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When you have a chance to make your pitch, how do you turn audiences into advocates, investors into partners and customers into super fans?

In this webinar, Dr. Melissa Murphy shares practical and research-driven strategies to become a more persuasive speaker, drawn from the fields of social psychology, rhetoric and language. Dr Murphy discusses ways to impress your audiences' eyes, ears and expectations, whether you're pitching a product or service, an idea or a company.

Melissa Murphy, Ph.D.

Lecturer, McCombs School of Business, Founder and Chief Communication Coach of The Pitch Academy


Dr. Melissa Murphy is the Founder and Chief Communication Coach of The Pitch Academy and award-winning teacher and scholar in organizational communication and technology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Murphy currently teaches business communication in the McCombs School of Business. She has taught professional communication skills, nonverbal communication and organizational communication for the Moody College of Communication and has also held academic teaching positions in marketing for the Master of Science in Technology Commercialization program as well as teaches numerous workshops for Texas Executive Education.