About
You will find me in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vancouver is a dynamic city which continues to attract people from all over the globe. Vancouver has passed the torch to Sochi, Russia to host the next Olympics four years away. What a party we hosted in Vancouver. I believe that visitors to Vancouver enjoyed their stay in Vancouver as much as we enjoyed having them. We did shine! You can imagine the multitude of communication styles I was privey to observing.
Communication or the lack of it, has held my fascination since I was young. Dinner table talk was often about strong Canadian political orators. Yes, the power of a speaker’s persuasion and the ability to overwhelm with charisma delighted me. Call me a geek!
Which led me to attending Royal Roads University where I was fortunate in crossing paths with Dr. Gilbert Wilkes, who is an expert in Rhetoric. I had previously thought that rhetoric was the spin that dribbled out of the mouths of the insincere. I learned it is not. Rhetoric in its true sense is persuasion. Opening your audience to your point of view and convincing them you are worth consideration. As Dr. Wilkes says:
“It’s in the details”.
My academic training in rhetorical persuasion is the cornerstone of my perspective of the practice of coaching speaking and presenting. Historical orators’ sage advice still works today. They valued their audience and their personal connection to them. They valued focus and keeping it through out. And they valued supporting their argument and using concrete, sticky messages.
All tools needed to present with conviction and to convince.
I look forward to hearing from you and your thoughts/ideas about speaking and presenting.
Recommendations
The first thing I noticed about Janice was her incredible, positive energy and presence. She is confident, a good communicator, respectful of others and collaborative and cooperative working with diverse groups.
Janice is tenacious, determined and very focused. She has a strong sense of fair play and ethics, and a clear understanding of the need for client orientation. Janice has good judgement, pays attention to detail and takes assignments through to completion.
Janice has an uncanny ability to reach the bottom line in an quick an efficient way. Her years of communication experience have provided a 360 view of issues and problems ,providing sound perspective and always a practical go forward plan. What I was most grateful for when working with Janice, was her ability to anticipate problems, allowing me to sidestep potential land minds, saving me precious and costly time.
Lydia Johnson Consulting Ltd.
Author of: The Jalapeno Handshake
