2017 World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist - Godfrey McAllister's Impromptu "Dare to Dream"

in 2017, 4-time Toastmasters International District Table Topics multi-District Champion Godfrey McAllister was granted the opportunity to compete in the World Championship of Public Speaking by default. The 1st place District 47 International Speech Champion could not travel to Vancouver to compete in the Semi-Finals. Neither could the second place winner. That is how the 3rd place District 47 winner was asked to compete at the Semi-Finals.

Godfrey McAllister accepted the invitation with less than two weeks to prepare. In August 2017, he competed in the Semi-Finals. He won his Semi-Finals with his improved District Speech, "What Do You See?"

But now there was a problem. The very next day was the World Championship Finals...and Godfrey McAllister was now a Finalist. What he did not know was that the rules required that the Finals speech could not be the same as the Semi-Finals Speech or any that was used during the competition year which began in January. He was the only one of ten Finalists who did not have a speech. He tried to prepare, rehearse and master a speech in one night. Good luck with that. For context, the winner that year presented a speech that he had been rehearsing for two years, having placed 2nd in the world with that same speech two years ago.

And that is how Godfrey McAllister found himself on stage delivering his greatest ever Imrpomptu Contest Speech - Dare to Dream. The only prop he had with him was the notes of his overnight prepared speech which he abandoned five minutes before he was called on stage. You will see how he masterfully put those notes to great use.

Godfrey McAllister has become the leading expert on Impromptu Speaking, better known as Table Topics in Toastmasters International. He has copped an unprecedented four District Table Topics Championships between Districts 81 and 47. The world awaits his new book, "Created to Conquer"... and you can be assured that in it you will learn everything you will ever need to know about Impromptu Speaking.