Toastmasters International announces Matt Abrahams, lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, author of two communication-based books, and host of the Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, as the recipient of the organization’s 2025 Golden Gavel Award.

With an inspirational speech titled “37 Strangers,” Luisa Montalvo, a 65-year-old retiree and dog rescue volunteer from San Juan, Texas, won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking.

In 1989, MBA student Daniel Rex attended his first meeting of a Toastmasters International group. He didn’t walk out with a slate of public speaking gigs, but something clicked for him, and after finishing school he got a job at Toastmasters’ global headquarters.

Morag Mathieson is the new International President of Toastmasters International, the world’s leading organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development.

With a motivational speech titled, “Have You Been There?” Jocelyn Tyson, a 42-year-old pharmacist from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, won the 2023 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking.

Matt Kinsey is the new International President of Toastmasters International, the world’s leading organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development.

With an inspiring speech titled, “Ndini,” Cyril Junior Dim, a 24-year-old Zimbabwean software engineer living in Wroclaw, Poland, won the 2022 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking.

While the workplace landscape has changed drastically in recent years, one thing remains constant: the value employers place on their employees having and continuing to develop effective soft skills. More than half of the 2021 Fortune 500 companies offer in-house Toastmasters clubs to help build and improve their employees' communication, leadership, and public speaking skills.

With her speech titled “A Great Read,” Verity Price, a professional speaker and facilitator from Cape Town, South Africa, won the 2021 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking.

What if you could speak with the Michael Jordan, LeBron James or Steph Curry of public speaking and get their advice how to communicate better in the new, distance-based professional world? Well, you are in the right place. I recently approached seven past Toastmasters World Champions of Public Speaking and asked them to share their insights.

With an inspiring speech titled, “The Librarian & Mrs. Montgomery,” Mike Carr, a 53-year-old Financial Analyst from Austin, Texas, won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking®

Many members have found online meetings to be a great way to stay connected, keep momentum going, and provide a much-needed sense of routine. To help ensure your meeting is a success, Toastmasters offers these 10 tips for an efficient and productive online meeting.

It’s no easy feat to stand up and talk in front of people—whether it’s five or 50 or 500. In fact, surveys have found that public speaking has long been one of the things Americans fear most

Toastmasters International, the global organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development, has seen its membership increase every year since 1994. Since then, membership has more than doubled. Today, Toastmasters has more than 358,000 members in 16,800 clubs and a presence in 143 countries

Founded in California in 1924, Toastmasters has 357,000 members in 143 countries. About 1,700 were at the convention, attending networking lunches and talks with titles like, “How to Get What You Want: Influencing Others Into Action.”

Toastmasters International has launched the Pathways learning experience. The launch marks the first complete redesign of Toastmasters’ education program since the organization was founded in 1924.

Being a great public speaker requires much more than confidence. It's about connecting to audience members on a personal level and leaving them with a satisfying message they can act on.