connected with our audience and made us recognize that the degree
to which we express care and concern for our representatives
and the people that report to us is much more meaningful than
specific language or getting through a certain amount of content.
Doug brings energy; he brings a new approach and he connects with
a sales management audience in a way that few speakers do.
Doug Stevenson is a Master Storyteller... Every time we have Doug
in, he always delivers."
To read Doug's full-length article entitled:
Emotional Eloquence,
click on the Emotional Eloquence newsletter, October 2007: Emotional Eloquence Article
Private one-on-one
coaching or small group coaching available. Available as a keynote or workshop.
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