Motivational speaker
A motivational speaker or inspirational speaker is a speaker who makes speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience. Business entities may employ motivational speakers (for example) to communicate company strategy with clarity, to help employees to see the future in a positive light, and to inspire workers to pull together.[1] The talk itself is often known as a pep talk. Motivational speakers are also commonly known as inspirational speakers and/or keynote speakers. Common motivational speaker topics include business, mentoring, team building, sales, inspiration, management and customer service. Popular motivational speakers include Tony Robbins, Les Brown and Naseer Khan.
Antiquity
Modern scholarship on classical oratory as a means of persuading and moving audiences[2] can look to Cicero's De Oratore as an exemplar for "the rhetoric of motivation".[3]
See also
- Commencement speech
- Keynote
- Life coaching
- Public speaking
- Self-help
- Speaking fee
References
- ↑ "Adv ice & FAQs about speakers", Speakers Corner
- ↑ Augustine of Hippo paraphrasing Quintilian: Williams, James Dale, ed. (2009). An introduction to classical rhetoric: essential readings. John Wiley and Sons. p. 502. ISBN 978-1-4051-5860-2. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
[...] the hearer [...] must be persuaded in order to move him to action.
- ↑ Watson, John Selby, ed. (1986). Cicero on oratory and orators. Landmarks in rhetoric and public address. Ralph A. Micken, David Potter, Richard Leo Enos. Southern Illinois University Press. p. xxviii. ISBN 978-0-8093-1293-1. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
Such a work as De Oratore may serve as a point of departure for students of the rhetoric of motivation [...]
External links
- "The Art and Business of Motivational Speaking", Inc. Magazine January 2011
- Pinsker, Sanford, "Was Ralph Waldo Emerson Our First Motivational Speaker?", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2001