In the Information Age, where the need to share information with other people is more demanding than ever before in history, skills in human communication are unfortunately getting worse rather than better. Bureaucrats, public servants and even people with whom we work each day, tend to communicate in a stylized gibberish that defies translation.

Durwood Fincher, while teaching English, developed new methods which were enthusiastically accepted by his students. He blended phonetics, linguistics and semantics in ways heretofore unexplored. What evolved were new insights into communication successes and failures. Fincher later developed a special emphasis in the area of business communications.

Companies with individuals who recognize the dangers of unclear communications can then work to improve the dispensation of information in the Information Age. Durwood Fincher's presentation can be an important first step in your company's efforts at attaining communication breakthroughs. In today's atmosphere of uncertainty and rapid changes, Fincher's message takes on new urgency. He is dedicated to spreading his message to corporate audiences nationwide. Mr. Doubletalk ® is truly the answer to the modern executive or meeting planner's dilemma in planning that next important speaking engagement or event.

What does Durwood Fincher do when he does what he does?

He provides an unexpected, refreshing experience for the corporate audience, a hilarious way for them to examine, reexamine and improve communications skills for themselves and others.

As Dr. Robert Payne, he portrays the bad example, the worst-case scenario of contemporary business-speak, using language to mislead. This bumbling, bureaucratic stereotype (familiar to attendees of conferences nationwide) uses mind-numbing language, designed to distort reality, make the bad seem good and the intolerable seem tolerable.

Introduced as Dr. Payne, head of a government agency which is pertinent to your industry, his presentation is salted through and through with your own company's buzzwords, jargon and other familiar references, to further the confusion. This curious-looking executive is passed off as an "Inside-The-Beltway" Dork.

The audience will first have mixed reactions:

- Trying to focus on what appears to be a tedious half hour or so ahead
- Getting ready to take copious notes
- Wishing they were somewhere else... anywhere else

But within minutes, Fincher will be having his way with their funnybones.

Following his bogus introduction by your host, "Dr. Payne" begins his equally bogus presentation which sounds like he is making sense. But if you listen carefully, it becomes obvious that what he is saying makes no sense whatsoever. Slowly the crowd begins to catch on.

First there is a titter. Then a few laughs. Then lots of laughs.

After the charade of Dr. Payne is exposed, Fincher swings into a fast-paced, laugh-filled sketch of real-life anecdotes about the funny foibles of people attempting to communicate with one another, against all odds. The audience, always forgiving, can't get enough.

With Durwood Fincher on the program, the people in the audience enjoy themselves and come away refreshed, having learned the message that we all must strive to communicate more concisely and clearly. Your meeting glides on effortlessly, successfully, in an atmosphere cleansed by laughter.