Keynote
Speaker

Entertaining. Informative. Practical. Funny.

Studied as a physicist. Stood on stage as a comedian. Works as a writer. Teaches around the world.

Came back with singular insights – and great stories.

Give your audiences insight and entertainment from a polymath whom audiences love learning from and getting to know. Topics include

  • If You’re So Smart, Why Are You Losing So Many Arguments? Tricks from the Art of Guerilla Persuasion
  • Peter Frampton, O.J., and Me: How I Found a Life I Never Expected, and How You Can, Too
  • Creativity and Madness: The Neuroscientific Source of Original Ideas – and How to Feed the Beast
  • Not Quite the Smartest Guy in The Room: Funny Stories from a Ghostwriter Who Started Out Telling Jokes (and Doing Physics)
  • You’re Up Next: How to Write and Deliver a Speech You’ll Be Proud Of – In Six Simple Steps
  • … Custom Keynotes also available
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  • "…simple, logical, easy-to-follow advice for all writers."

    Beth Lasky / Executive Communications Manager, Sodexo

  • "If you want a talk about speechwriting and expect a nice lecture about the ins and outs of basic speechwriting, don’t hire Mike Long. Because Mike does not go for the niceties and the clichés, he goes right to the gut, the underbelly of speechwriting."

    Renee Broekmeulen / Founder, The Dead Horse Society (Netherlands Speechwriters Network)

  • "What truly sets him apart are his abilities and intuition as a teacher and trainer. He embodies the old writer’s maxim of showing instead of telling and in so doing is uniquely suited to help people tell powerful stories and sell compelling arguments on their own."

    Dan Gerstein / Founder & CEO, Gotham Ghostwriters

  • "Mike is the leader in leadership communication. The rest of us are acolytes."

    Dana Rubin / Founder & Director, Leadership Communicators Roundtable

  • "Mike Long is one of those rare birds whose vast writing skills are rivaled only by his knack for teaching his craft."

    Allan Reetz / Cooperative Communicators Association, Education Committee Chair

  • "The day after I sat in on Mike Long’s PR writing class, I applied the lesson the very next day at work and couldn’t wait to share the information with my colleagues."

    Tonya J. Williams / America’s Promise Alliance

  • "He is a walking lesson in effective rhetoric."

    Renee Broekmeulen / Founder, The Dead Horse Society (Netherlands Speechwriters Network)

  • "I just wish I could clone him."

    Dan Gerstein / Founder & CEO, Gotham Ghostwriters

  • “A big thanks for coming to Lisbon to lead and deliver a two-day training course to all of our European communications leadership team. The seminar was highly engaging and entertaining, and all participants learned loads about how to prepare for and write an excellent speech. I look forward to seeing the results as the teams put in practice all that they learned.”

    Fiona / Communications Director, Europe, for a global top-ten pharmaceutical company

  • “I have attended Mike Long's speechwriting workshops and found them to be informative, thought-provoking and entertaining. Much like a good speech.”

    Reg Downs / Senior Advisor to Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan

  • “Mike Long came to London to deliver a training workshop. It proved very popular. And unlike other workshops, you didn’t just learn the skills, you learnt the strategy for getting a speech accepted within an organisation.”

    Brian Jenner / Founder, European Speechwriter Network

  • "Mike Long is a prolific writer in many forms and one brilliant teacher of speechwriting—insightful, philosophical, personable, funny, and best in big doses. His personality is so large and compelling that it adds needed color to the camouflaged speechwriting industry.”

    David Murray / editor and publisher, Vital Speeches of the Day; executive director, Professional Speechwriters Association

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