Public Speaking
Steffen has spoken at TED, Poptech, Design Indaba, Amsterdam's PicNic, The Royal Geographical Society and New Delhi's Doors of Perception as well as giving keynote addresses at major industry events like the AIGA and IDSA national conferences, O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies (eTech), FOO Camp and the Business Expo Bright Green held during the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Steffen has keynoted three different South by Southwest conferences (SxSW). Steffen has also spoken at a number of corporations, including Nike and IDEO, as well as at universities including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Stanford and the London School of Economics. He is represented by the Lavin Agency.
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“Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.”
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“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)