Make Your Ideas Stick

Payment Options

  • One-Time Payment
  • Cost: $199.99
  • UDemy Academy
About Course

For your ideas to have impact, they must stick with an audience. A sticky idea is understood, remembered, and it changes something (whether opinions or behaviors or beliefs). And Dan Heath–along with his brother Chip–has literally written the book on Make Your Ideas Stick.

The Heath brothers wrote Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which has sold over a million copies around the world and been translated into 33 languages. The book has been used by audiences ranging from Fortune 500 CEOs to Navy admirals to pastors to teachers to a White House speechwriting team.

Make Your Ideas Stick

This new course, created 14 years after the book was published, is a practical guide to communicating more effectively. In this course, you will master the six traits that sticky ideas have in common, and you will learn to apply those traits to your own messages to make them more impactful. Case studies range from business to education to health care to online dating … with a few urban legends and proverbs thrown in for good measure.

Whether you’re giving a presentation, delivering a speech, crafting social media messages, teaching a class, or writing a persuasive pitch, you will learn specific strategies and techniques to Make Your Ideas Stick.

View further Online Courses and download our Mobile App

Dan Heath, a renowned author, speaker, and expert in business strategy. Dan Heath, alongside his brother Chip Heath, has left an indelible mark on the business world with their insightful and impactful books.

With over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translations in 33 languages, Dan Heath’s work has influenced countless individuals and organizations.

Course Modules

  • The six traits of sticky ideas
  • The “Curse of Knowledge”

  • CORE: Finding the core of your message
  • COMPACT: Using the “anchor & twist” method

  • Crystallizing and breaking schemas to seize attention
  • Using curiosity gaps to sustain attention

  • Switching from abstract to concrete language to aid understanding
  • Supporting your argument with examples: The table metaphor

  • Using human-scale numbers: Data for credibility
  • Letting your audience members “see for themselves”

  • Speaking to the Elephant: Communication must motivate the audience
  • Pushing for the “why”: Sticky ideas make people care

  • Using stories to simulate and inspire action

  • Reviewing the SUCCESS elements — and why they work

  • BONUS: Stickiness for teachers
  • BONUS: Stickiness for marketers and salespeople
  • BONUS: Making yourself stick (for applications, job interviews, etc.)

Learning Points

  • Anyone whose job hinges on communication (marketers, execs, writers, teachers, pastors, salespeople, etc)

  • How to make your messages stick with an audience
  • How to spot the traits that sticky ideas have in common
  • Why so many presentations and pitches are unmemorable and unpersuasive
  • How to get your audience to care about your communications

  • 3 hours on-demand video
  • 3 downloadable resources
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate of completion

Videos

View Course Categories

Instructor Speaking Profiles

Dan Heath
  • Business Strategy

Dan Heath, a renowned author, speaker, and expert in business strategy. Dan Heath, alongside his brother Chip Heath, has left an indelible mark on the business world with their insightful and impactful books. With over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translations in 33 languages, Dan Heath’s work has influenced countless individuals and organizations. Dan […]

  • (38)

User Reviews

View other courses available

Kathy Caprino
  • Entrepreneurship

Dramatically boost your joy, happiness, and success – and reduce burnout and stress – in your Amazing Career Project today. Join the Amazing Career Project and take the right action to experience the relief and peace that comes from positive change. These are the tools, strategies, live coaching and expert guidance to get you there […]

  • Instructor: Kathy Caprino
  • Join Waiting List
Michelle Poler

We all want to sell something: but How to sell Authentically? a product, a business idea, a service, a lifestyle, a concept, a passion project… In this How to sell Authentically course you will gain the CONFIDENCE to sell ANYTHING by being YOURSELF. After building a brand that has reached millions of people worldwide, I […]

  • Instructor: Michelle Poler
  • Online Course
  • 5 (1 reviews)
  • Communication

Are Your People Skills Working For or Against You? Your nonverbals are talking. It’s time for you to know what they are saying through Body Language Coaching Leaders by their very nature… lead. And you can’t lead from behind the curtain forever. Sometime. Somewhere. You’ll need to shake hands, kiss babies and do the deal. […]

  • Instructor: Kristin Bock
  • Online Course
Alden Mills
  • Growth Mindset

Enroll in this 5-module UNSTOPPABLE MINDSET interactive training program for supercharging your personal and workplace achievement skills. (Total learning time: 4.5 hours) This course is based on our popular UNSTOPPABLE book series and Fortune 500 workshop series taught by former Navy SEAL and serial entrepreneur Alden Mills, which has helped executives from companies and government […]

  • Instructor: Alden Mills
  • Online Course
speakers inc logo 2023
  • Leadership Courses

This self-paced On-Demand Certificate Program is designed to equip leaders and practitioners with research-based tools and strategies to foster digital flourishing. On-Demand Certificate Program Understand key terminology of digital wellness and the attention economy Identify the warning signs of technology addiction, dependency and distress Understand current technology trends and their impact on human behavior Discuss […]

  • Instructor: Digital Wellness Institute
  • Online Course
Stories That Stick Deep Dive
  • Storytelling Courses

Stories That Stick Implementation Program, is a deep dive into the best-selling book, Stories That Stick. Stories That Stick Deep Dive The author, Kindra Hall, takes you step-by-step through each lesson. Teaching you how to put each story into practice to transform your business. Implementation Program  Learn how to find, craft and tell the 4 most […]

  • Instructor: Kindra Hall
  • Online Course
The Handshake Pitch
  • Pitching Courses

How to introduce yourself at Network Events and in Social Situations with The Handshake Pitch You go to a meet up. Someone asks you the question, ‘What do you do?’ So… what do you say? I go to network events all the time, and see that most people are not ready for this situation. In fact, […]

  • Instructor: David Beckett
  • Free
Arlan Hamilton
  • Business Strategy

Arlan Hamilton will show you how to raise startup capital as she did with millions of dollars as the founder of investment fund Backstage Capital, and have generated millions of dollars in revenue as the founder of three companies — Backstage, Runner, & Arlan Was Here LLC — all for a combined $20+ million in the past 5+ years! Since […]

  • Instructor: Arlan Hamilton
  • Free

The profiles and artwork embedded on these pages are from various speakers and talent.

WeSpeak Global provides costs that are accurate at time of publishing.

These remain the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by WeSpeak Global.

Course Fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only.

Subscribe to our Newsletter and get connected:

Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.

Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated.

We use Brevo as our marketing platform. By submitting this form you agree that the personal data you provided will be transferred to Brevo for processing in accordance with Brevo's Privacy Policy.

Our Mission:

We are your partner creating memorable and engaging experiences that go beyond the event itself.

© All rights reserved 2026.  Designed using Voxel

AI Assistant
Speakers Inc Logo 2024
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.