Speaker · Communication Strategist · Facilitator
Make it land.
Ian Mullen helps people turn ideas into communication people understand, remember and act on.
- TEDx speaker
- Strategic technology leader
- Communication programme creator
- Stand-up comedian
You said it.
They heard it.
Those are not necessarily the same thing.
The core idea
Most communication starts in the wrong place.
Usually asked
What do I want to say?
Better question
What needs to happen in their head?
Everything changes when you move the starting point. Structure, language, evidence, pace, even the jokes. You stop transmitting and start engineering an outcome in someone else’s mind.
The philosophy
Communication is the deliberate design of recognition.
Not decoration. Not delivery tips. The deliberate work of building the moment where someone thinks: yes, that’s it.
Ways to work together
The unusual bit
And occasionally, a microphone.
Stand-up is a communication laboratory. Timing, economy of language, audience awareness, expectation, misdirection, rhythm, tension and surprise, tested live, with immediate and unsentimental results.
“There aren’t many corporate presentations where the audience can have you removed after five minutes. Comedy provides useful feedback.”
Ideas