Article by Lynn Geiger
Traverse City – Tom Clynes is a journalist and photographer. He’s reported on Ebola outbreaks and armed conflicts in central Africa, and he’s retraced Sir Edmund Hillary’s climbs in New Zealand.
But in April, he was in Traverse City getting public speaking coaching from area consultant Onlee Bowden. He’s actually been to town before to visit his sister who lives here. So when he first met Bowden while sitting next to her on an airplane and they started talking, he decided this would be his next – perhaps not so exotic – adventure.
“I’m asked to speak quite a bit and I never felt that I was that good at it,” said Clynes, who lives in Vermont when he’s not traveling around the world.
After just three sessions with Bowden, Clynes said he noticed significant changes with the professionalism of his delivery, a more streamlined approach to his presentation and with a message that came more from the heart.
