5000 people sit watching a mind-bending video on their virtual reality headsets at Samsung’s Galaxy S7 launch. As they watch, Mark Zuckerberg is rushed from the green room onto the enormous cube-shaped stage. When people remove their VR glasses, the room goes nuts (in a good way; Zuck was still a rock star then). Dozens of people rush the stage to take selfies with him in the background. It was chaos.

Rewind a few hours, and I was at practice, watching the Facebook Founder walk the stage and read his lines from the teleprompters, while his 12-person entourage followed (and complimented) his every move and word.

At GrahamComm, we’ve been lucky to have worked some big events and rubbed elbows with some big names (CEOs of Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Instagram to name a few). So I thought I’d share with you some of what happens backstage AND what you can do before speaking at any event–even your weekly team meetings.

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