• The former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns -- like conflict avoidance and selective blindness -- that lead managers and organizations astray.

•In her TED video “Dare to Disagree” she explains how disagreement can lead to positive progress.

•In her introduction she captured the audience attention with a story of a famous doctor in the 1950’s

•She kept the audience engaged by showing confidence, dominance of speech and humor

•Margaret follows several of the ten TED commandments:

•She shares something that has never been heard before and it’s the power of disagreement which most individuals are afraid to explore.

•She reveals curiosity and passion about her speech making the audience part of the speech

•She tells stories that goes with the speech thesis and gives a more fluent idea of the main theme of her presentation.

•She makes the audience laugh, she doesn’t read her speech and finishes her speech in 12 minutes, enough time to make a point and don’t frustrate the audience.

•I would evaluate her dynamism with a 4. She could have used more slideshows or visual projection to increase the audience attention and reaction.

•She showed confidence and enthusiasm as per Garr Reynolds describes in order to keep an audience entertained.

•I’ve learnt that confidence, enthusiasm and knowledge it’s important in a speech. It’s the proper way to deliver a proper presentation.

•I found miss Heffernan and Sir Ken Robinson very different. Sir Robinson uses a lot of visual projection to increase audience attention and give a better idea of his speech. While Heffernan uses only her speech and a few jokes to keep the audience attention.

•What I would recommend my classmates about their future speech it’s just to be confident, be prepared and rehearse their speech many times, preparation it’s key when it comes to deliver a speech, and most important do not read your speech but also don’t make it look like you memorized it.

Thank you.