Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense. He was later detailed to the State Department, for which he participated in hundreds of presentations, debates and panels throughout the country in front of skeptical, often hostile, audiences. He was called "An extraordinarily effective speaker" by President Reagan. He now conducts presentations training seminars, to include preparing companies for oral presentations for Government contracts. He has been cited in several publications as one of the top speech coaches in the U.S. His website has been #1 on Google since September 2004 for "Persuasive Presentations." His book, The Shortcut to Persuasive Presentations, has been selected as the textbook for Academic Year 2006-7 for the "Oral Presentations" Course at the Center for Leadership Education at Johns Hopkins University.
