G.O.A.Ts (Greatest of All Time) Speeches from the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking
Every year, the Toastmasters organization culminates its twelve months with an international conference where among other rituals and formalities, it picks its new President, Board of Directors, Committees and also crowns its World Champion of Public Speaking. The World Championship of Public Speaking contest began in 1938 and has grown to over 50,000 participants in 149 countries in 2022. In its early decades, it was simply referred to as the Toastmasters Speech Contest. By the 1990s, there were more than 10,000 participants every year. The contest’s popularity grew rapidly in the 2000s and the contest has been often called the …