Stand Up And Speak Up

Do you ever wonder why you aren’t getting the results you think you should? Vernon Budinger has found that people often have bad habits that convey a lack of confidence and destroy any passion in their message. They literally “shoot themselves in the foot.” Vernon Budinger has worked in the finance industry for almost thirty years. He received his MBA from New York University with Distinction. He then went to work on Wall Street for Citicorp Securities Markets. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation and went on to work for hedge funds (specialized, higher-risk investment funds). Vernon left his most recent employer to start his own hedge fund to invest in Brazil. He soon found out that promoting hedge funds is much more difficult than building one. One day he watched a video of one of his presentations and realized that, based on the presentation, he probably would not even invest in himself! That is when he joined Toastmasters and got serious about speaking. He observed that some invest