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Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:16:00 GMT

In response to demand, we are expanding our two-day Presenting to Win workshops across the nation, the first of which is in New York in March.

Sign up by January 15 and receive a complimentary, autographed copy of Jerry Weissman's latest book, Presentations in Action.

Only 25 seats available. Register now!

If you cannot join us in San Francisco or New York, please let us know where you would like to see our workshops. Workshop requests

Presenting to Win Two-day Workshop

Now is the time to learn how to develop, deliver and present your message effectively.

Register for our next Presenting to Win Two-day Workshop scheduled for March 6-7. The cost is $1750 per person. Please contact us directly for Group discounts.

This workshop is designed for all levels; senior managers, mid-level managers, salespersons, administrative staff, engineers, educators, authors, fundraisers for not-for-profit organizations, and more.

Learn Jerry Weissman's proven techniques

You've spent countless hours and endless dollars to develop your message and your proposal; how you communicate that message and yourself is critical.

Now you can learn the same techniques that have helped hundreds of companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market to optimize your own communication and presentation skills.

New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, New York 10036 USA

Date: March 6 and 7, 2012

Time: 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM

Download Workshop Agenda [PDF]

Upcoming Workshop

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:53:00 GMT

Three-day Presenting to Win Workshop

You've spent countless hours and endless dollars to develop your business proposal or employment resume. How you communicate your message and your self is critical.

Now you can learn what has helped hundreds of companies raise hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market.

Power Presentations will offer three consecutive full-day public workshop versions of its proven private program. Each workshop will provide basic techniques that, when combined, address the essential elements of any presentation; and each workshop will provide a rich learning experience with coaching, breakouts, exercises, and videos.

This cost-effective series is open to individuals in all walks of life including business, government, academia, job seekers and not-for-profit organizations. The workshops are designed to be taken as a group contiguously or as individual sessions.

Program Size: 25-30 attendees from different companies

Location: Sofitel San Francisco Bay

Date/Program: Three-day event, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

January, 2012 - Day One: Presenting to Win

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s international bestseller, named as a “must read” by Fortune magazine, offers the seven steps of story development, and includes participatory exercises in brainstorming and how to develop a strong introduction that will capture any audience immediately.

This workshop also includes the full tutorial from the core program in how to design and animate Microsoft PowerPoint graphics. These instructions will be followed by a hands-on coaching session in which participants will receive direct feedback on their individual slide shows. All participants will learn from each other.

January, 2012 - Day Two: The Power Presenter

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s book of the same name, offers techniques in how to control the fear of public speaking and present with poise, assurance and confidence. The skills, which include eye contact, body language, gestures, voice production, and cadence, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, live videotaping, and video analysis of famous speakers, among them John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.

January, 2012 - Day Three: How to Handle Tough Questions

This workshop, based on Jerry Weissman’s book, In the Line of Fire, offers techniques in how to handle tough questions. The techniques, which include: active listening, paraphrasing, addressing the key issue, and adding value, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, and video analysis of famous Q&A sessions including presidential debates, press conferences, senate hearings, and television interviews.

Q&A Workshop

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:19:00 GMT

In preparation for our upcoming public workshop on How to Handle Tough Questions, we hosted a Q&A workshop with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Mastery in Communication Initiative .

The Mastery in Communication Initiative promotes communication excellence by providing coursework, coaching, and a breadth of tools and resources to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond.

Stanford’s mission is to help students at all levels of communication competence achieve a mastery in communication. Our mission here at Power Presentations is to help you achieve a mastery in communications and presentation style.

We hope you join us for our upcoming workshop, September 20-22, 2010.

Day One: Presenting to Win
This session, based on Presenting to Win, offers the seven steps of story development, including a participatory brainstorming session. One of several interactive sessions will be an exercise on developing a strong Opening Gambit to capture any audience immediately and succinctly describe a company’s business.

This workshop also includes a full tutorial on how to design and animate Microsoft PowerPoint graphics. These instructions will be followed by a hands-on coaching session in which participants will receive direct feedback on their individual slideshows.

Day Two: The Power Presenter
This session, based on The Power Presenter, offers techniques in how to control the fear of public speaking and to present with poise, assurance and confidence.

The skills, which include eye contact, body language, gestures, voice production, and cadence, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, live videotaping, and video analysis of famous speakers, among them John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.

Day Three: How to Handle Tough Questions
This session, based on In the Line of Fire, offers techniques in how to handle tough questions.

The techniques which include: active listening, paraphrasing, addressing the key issue, and adding value, will be implemented by exercises, breakouts, and video examples of famous Q&A sessions including presidential debates, press conferences, senate hearings, and television interviews.

Notre Dame ESTEEM Program Visits Silicon Valley

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:29:00 GMT

Jerry Weissman spoke at the University of Notre Dame’s first ever ESTEEM/Silicon Valley event on Thursday, April 22.

The ESTEEM Program (Engineering, Science, Technology Entrepreneurship & Excellence Master’s) is a one-year Masters of Science Program. It has been developed as a joint program of the College of Science, College of Engineering and Mendoza College of Business. The objective is to provide Science and Engineering graduates the skills required to take science and/or engineering inventions and translate those inventions into commercial ventures while strengthening their science and/or engineering skills.

Speaking: FEI Silicom Valley Chapter

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:13:00 GMT

Earlier this week, Jerry Weissman presented to a group of senior financial executives at the Financial Executives International (FEI) Silicom Valley Chapter Dinner Meeting at the Palo Alto Hills Country Club.

FEI provides exclusive peer networking for chief financial officers, controllers, treasurers, tax executives and finance and accounting professors in academia. Its membership base is 15,000 strong with chapters throughout United States and Canada.

Other speakers in 2009 included Joshua Bolten, former White House Chief of Staff; Ronnie Lott, NFL Hall of Famer; and, Tom Campbell, former US Congressman.

New Release

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:22:00 GMT

We are proud to announce the new release of the Japanese version of The Power Presenter, published by WAVE Publishing.

Free Speech

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:23:00 GMT

Readers of our blogs know that our subject matter is intentionally apolitical so as to remain objective in our commentary on our areas of specialization, presentations and communication. We will depart from that policy today to offer an opinion about a related subject: Freedom of speech as it is affected by the recent Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to provide campaign financing. We object to that decision and support measures to counteract it as expressed in an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. The article was written by Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate, and Robert Weissman (no relation) the president of Public Citizen.

Free Book Summary

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:24:00 GMT

Visit getAbstract to download a free summary of The Power Presenter. You can download versions of this summary for Kindle, Sony Reader, BlackBerry, Palm, eBook Reader, pdf or listen to an audio version.

getAbstract summarizes business books. Their mission is to provide executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. They deliver this knowledge in concise summaries of the latest, sharpest and most relevant books. Their summaries are available in English, German and Spanish.

The Power Presenter in Chinese

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:24:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that The Power Presenter: Style, and Strategy from America’s Top Speaking Coach will be published by China Renmin University Press in simplified Chinese.

Dr. Kai Fu Lee, former Preseident of Google Greater China and founder of Innovation Works, says it best,”This book, The Power Presenter, is an excellent exposition into what makes a great communicator, and how to become one, starting from the inside. Using the very persuasion techniques it teaches, this book applies plain language, fun examples, and convincing demonstrations to lead the reader to absorb and internalize the concepts, and gain the skills and confidence to truly become a power presenter.”

Off to Egypt with Ideavelopers

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:30:00 GMT

Jerry frequently travels abroad for speaking engagements and coaching sessions. His most recent trip was to Cairo for Ideavelopers. Ideavelopers is an Egytptian integrated finance venture developement and incubation firm that partners with technology entreprenuers to greatly increase their odds of success.

On the Ideavelopers website, you will find links to a wealth of online resources that range from informative to educative to news to advice as well as to a variety of documents and whitepapers that they publish regularly.

Jerry worked with a number Ideavelopers portfolio companies, coaching the group on the Power Presentations Core Program.

Among the companies were:

Wave to Publish The Power Presenter in Japanese

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:56:00 GMT

Wave Publishers has purchased the rights to translate and distribute Jerry Weissman’s The Power Presenter in Japan.

The book’s Chapter 10, “What Every Speaker Can Learn from Barack Obama,” was of particular interest to the publisher because of the popularity in Japan of President Obama’s public speaking skills. Since Obama took office, there have been many articles in the Japanese press about how the Japanese are learning English from him. Many of their lessons have come from the 2008 release of the international best-selling book “The Speeches of Barack Obama,” which sold nearly a half million copies in only 3 months and an audio CD of his speeches, which has sold over 200,000 copies.

To further leverage the Obama phenomenon, Wave Publishers has asked Jerry to write a new preface to The Power Presenter for Japan, and to include an analysis President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech today. Here is a preview of the new preface:

The Nobel acceptance speech was noteworthy for its clear structure, or the use of an overarching roadmap. Flow Structure is one of the seven steps of story development in Chapter Four of The Power Presenter, “How to Prepare Your Content.” In the Nobel speech, Obama chose two Flow Structures: Problem/Solution and Chronology. The problem was the seeming dichotomy of the award of a peace prize to the head of a state engaged in two wars; the solution was his definition of a “just war.” He then supported his definition with a chronological history of past wars and future steps toward peace.

Silicom Ventures Boot Camp

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:15:00 GMT

On October 28, Jerry Weissman was coached an encore session for the Entrepreneur Boot Camp: Build your Business in a Slow Growth Economy, hosted by Silicom Ventures.

Jerry coached a group of 40+ entrepreneurs on How to capture Your Audience Immediately.

This hour long Boot Camp included several interactive exercises. One of his most well received exercises included coaching several participants in real time to develop and deliver their own Opening Gambits.

Soundview: Best Business Books 2009

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:40:00 GMT

Soundview Executive Book Summaries deems The Power Presenter to be one of the thirty best business books of 2009.

For more than thirty years, Soundview has been outlining the key points and ideas of full-length business books into quick and easy-to-read print summaries.

Other books on the top thirty list include: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni; Chaotics by John Caslione, Philip Kotler; and, Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki.

Workshops: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow II

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:40:00 GMT

Our most recent Power Presenter workshop on September 21. 2009 was held again at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt.

The group broke into smaller groups for breakout sessions led by Jerry and Nichole.

Please join us for our next workshop on January 14, 2009.

A123 Jumpstarts IPO Market

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:16:00 GMT

A123 Systems, an electric-car battery maker soared more than 50% on its first day of trading as a public company. Demand was so strong that underwriters boosted the number of shares sold by more than 50%. The Wall Street Journal reported that “underwriters substantially marked up the price at which those shares were initially sold to the public. A123’s stock had been expected to come to market somewhere between $8 and $9.50 a share and was instead priced at $13.50, for a total deal value of $380 million. Shares ended the day at $20.29.”

Jerry coached the road show presentation.

Shanghai Daily

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:17:00 GMT

Shanghai Daily published getAbstract’s Top Five USA Business Books. We are proud to announce The Power Presenter as one of Top Five Business Books on this list.

Shanghai daily, an English-language newspaper located in the People’s Republic of China serves as a platform of Shanghai’s foreign publicity.

getAbstract summarizes business books, Their mission is to provide executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. get Abstract delivers this knowledge in concise summaries of the latest, sharpest and most relevant books.

And the race is on…

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:18:00 GMT

Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which a presenter presents 20 slides for 20 seconds apiece, within a fixed time period of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.

This format was created in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein-Dytham Architecture, who wanted to give young designers a place to meet, network, and show their work. They devised a format that kept presentations very concise in order to keep the audience’s attention and increase the number of presenters within the course of one night. They took the name “Pecha Kucha” from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation.

Since its development, Pecha Kucha has soared in popularity, with coverage in Bloomberg, Wired Magazine and recently on the Presentation Zen blog.

On Thursday, July 30, 2009, I will be attending and reporting on my first Pecha Kucha event in San Francisco.

tuned for my in depth analysis of this form of presenting that has swept across the world.

Presentation Graphics: A Special Series II

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:48:00 GMT

In April 2009 we launched a two-week series on presentation graphics. In response to our readers, we are going to run a second series of blogs dedicated to presentation graphics.

Graphics can be either your best friend or worst enemy during your presentation. Beginning Monday, July 20th, Jerry and the Power Presentations team will offer you daily insights on the role and use of graphics in presentations. Please join us.

Macintalkers host Jerry at Apple

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:58:00 GMT

Macintalkers—a member of Toastmasters International—hosted Jerry on Wednesday, June 3, from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM at the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. This event was part of Macintalkers ongoing “Cinematic Keynotes” series. Jerry’s talk focused on how to connect with your audience using body language.

Jerry uses video clips to illustrate how to deliver a winning speech or presentation that will engage your audience from beginning to end.

Macintalkers was chartered on the Apple Computer campus on May 1, 1989. This group meets every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. For more information, please contact VP of Membership.

Silicom Summit 2009: Boot Camp with Jerry

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:05:00 GMT

Jerry recently spoke at the 2009 Silicom Summit, hosted by Silicom Ventures. Their goal is to provide participating companies with a concentrated opportunity to improve their presentation and then present their company to interested Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists.

There were 40 plus entrepreneurs in attendance.

Final Stop: Podgorica, Montenegro

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:06:00 GMT

Jerry, along with the staff and organizers, is ready to greet the participants of Jerry’s lecture.

Jerry lectures a group of students, faculty and business people.

Jerry ends the lecture series with an interview on a local television station.

Prep for final stop in the Balkans

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:05:00 GMT

The many sponsors of the Podgorica advertise Jerry’s lecture with a series of lighted kiosks placed throughout the city.

Sponsors: University UDG, MATE Publishing, Crnogorski Telekom, Lovcen Osiguranje AD, Montenegro Bonus, TV IN and Pobjeda AD.

The night before the Podgorica lecture, Jerry dines with the sponsors.

The registrars stand ready for the swarm of participants.

Jerry’s Balkans Tour Continues

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:19:00 GMT

Jerry’s tour of the Balkans continued to Tuzla, Bosnia.

An audience of students, faculty and business people attended the lecture.

This lecture was sponsored by Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Sirbegovic Grupa, and PROMO International Grupa.

PROMO International Grupa in celebration of its 20th anniversary and, true to its name, promoted the lecture on its website.

A good time was had by all.

Stay tuned for more photos from Podgorica, Montenegro.

Next Stop: Bled, Slovenia

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:28:00 GMT

At the invitation of The Zagreb School of Economics and Management and Mate, the publisher of the Croatian and Serbian editions of Presenting to Win and In the Line of Fire, Jerry continues his tour. This stop, Bled, Slovenia.

Jerry’s lecture series focused on Delivering Your Presentation Effectively, and includes his techniques on developing your story, connecting with your audience, tools of the trade and crisis management.

This Bled lecture was sponsored by Cisco Systems, Poslovna akademija Finance, and SAVA-SCHÄFER d.o.o., and delivered to business leaders from these organizations.

Jerry on Tour

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:02:00 GMT

The Zagreb School of Economics and Management and Mate, the publisher of the Croatian and Serbian editions of Presenting to Win and In the Line of Fire, invited Jerry for his second tour of Eastern Europe.

The first stop on the tour was at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management, where Jerry lectured students and faculty on key techniques from his latest book, The Power Presenter. The lecture included video clips, among them, the famous Kennedy-Nixon debate.

Stay tuned for more photos from Jerry’s next stop on the tour: Bled, Slovenia

The Power Presenter in the Top 10

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:03:00 GMT

Jerry’s latest book, The Power Presenter, has recently been listed in Wirtschaftsblatt, a popular Austrian business newspaper, as #6 on its top 10 list of business books published in English.

The WirtschaftsBlatt is Austria´s only daily business newspaper. It provides its office and stock exchange readers with current, relevant and useful information about the Austrian and international business events daily.

Jerry Leaves for Central Europe

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:04:00 GMT

The Zagreb School of Economics and Mate Publishing have invited Jerry to present content and video from all 3 of his books in tour that begins on May 18 in Zagreb, Croatia.

The opening graphic in this news item is a reproduction of the billboards appearing in Zagreb, Croatia, announcing Jerry’s talk there. For several years Jerry has been offering insights from his books to students and business leaders in central Europe. Over the next few weeks we will be posting photographs of his travels this year.

Jerry’s Selling Power

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:05:00 GMT

During this year’s SellingPower 2.0 conference, Jerry presented the awards for best speaker. Just prior to the conference Jerry and Gerhard Gschwandtner—Founder and Publisher of SellingPower—sat down together for a dialog about Jerry’s newest book The Power Presenter. This conversation is now available on the SellingPower website.

Listen and watch as two luminaries discuss a variety of subjects; from famous Presidents, to the use of body language in presentations.

Presentation Graphics: A Special Series

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:40:00 GMT

Jerry’s third, and most recent, book release The Power Presenter is focused on the personal delivery of presentations. Since the book release, early this year, Jerry has been blogging almost every day; answering questions we receive from our clients and readers on how to handle specific situations while presenting. During this time we have also been asked about another component of a successful presentation; the graphics. In response, we are going to run a two-week, ten-part series dedicated to presentation graphics.

Graphics can be either your best friend or worst enemy during your presentation. Beginning Monday, April 20th, Jerry and the Power Presentations team will offer you daily insights on the role and use of graphics in presentations. Please join us.

Nancy Duarte uses The Power Presenter

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:46:00 GMT

Monday, April 6th, our good friend and colleague—Nancy Duarte—blogged about her speaking experience at Web 2.0 Expo. Having been to her workshops, and seen her deliver talks, we can attest she is definitely skilled in front of an audience. Nonetheless, after reading The Power Presenter, she was able to deliver her talk with greater comfort and confidence.

Nancy Duarte is a gifted author—Slide:ology—and CEO of Duarte Design since 1990. Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations, regardless of delivery technology or device. Duarte is one of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area. Nancy’s twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s common causes.

SCU Hosts Inaugural Workshop

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:58:00 GMT

Last Friday—April 3rd—Jerry and Sixtus delivered the first public workshop based on Jerry’s newest book release The Power Presenter. The workshop was held at Santa Clara University in the Leavey School of Business’ Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In attendance were students from SCU and Stanford, startup entrepreneurs, and employees from local business.

The Power Presenter: in Short Form

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:34:00 GMT

Jerry’s new book release, The Power Presenter, is now available from getAbstract. And, The Power Presenter is one of the 5 top downloaded book summaries on the site!

Since its launch in 1999, getAbstract has become the world’s largest provider of business book summaries and has built up a base of more than four million satisfied customers. Each five-page summary is presented in a crisp, magazine-page format. The summaries are logically structured to get the maximum out of your reading time. If you are a person with too much to do, and not enough time to do it… The Power Presenter from getAbstract is for you!

The Power Presenter: in Short Form

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:08:00 GMT

Jerry’s new book release, The Power Presenter, is now available from getAbstract. And, The Power Presenter is one of the 5 top downloaded book summaries on the site!

Jerry’s Life, Love & Health: part 2

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:14:00 GMT

Christopher Springman completes his radio interview with Jerry in this second installment. Listen as he and Jerry discuss a wide range of topics from neonatology to the value of coaching. Focusing on his recent book The Power Presenter, Jerry offers interesting insight into the history and scientific study behind his unique approach to public speaking.

Life, Love & Health airs on multiple XM and Sirius Satellite Radio news and talk stations including ABC, CNN, Fox and ESPN, on Public Radio (NPR) affiliates, on Wal-Mart Radio and, internationally, on Voice of America and the American Forces Network.

Listen to the second half of their conversation by clicking HERE.

Jerry’s Life, Love & Health: part 1

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:19:00 GMT

On his nationally syndicated radio show Life, Love & Health, Christopher Springman had a 40 minute conversation with Jerry last month. Their dialog focused on the role of story development and presentation in every day life. They also discussed the best ways to interact with your physician.

Listen to part one of their conversation by clicking HERE.

Invent Your Future with Jerry – II

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:25:00 GMT

Yesterday, Jerry gave a session keynote at the 3rd annual “Invent Your Future Conference for Women.” Held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, the conference is the premier educational event for businesswomen in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. It features nationally-recognized keynote speakers, best-selling authors, thought leaders and business experts who offer informative seminars, tools, and techniques to accelerate career advancement.

Jerry’s presentation, “Power Up Your Executive Presence,” was based on his latest book, The Power Presenter, which references many famous and non-famous speakers. The book provides readers with access to a special area of our web site with illustrative videos of those speakers. Jerry showed several of the clips live—among them the historic Kennedy-Nixon debate in the 1960 presidential election.

Noted Bay Area news anchor, Sydnie Kohara, came to the event to observe Jerry because she had read about him in an article in the San Jose Mercury News. When the person scheduled to introduce Jerry was late for the event, Ms. Kohara was pressed into service to do the honors.

Jerry, whose background is in television broadcast news, traded war stories with Sydnie about network newsrooms.

GO with Jerry

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:32:00 GMT

If you were flying Air-Tran during January of this year, you may have run into Jerry—he was on every flight for the entire month! Well, not physically, of course, but in spirit and in print. Jerry wrote an article—Present Perfect—for the January 2009 issue of AirTran’s GO inflight magazine.

Learn the logic behind verbalization, WIIFY, and responding in real time. Jerry’s article can be found in the online version on page 56.

Jerry’s Bottom Line

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:36:00 GMT

Bottom Line/Personal—in their March 15, 2009 edition—published excerpts of their interview with Jerry. The article is titled Improve Your Speaking Style, Learn from President Obama, and covers key elements anyone can use to improve their public speaking and presentations. Learn how master orators use antithesis, alliteration, anaphora, and anecdotes! You can subscribe to Bottom Line/Personal to receive insights all year long. You can read Jerry’s interview article here.

George Mocharko has a conversation with Jerry

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:41:00 GMT

Monday, March 16th, George Mocharko—Communications Manager for Future Business Leaders of America – Phi Beta Lambda—interviewed Jerry for a podcast. The interview covers many topics found in The Power Presenter, and his recently published article. Jerry describes the unique presentation skills of Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and other luminary famous people. Jerry also offers insights for students preparing presentations in their academic environment. The interview can be heard in its entirety here.

Indezine Interview

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:49:00 GMT

Geetesh Bajaj—Indezine publisher and PowerPoint guru—interviewed Jerry on March 16, 2009. The interview’s fosus is Jerry’s newest book release The Power Presenter. This is the second time Geetesh has interviewed Jerry, and the conversation covers topics including the role of body language in presentations, and Jerry’s inspiration for the book.

Macintalkers host Jerry at Apple

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:02:00 GMT

Macintalkers—a member of Toastmasters International—will host Jerry on Wednesday, May 13, from 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM at the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA. This event is part of Macintalkers ongoing “Cinematic Keynotes” series. Jerry’s talk will focus on how to connect with your audience using body language, and there will be a Q&A session after the talk.

Jerry appears in Tomorrow’s Business Leader

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:00:00 GMT

“To Be a Leader, Speak Like a Leader”—a new article by Jerry—was published in Tomorrow’s Business Leader, Winter 2009, page 14. Tomorrow’s Business Leader is a quarterly publication of Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda—the largest and oldest business student organization in the world. Their mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.

Drawing from critical techiques found in his newest book The Power Presenter, Jerry offers insights on how to present and communicate with confidence, naturally. The article can be downloaded here.

Invent Your Future with Jerry

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:07:00 GMT

Jerry will be speaking at the 3rd Annual Invent Your Future Conference for Womwn, being held March 31st to April 1st at the Santa Clara Convention Center—5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054. The theme for this years’ conference is “Innovation and Leadership: Breakthrough Strategies for Uncertain Times.”

The focus of Jerry’s seminar is “Survival Skills for Leaders,” and has Cheryl Hurd—NBC bay area reporter—as moderator. His talk, “Power Up Your Executive Presence,” includes insights from his most recent book The Power Presenter. The seminar is from 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM on April 1st.

Jerry Orbits on XM Satellite

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:14:00 GMT

Today, Jerry was interviewed by Keith Murphy for the Urban Journal. The interview focused on Jerry’s new book The Power Presenter. Jerry shared insights on Barack Obama’s speaking skills, The Mental Method, and the Seven Steps of Story Development. The interview aired on XM 169 “The Power,” and can also be heard as an audio stream over the web.

Breakfast with Jerry in Andover, MA

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:18:00 GMT

On Thursday, February 26th from 7:30 AM through 9:00 AM, Jerry will be speaking at an event hosted by the Merimack Valley Chamber of Congress in Andover, MA. Jerry’s talk “The Power of Presentation,” is based on his new book The Power Presenter. The event is being held at the La Quinta Inn in Andover, MA. More information on Jerry’s talk is available on the MMVC website.

An Evening with Jerry at the ASTD in Boston

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:13:00 GMT

On Wednesday, February 25th from 7:00 PM through 8:30 PM, Jerry will be speaking at an event hosted by the Boston, MA chapter of ASTD [American Society for Training and Development]. Jerry’s talk “How to Knock It Out of the Park Each Time You Present,” is based on his new book The Power Presenter. The doors open for the event at 6:00 PM at the Regus Business Center in Newton, MA. More information on Jerry’s talk is available on the ASTD website.

The Breakfast Club

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:14:00 GMT

Friday morning, February 13th, Jerry spoke to a sold-out Churchill Club event in Palo Alto. Jerry Weissman, “America’s top speaking coach,” offered the 100+ participants insights from his newest book release The Power Presenter. Jerry delivered specific skills that help create an individual, natural speaking style, and reinforced them with archival video clips of famous speakers.

For the many people unable to attend due to over-subscription, please continue to check our website for news on Jerry’s upcoming events. You, too, can be a Power Presenter.

Breakfast with Jerry

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:12:00 GMT

Jerry will be giving a breakfast talk for the Churchill Club on Friday, February 13th, in Palo Alto, CA.

The Churchill Club is Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum. The 5,000-member, nonprofit organization has built a reputation for dynamic, in-the-news programs featuring Silicon Valley CEOs, up-and-coming executives and national business leaders. The Club is known for its smart, provocative and often irreverent programs. In addition to a stellar line-up of senior executives, the Club features panel discussions with invaluable information on technology, entrepreneurship, life sciences, business leadership and innovation. The events regularly draw more than 400 attendees and give members the opportunity to network with the best of Silicon Valley.

This event is being sponsored by Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, and will be held at their campus in Palo Alto.

An Evening with Jerry

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:21:00 GMT

Jerry Weissman, America’s top speaking coach will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California on Tuesday evening, February 10th at the Kellog Auditorium in Santa Clara. The presentation begins at 7:00 PM. The talk—The Power Presenter—will focus on skills to improve the quality and impact of your presentations, naturally. Further information is available at on the Commonwealth Club website.

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.

“Presenting to Win” takes Front and Center

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:31:00 GMT

Jerry’s Presenting to Win, having sold more than 100,000 copies and been named as one of eight “must read” books by Fortune magazine, was released in a revised and expanded edition at the end of the year. The flagship store of Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Center in New York City featured the book prominently among its business section.

Jerry to Give Keynote at University of Pennsylvania

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:38:00 GMT

On Friday, January 16, 2009, Jerry Weissman will give a keynote address at The Executive Doctorate Annual Conference. Using concepts from his newest book The Power Presenter, he will focus on how to effectively communicate both mission and marketing strategies in the PowerPoint age.

The talk will be presented in the Inn at Penn on 3600 Sansom Street in Philadelphia at 9:00 AM.

Please call our office for more details – (650)-227-1160.

Before Start-Ups Pitch – San Jose Mercury News

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:41:00 GMT

San Jose, CA

Scott Duke Harris writes about Jerry Weisman’s pro bono work with Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator. Funded by the Noyce Foundation, SCU’s GSBI is designed to help developers of non-profit businesses and programs in poor nations learn Silicon Valley lessons in how to grow and sustain their enterprises.

The article describes how Jerry coached the members—from many different third world countries—and helped them enhance their pitch presentations.

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Meet Jerry Weissman – Wall Street Journal

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:42:00 GMT

South San Francisco, CA

In one of the earliest national exposes on Jerry’s coaching at Power Presentations, Quentin Hardy writes about the positive impact of Jerry’s executive coaching on IPO stock value.

His specialty is the ‘roadshow,’ the grueling round of gathering with investment professionals that precedes the initial public offering. These marathons often involve scores of meetings in dozens of towns over a few short weeks and can be daunting for untutored executives.

“I teach them Aristotelian concepts of dramatic structure—the call to action—plus a few tricks,” Mr. Weissman says. “Of course,” he adds, “I don’t tell them its Aristotle. Instead of quoting Shakespeare, I quote Henry Ford.”

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Local Guru Helps CEOs – Peninsula Times Tribune

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:00 GMT

San Jose, CA

John Hendren describes the great success Silicon Valley start-ups are having with Jerry Weisman’s pre-IPO training for executives. John describes some of the skills Jerry brings to the Power Presentations program, and the positive impact on both the executives and their organization’s stock price.

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