The Moxie Institute

The Moxie Institute Fia Fasbinder, CEO & Speaker: Empowering leaders, teams, & professionals to build unshakable courage & confidence.

Through neuroscience & the performing arts, Moxie Institute offers transformative professional development & corporate training. A WORLD LEADER IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & CORPORATE TRAINING

Moxie Institute has decades of experience designing and delivering customized training to global organizations and driven professionals in all areas of business communication, presentation skills, leadership, media, and speaker coaching. We integrate the latest research in neuroscience, adult learning theory, and the performing arts to ensure our clients master new skills and habits that continue to improve throughout their career and life. Every Moxie Master Trainer has over 10 years of experience and follows our industry-leading Moxie Method to ensure the highest quality of learning that is engaging, empowering, and guaranteed to make an impact. By addressing the unique challenges of each professional and organization, we craft training solutions that foster innovation, adaptability, and resilience. Our programs are designed to meet the evolving demands of modern business, equipping leaders and teams with tools to communicate with clarity, purpose, and empathy. Participants leave empowered to navigate complex situations, inspire action, and cultivate collaboration across diverse environments. Moxie Institute’s commitment to excellence has earned us the trust of renowned Fortune 500s, thought leaders, and driven professionals all over the world.

09/11/2026

Before you build a presentation, get to know the people who will be sitting in front of you.

Audience intelligence is one of the most powerful parts of presentation preparation.

Invest the time to understand:

➡️ Who will be in the room
➡️ What they care about
➡️ What they are worried about
➡️ What they need to hear versus what they want to hear

Those answers should shape your message.

Your slides can be beautiful, your data can be compelling, and your voice can be clear.

But none of those things can replace knowing your audience.

Make audience intelligence your presentation superpower and use it before you ever open PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Get more proven tips and strategies for delivering an effective presentation when you visit the Moxie blog 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/how-to-handle-a-difficult-audience/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

Your audience doesn’t need all of your knowledge.They need the part that can change what they do.Expert speakers have a ...
09/09/2026

Your audience doesn’t need all of your knowledge.

They need the part that can change what they do.

Expert speakers have a tremendous advantage: years of experience, research, experimentation, and hard-earned insight.

But that depth can also become a communication trap.

When you know a subject deeply, it’s easy to explain the nuances and complexities that make up your field.

However, depending on who is in your audience during a keynote speech, they may wind up thinking, “Okay… but why does this matter to me?”

Instead of trying to transfer your entire body of knowledge, identify the one or two ideas they need most.

Make them clear, memorable, relevant, and immediately applicable.

The goal is not to make your audience experts.

It’s to make them better equipped to act because they heard from an expert.

For a full breakdown of types of keynote speakers, visit the Moxie blog 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/keynote-speaker-ultimate-guide/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

The brain constructs meaning from messages.When people encounter a complex or ambiguous communication, they don't passiv...
09/07/2026

The brain constructs meaning from messages.

When people encounter a complex or ambiguous communication, they don't passively absorb what was said.

They fill interpretive gaps using prior experience, existing beliefs, and whatever context feels most relevant to their current situation.

For leaders, this has a specific implication: a message that leaves gaps will be completed by the audience, not by you.

The same words, landing in a different cognitive environment, produce a different meaning.

The leaders who produce strong organizational alignment understand this.

They don't just communicate the strategy as it exists at the top.

They translate it for the environments where it needs to live, with enough behavioral specificity that people can act on genuine understanding rather than reasonable approximation.

The full Medium article by Moxie President Gregg Fasbinder goes deeper into what that translation actually requires 👇
https://medium.com//120e6a867f10?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

Have you heard of the memory palace technique?It’s an ancient method that has been validated by modern neuroscience, whi...
09/04/2026

Have you heard of the memory palace technique?

It’s an ancient method that has been validated by modern neuroscience, which helps you maintain access to your content even when experiencing public speaking anxiety.

Here’s the step-by-step implementation:

➡️ Choose a familiar location (your home, office, or regular walking route)
➡️ Identify 5 to 7 distinct locations along a logical path
➡️ Associate each major section of your presentation with a specific location
➡️ Create vivid, unusual mental images connecting your content to each spot
➡️ Practice “walking” through your mental palace to retrieve information

The more unusual and emotionally engaging your mental images, the easier they are to recall under pressure.

So, don’t be afraid to make them humorous or dramatic.

And don’t let your nerves run you.

Check out the Moxie blog for a deeper dive into getting over stage fright 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/how-to-get-over-stage-fright/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

People with a growth mindset tend to achieve more than those who have a more fixed mindset.That is to say, those who bel...
09/02/2026

People with a growth mindset tend to achieve more than those who have a more fixed mindset.

That is to say, those who believe that their talents and their skills are innate gifts.

These days, most of us understand—at least on a rational level—that a growth mindset is necessary to achieve our goals.

We understand that grit will be equally necessary, just like we understand that vegetables are good for us.

We know, logically, that hard work, good strategies, and feedback from others are a better way to improve and progress than believing that we either do or don't have what it takes to make our goals come true.

But really having a growth mindset is much easier said than done.

And it’s something you need to put some time and effort into.

Visit the Moxie blog to read more about the techniques for cultivating a growth mindset 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/cultivate-a-growth-mindset-3-proven-techniques/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

Every business has a story, and that includes yours.But does your team know how to tell it across departments?Business s...
08/31/2026

Every business has a story, and that includes yours.

But does your team know how to tell it across departments?

Business storytelling is about helping people understand why your ideas matter.

Whether you’re presenting to leadership, pitching a client, selling a product, or communicating a new strategy, having storytelling skills helps you in countless ways.

That includes:

✅ Making complex information easier to understand
✅ Creating an emotional connection
✅ Capturing and maintaining audience attention
✅ Making data more memorable
✅ Building credibility and trust
✅ Moving your audience toward action

If you want to check off all of these boxes with your next presentation…

Visit the Moxie website to find out more about our training and coaching 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

08/30/2026

Failure is part of the process, not the end of the story.

We all experience it.

No matter how successful or talented someone becomes, they’ve had moments when things didn’t go according to plan.

So why do we treat our own failures like they’re proof we’re not good enough?

Instead, try looking at failure as feedback.

Maybe you need a new strategy, more practice, or to ask for help.

Maybe you simply need to try again.

The strongest people aren’t those who never stumble.

They’re the ones who refuse to stay down.

Watch the full video for more strategies on how to fail forward, not backward 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iItNj7VDC0&t=2s&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

Most speeches are forgotten before the speaker even leaves the stage.So if you’re giving what is intended to be an inspi...
08/28/2026

Most speeches are forgotten before the speaker even leaves the stage.

So if you’re giving what is intended to be an inspirational speech, the goal can’t simply be to deliver information.

You need to create an experience your audience will remember.

That starts with understanding how the human brain responds to emotion, meaning, and story, and then deliberately building your message around those principles.

Research from the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute has highlighted the critical role emotion plays in decision-making.

Their findings show that, when it comes to speech writing, you can’t lead with logic alone.

If you open up with data and business rationale, you are asking your audience to process information before you’ve given them a reason to care.

Tell a story, paint a vivid picture, describe a shared struggle.

Create a moment your audience can recognize themselves in before laying down the facts.

And then, they will be much more likely to move toward action.

Learn more about how to write a truly inspirational speech on the Moxie blog 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/how-to-write-an-inspirational-speech/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

08/27/2026

What if your anxiety before a presentation could become energy instead of an obstacle?

That’s where reframing comes in.

Reframing means changing the way you interpret an experience so you can respond to it differently.

Anxiety and excitement can feel remarkably similar in the body, but they are separated by the meaning we attach to those sensations.

When you reframe anxiety as excitement, you’re giving your brain a new story to work with.

And that can change how you approach the moment.

Instead of focusing on everything that could go wrong, you can direct that energy toward your message, your audience, and the opportunity in front of you.

Your nerves don’t have to control your presentation.

For the rest of the steps to build fear-proof resilience, watch the full video 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91i1DavErc&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

The human brain is hardwired for stories.Thanks to the release of dopamine, aka our memory hormone, that comes with it, ...
08/26/2026

The human brain is hardwired for stories.

Thanks to the release of dopamine, aka our memory hormone, that comes with it, a great story will stick in our minds much longer than a data-packed chart will.

Facts can be boring, but even boring topics can be brought to life with the right stories.

Hence, if you can help your audience recall information, even about that boring topic, by using a story, you are engaging them from the start.

Symbols, metaphors, analogies, case studies, and anecdotes help us communicate what the data is all about, making it real and digestible.

There are so many ways to tap into the power of storytelling, no matter your industry.

So, if you have a couple of stories in your back pocket that you can use for certain presentations, you are sure to drive your audience in the right direction.

Visit the Moxie blog for all the expert audience engagement tips you’ll need to captivate your audience 👇
https://www.moxieinstitute.com/expert-audience-engagement-tips-to-captivate-your-audience/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow

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