Toastmasters International’s President, Margaret Page, resigned on May 17, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On May 17, 2022 I received an email titled Important leadership update stating that the President of Toastmasters International, Margaret Page, had resigned and thus now was toast. That email showed up at Reddit, and it described how:

 

“…a complaint was received following an incident at a District event where International President Margaret Page was a speaker. International President Page gave a speech that included statements about people of African descent and African Americans that were racially and culturally inaccurate, insensitive, stereotypical, and offensive.”

 

So far there has not been a news release from Toastmasters posted at their media center, like the one on September 8, 2021 titled British Columbia entrepreneur named Toastmasters International President. She also had been profiled in an article by Shannon Dewey in the September 2021 issue of Toastmaster, titled Meet Margaret Page, DTM.

 

There is a blog post by Diane Windingland at VirtualSpeechCoach on May 18, 2022 titled Speakers beware: Unconscious bias in your presentations. On May 17, 2022 I blogged about Fooling ourselves – biases in decision making by experts.

The image of toasted bread was adapted from this one at the National Cancer Institute.