About John

John Bowe is the award-winning author of I Have Something to Say (Random House, August, 2020). He is a speech and presentation consultant specializing in corporate and individual presentations. He has worked with students, business and charity leaders, entrepreneurs and executives from all over the world. He has given talks at the New York Public Library, the 92nd St. Y in New York City and many other companies and organizations.

John contributes regularly to CNBC about public speaking. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, McSweeney’s, This American Life, and is the author of numerous books. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNN, The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, the BBC, and many others. He lives in New York City.

 

Tips & tricks

Below are some simple strategies you can adopt right now to improve your public speaking.

 In this video, John uses the example of a struggling start-up entrepreneur named Mark Zuckerberg to show what speech training can do for the rest of us.

In his video, John explains three easy, basic principles of public speaking—which have nothing to do with learning to be confident.

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