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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.
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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.
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