by Taz Thornton | May 9, 2026 | Blog, The Business
I want to suggest something that might rub a few people up the wrong way, and I’m going to suggest it anyway because that’s generally a sign it’s worth saying. Failure doesn’t exist. Before you click away or fire off an email telling me...
by Taz Thornton | May 2, 2026 | Blog, The Business
Someone said that to me once, on a public Facebook thread. I’d posted something upbeat – one of those graphics with a positive message about possibility and change – and this chap, who’d been following me for a while, hit the comments with those four words… It’s...
by Taz Thornton | Apr 25, 2026 | Blog, The Business
I want to tell you about a pattern I’ve watched play out more times than I can count – in my own life, and in the lives of just about every client I’ve ever worked with. It goes like this… Something feels a little off. Not dramatically, not urgently – just a...
by Taz Thornton | Mar 28, 2026 | Blog, The Business
Twice in the past week I’ve been told I should be charging more for my speaker training programme. Also, coincidentally, twice in the past few weeks, I’ve had conversations with people who paid way, way more (additional digits more!) for their speaker training, only...
by Taz Thornton | Nov 23, 2021 | Politics, Public speaking, Speaking
THIS morning, I took a call from the BBC. As both a business coach and speaker trainer, they wanted me to go live on air to provide some public speaking tips for Boris Johnson. Of course, I was delighted to do so. The thing is, having listened to the much-reported CBI...