CHANNEL NEWS ASIA TV SERIES FEATURE
In this Channel News Asia video, our founder, 2016 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking Darren Tay gets featured on CNA Insider's new TV series as an expert on the art of persuasion and communication skills. In this episode of the series, Darren joins the show’s host, Jason Lai, on a journey to find out how neuroscience, storytelling, psychology are key to swaying minds.
Yahoo Finance
(Darren Tay, the 2016 Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking, during his winning speech, “Outsmart; Outlast.”Toastmasters International)
Darren Tay, a 27-year-old Singaporean lawyer, became the 2016 Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking in August, surviving several rounds of a competition that lasted six months and included more than 30,000 competitors from Toastmasters’ public speaking clubs around the world...
Business Insider
On Saturday, August 20, 27-year-old Singaporean lawyer Darren Tay became the Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking. He survived several rounds of a competition that lasted six months and included more than 30,000 competitors from Toastmasters public speaking clubs around the world.
He and nine other finalists competed at the Toastmasters annual convention, held this year at Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. Tay took home first place for his...
Straits Times
(Darren Tay, the 2016 Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking, during his winning speech, “Outsmart; Outlast.”Toastmasters International).
Darren Tay, a 27-year-old Singaporean lawyer, became the 2016 Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking in August, surviving several rounds of a competition that lasted six months and included more than 30,000 competitors from Toastmasters’ public speaking clubs around the world...
BBC World News
BBC World News Interviews Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking Darren Tay
CNA News Interview
In this video, World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren Tay talks about the speech that he gave in a white underwear.
Asiaone
According to Toastmasters International District 80, which manages clubs in Singapore, Mr Tay is the second Singaporean representative to have made it to the competition’s final round, after Manoj Vasudevan clinched third place last year.
The World Championship of Public Speaking has been held by Toastmasters International since 1938, with a two-year break during World War II...
CNN NEWS
“ARE YOU READY TO WITNESS THE BEST? THE BEST OF THE BEST?” a caption flashing across a jumbo screen asks the audience. The crowd roars approval. “LET THE CONTEST BEGIN!”
It’s the finale of the 2016 World Championship of Public Speaking, but it feels more like fight night in Vegas. Ten finalists warm up backstage like boxers psyching themselves up for the ring. Some bop their heads and shimmy to dance music on their headphones. Others pantomime dramatic hand gestures while rehearsing their lines out loud.
They’ve come halfway around the globe to get on a stage and do something most people find frightening. They’re the renegades in an increasingly mute society where people prefer to text and tweet than actually talk to one another. They’ve emerged from a field of 30,000 contestants from countries as far away as Australia, South Korea and Zimbabwe. Their seven-minute speeches draw laughter and gasps of surprise. They reduce the audience to silence with heart-tugging confessions.