Rita Okonkwo

Rita writes about delivery and stage craft: how to structure a talk with frameworks like PREP and STAR, and what voice, posture and gesture do in the room. She also runs Exprea's social channels and writes on Medium, Substack, Quora and X.

Articles

  1. Before / After: how to show that something made a difference
  2. Monroe's Motivated Sequence: five steps from attention to action
  3. What? So What? Now What? The update people can act on
  4. Problem, Solution, Benefit: how to propose a change people agree to
  5. Local to Global: how to make one idea matter at every scale
  6. Pros, Cons, Verdict: how to give a fair answer that still takes a side
  7. Feature, Advantage, Benefit: how to describe something so people want it
  8. STAR: how to answer "tell me about a time when..."
  9. Hook, Story, Point: how to tell a story with a reason to be told
  10. The Rule of Three: how to make an argument people remember
  11. Past, Present, Future: how to tell the story of a change
  12. PREP: how to answer anything in under a minute
  13. The First Fifteen Seconds Decide the Next Fifteen Minutes
  14. Why Your Talk Falls Apart in the Middle
  15. Stop Explaining. Start Showing.
  16. The Pause Is the Point
  17. Every Good Talk Is Secretly an Argument
  18. Power Posing, and What Happens When Research Gets Retested
  19. Eye Contact Is for the Room, Not the Camera
  20. Gesture Is Not Decoration: It Changes What You Say
  21. Which Gestures Travel, and Which Don’t
  22. Nobody Notices Your Nerves as Much as You Think