Please use this introduction at your event to bring Dr. Armour to the platform. You can download a copy of the introduction in either a Microsoft Word format or in a PDF file. For your pre-event publicity or event publications you may find it more helpful to use one of the short bios found elsewhere on this web site.
Instructions for Delivering this Intro
To make your event as successful as possible, it's important for your speaker to come to the platform with the audience in a high state of anticipation. Creating that mood depends heavily on the professionalism and enthusiasm with which you deliver the introduction.
Therefore
- please read over the introduction several times before delivering it, even rehearsing by reading aloud
- deliver the introduction unhurriedly, yet with energy
- pause briefly between bullet points or at places where the text is set off by a series of dots (. . .)
Thank you for taking the time to make this introduction a vital part of the event.
Introduction for Dr. Mike Armour
- Our speaker today has been a leader all his life.
- He has excelled at taking troubled organizations and putting them back on their feet.
- Among other things he is
- a retired captain in the field of naval intelligence
- the founder of a highly successful private school
- a former college president
- the president of an international non-profit serving two-dozen countries
- a long-time leader in faith-based organizations
- a former Congressional candidate
- and an international resource specialist for character-based education in Russia and the Ukraine
- He holds degrees from five colleges and universities, including a Ph.D. from UCLA.
- He has been published in a dozen languages and is a successful author in the field of leadership.
- For forty years he has addressed audiences frequently across the United States and around the world . . . from South Korea . . . to Latin America . . . to the Balkans . . . to Ukraine . . . to Asiatic Russia.
- He now owns Strategic Leadership Development International . . . a Dallas-based firm that helps top-level executives build stronger leadership
teams . . . deeper levels of trust . . . and peak performance. - Today he speaks to us on the theme of ___________________________
- Please join me in welcoming Dr. Mike Armour.