Max Dixon is an international keynote speaker and professional communication coach. He has degrees in Political Science and in Speech and Theatre. For 31 years Max was a teacher at the college level where he taught acting, movement, voice and diction, stage combat as well as public speaking and persuasion. He was also the director of many plays. The last six of these years, Max was one of three core teachers in the Professional Actor Training Program in the School of Drama at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was the head of Movement and Improvisation.Max's graduate work focused partly on The Oral Study of Literature, often known as Oral Interpretation. This led to a life‐long passion for stories, poetry and lyrics and has culminated in his work over the last 15 years with The Power of Story in a Corporate Setting.Among his many talents is a rare and comforting ability to find a speaker's natural gifts and to strengthen those while subtlety still making improvements. He draws from a wide range of interests that add depth and substance to his work.Max is held in high regard for his presentations. Potency on the Platform: Take Your Body With You and Depth Perception: Taking your Message to Another Level. Depth Perception focuses on increasing the significance of the content of any message, respecting our modern global need for reassurance and practical tools for survival in our business and personal lives.Max deeply and sincerely cares about the results for every individual client. Once he commits to a job, Max’s goal and total focus is to make sure that every person he trains and coaches leaves with the gift of having the skills, knowledge and the total confidence to be able to make an astonishing presentation each and every time!Specialties:  The Power of Story In A Corporate Setting