Larry Tracy's experience in speaking under extremely demanding circumstances contribute to the unique nature of his Presentation Skills in a Nutshell workshop, and his book The Shortcut to Persuasive Presentations. This is not dry theory, but highly practical training from a person who has "felt the heat" of speaking to demanding audiences. No less an authority on communication skills than President Ronald Reagan described him as "An extraordinarily effective speaker" as a result of his successful efforts in explaining, defending and debating controversial foreign policy issues before some of the toughest audiences in the country.
Larry is a retired Army colonel, and formerly managed and trained the Pentagon's top briefing team, responsible for the daily strategic intelligence presentation to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense as well as other Washington decision-makers. He was later assigned to the State Department, and in the next three years he made almost 400 presentations before skeptical audiences, leading to that praise from "The Great Communicator."
His Workshop and his book The Shortcut, combine classic communication theory with "real-world" experience. In Lilly Walter's book What to Say When... You're Dying on the Platform, Larry is featured as one of the nation's leading authorities on public speaking. He has taught his workshop to thousands of people in the private sector and government. His clients include corporate executives, lawyers, U.S. diplomats, economists, scientists, policy researchers and journalists.
He has appeared on numerous national television programs, including Crossfire, Nightline, CNN Worldnews, and The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour. He holds a Master's degree from Georgetown University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the Inter-American Defense College.
His website, www.tracy-presentation.com, has consistently ranked in the top tier of the Google, MSN and other major search engines for the last four years.
He is fluent in Spanish, has lived in Argentina and Bolivia, and is a frequent guest on Spanish-language television programs. He also conducts workshops in Spanish for Latin American executives who must make presentations in English, helping them learn to do so in the time-sensitive, "bottom line" style which U.S. clients are accustomed to receiving.
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