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Hayley Foster is a designated TEDx speaker coach with a coaching business as the Short Talk Expert. She authored a book, Don’t Tank Your TED Talk! 12 Mistakes Professional Speakers Make. Hayley Foster’s husband, Steve Craft, was a TEDster — someone who followed TED online “in the early days,” Foster said. At first, Foster, a professional speaker herself, didn’t share his enthusiasm for TED talks, which started becoming available online in 2007 — the speakers were primarily men and their topics n

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True to her craft, speaker coach Hayley Foster has distilled 12 common mistakes speakers make in her book Don’t Tank Your TED Talk. Here are four, excerpted from the short-talk expert’s book: Hayley Foster Not Starting Strong The best TED and TEDx talks don’t follow a specific formula. They are wildly diverse in topic and aim to break the complicated into manageable bite-sized pieces, in a remarkably short time span.

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