All right, so now we're going to transition into our first keynote of the morning. Are you a good speaker? Who wants to be? Great good news. This session was designed with you in mind. You may know our next speaker is a CSP, CPAE and Cavett Award winner. She was NSA's first woman president. She's creator of Fripp Virtual Training, powerful persuasive presentations and the co author of Deliver Unforgettable Presentations. In her career she's delivered 3500 live presentations and hundreds of virtual. What you may not know is that in 1986 in a night club called Pulsations, she made her entrance from a spacecraft that descended four floors down onto the dance floor.

She stepped out wearing her custom made Wonder Woman costume. She has proudly paid her NSA dues for 48 years. She built her speaking business when high tech was a bank atm. She's the only NSA member to cut our founder Cavett Roberts hair and he told everyone it was the best haircut he ever had. She loves NSA chapters and since 1983 has spoken at close to 500 chapter meetings. Most of her work these days is coaching and speech writing for executives, engineers, sales teams and some speakers to inspire action and commitment. To discuss how we can captivate your audience in the first 30 seconds, please welcome to a 411 giant who once chased a masked gunman in Golden Gate Park. Big round of applause for Patricia Fripp.

The email said. "Dear Patricia, I'm a big fan of yours. May I interview you for my blog?" Well, I don't know about you, but I am a short term project person who was working on a large project creating my online learning program. Doing my very best to not be distracted, I wrote an email. I'm honored. I'm flattered, very busy. Contact me in three months. And I thought, well before I hit send, let me check his website.

I'll let you enjoy that a bit longer. Naturally, I picked up the phone now that you realize how dreadfully shallow I am and said, what is an Emmy award winning TV interviewer and game show host doing being my fan? After a 30 minute conversation, Todd Newton said, patricia, this is great information. I have enough for at least four blog posts. But come on, tell me what is the number one secret of delivering a powerful persuasive presentation? I said, oh, there's no one secret. And then I realized a brand new frhipicism was about to fall flawlessly from my lips. And I said, although there is no one secret, if there were, it would be that your subject is of interest to your audience and you're wondering, well, how can I always guarantee it? Speak as an audience advocate and remember, if we work on the premise that everyone is more interested in themselves than they are in us, we won't go wrong. And one way we can do that is to watch the I versus you and your ratio. Certainly we're not going to talk and not say I.