Love to get testimonials like this: Darren, I’ve got to tell you! Thank you for providing tools and techniques to use right away! In fact, I think I used them without thinking about it because you implanted them in my mind so well! Today was the first day I presented as Education Coordinator for our [...]

As a candidate for lieutenant governor of marketing, I knew most Toastmasters would make their choice after hearing the two of us give our two minute speech at the business meeting.  The election was slated for mid-April.  I had a one hour coaching session with Darren the final week of January to help me prepare [...]

Dear Darren, I spent my best hour of coaching with you Darren. You helped me transform a two year old dream into specific and realistic objectives, and you made sure I committed to it. Imagine, I will prepare my own conference, yes me, and inspire parents like me who deal with challenging children situations at [...]

What do people say 3 days AFTER you speak? How memorable are your words? Found this print out of an e-mail from my Henry Miller, who had me come speak to his TLI about: Speaking Outside of Toastmasters for Fun Profit and Club Building. Henry’s e-mail said: I attended two Christmas Club parties yesterday and [...]

Was forcing myself to knock down some of my piles in my office today, and came across a letter from Karen Hudson, an attendee at one of my training sessions that I did with fellow World Champion, Lance Miller. Karen is a writer for Redbook Magazine. We never know who is in our audience or [...]

Don’t take my word for it, what do people who learned YouTube from me say: “Darren really took the fear out of working with YouTube. He really made it YouTube for Dummies!” Alton Jamison, Motivational Speaker “I’m such a techno-phobe that having Darren walk us through step-by-step was wonderful.” Charlyne Meinhard, Management Consultant “Darren showed [...]

SUBJECT: Humor Applied Hi Darren, I thought you’d like to know that your Humor Boot Camp® worked so well for me that when I gave the “Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship” speech, the club was supposed to get riled up. But they laughed all the way through …your techniques for humor worked way too well! Maybe [...]

I just got this e-mail from a seasoned speaker and business man, Mike Davis (A Toastmaster too): “Darren Just got the Connect Card.  Congratulations!  You’ve done it again.  You’ve taken a key aspect of speaking, the 5 minutes before, and boiled it down to it’s essential components.  These four questions can be used for sales [...]

Wow, just got a personal video from Brian Tracy! I can’t thank him enough for opening my eyes to what most thought was impossible for me! Thank also to my high school buddy, Jim Boland who gave me Brian Tracy’s tape program. I’m speechless…. Stage time, Darren LaCroix, 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking My [...]

Hi, Darren, I just have to write this note. In the Speaker’s EDGE, there is a chapter (maybe Valentine’s?) where he said to repeat a key phrase when connecting with the audience. I did this last night. I gave an “Ice Breaker” to the TM X-L club (9 of the 14 members are DTM -– [...]