The Naked Presenter replete with experts

Garr Reynolds is author of THE NAKED PRESENTER and one of the little things he does as he brings public speaking challenges to life is include comments by many experts -- most of the comments from relatively recent publications or talks. I like Reynolds' work because it dovetails with a lot of my personal ideas on public speaking. In a very real sense my reading of Reynolds is an example of Selective Exposure and Selective Perception. By the way, those are interesting concepts that speakers should at least recognize even if you don't have a complete understanding. We talk about those concepts in several of the Coker College communication classes that I teach.

I am not yet through with the Reynolds book but I have been impressed with the experts and the sources he has been noting in his chapters. I thought it might be useful to discuss where some of this information is coming from.

First, I was surprised to be introduced to the name of Christopher Craft who has a business called PalmettoLearning LLC. Craft is a resource for effective teaching based in Columbia, SC. It is interesting to me that an author living in Japan provided my first exposure to Craft. in the Naked Presenter Craft is given the opportunity to share some information about avoiding cognitive overload. (p 37)

Another two-page feature presentation was staged by Les Posen, who was in the book to discuss dealing with the fear of public speaking from a neuroscience perspective.

This post would drag far too long if I put in all the sources mentioned by Reynolds but there are some additional books that are really gems. One is Brain Rules by Dr. John Medena - Pear Press 2009. Excellent on many levels.

A third book is not even out at Amazon though it is in the pre-order stages and this is Guy Kawasaki's newest book -- ENCHANTMENT - THE ART OF CHANGING HEARTS, MINDS AND ACTIONS.

David Rock, a psychologist, is a master thinker in the field of human performance and his book THE BRAIN AT WORK gets some regular notice in THE NAKED PRESENTER.