CATHEY ARMILLAS

Speaker coach, TEDxPortland · Portland, Oregon, USA

Cathey Armillas coaches speakers to find the idea behind their work, then build a talk around it. Before creating How to Rock a TED Talk, she committed to watching a thousand TED Talks. Her approach centres on internalisation rather than memorisation, finding genuine humour, and making an idea matter to the people in the seats.

• Speaker coach on the TEDxPortland team for more than a decade
• Watched 1,000+ TED Talks to build How to Rock a TED Talk
• CEO and co-founder of Speaker Skills Academy
• Co-author of The Unbreakable Rules of Marketing with Jeff Berry
• TEDx speaker: Share Your Life, TEDxHickory