Auteur: Eric Bergman

For more than thirty years, Eric Bergman has used these tools to help his clients shape their stories and tell them effectively. Eric became a student of the spoken word in September, 1981. The professor of his presentation skills course at college was a member of a team preparing a presentation for delivery in Baden-Baden, West Germany. The objective of the presentation was to convince the International Olympic Committee that Calgary should host the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. « We were given a front-row seat to the process,  » Eric says. « I »ll never forget waking up to my clock radio to hear that Calgary had been selected to host the games. For me, it was one of those « where were you? » moments. » He started his communications career as a government public affairs officer in June, 1982, and wrote his first speech for a senior executive less than two months later. « It was a retirement speech, so it was fairly low risk,  » he says. « But, as the first one, it was stressful. I worked on that five minutes for almost five hours. » He left government in 1985, and has since been self-employed as a communications consultant. He relocated to Toronto in 1987 and, as a significant part of his consultancy for nearly a decade, wrote hundreds of speeches for executives in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. In the early 1990s, he shifted his focus to providing presentation skills training during workshops and seminars, and in one-on-one coaching. Over the ensuing years, he has used this toolbox thousands of times to help his clients develop strategic, compelling, effective content for a host of presentation challenges.