Public Speaking is the Key Leadership Skill of the 21st Century

Gabe Zichermann
5 min readMar 17, 2021
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When someone says the phrase “public speaking,” most of us feel a pang of anxiety and visualize an expert holding forth from the middle of TED’s red circle.

But public speaking in the 21st century has evolved to be so much more than what we imagine — though no less frightening. And the pandemic’s effect on professional life has only increased its…

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Gabe Zichermann

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com