BEST BOOKS for Speakers, Presenters, Trainers and Experts

Here are my recommendations for the BEST books for presenters, trainers and conference speakers.

Would you like to learn to be a better presenter?
Want to develop more confidence?
Like to master more speaker skills to engage your audience?

Then these books and resources are for YOU!

Expert Positioning and Personal Branding

These books can help you position and differentiate yourself as a speaker

Successful motivational speakers — Pop by Sam Horn (Packaging your topics & ideas)

Successful motivational speakers — Me 2.0 by Dan Schawbel

Successful motivational speakers — Making It Happen by Peter Sheahan

Better Graphics & Powerpoint Presentations

These are amazing speaker for books for designing better presentations and screen graphics.

Successful motivational speakers — Presentation Zen (2nd edition) by Garr Reynolds

Successful motivational speakers — Resonate – present visual stories that transform audiences by Nancy Duarte

Successful motivational speakers — How to be a Presentation God By Scott Schwertly

Pitching Your Ideas – Being Persuasive

These speaker books are for speakers who want to be more persuasive and learn to pitch their ideas from the stage

Successful motivational speakers — How to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded by Joel Bauer (Selling from Stage)

Successful motivational speakers — Life’s a Pitch – How to sell yourself and your brilliant ideas by Bayley and Mavity

Successful motivational speakers — The Art of the Pitch – persuasion and presentation skills that win biz by Peter Coughter

Using More Humour when Presenting

These are my favourite speaker books for being a funnier speaker

More Funny More Money — More Funny More Money by Marty Wilson

Talk Funny — Do you Talk Funny? by David Nihill

Successful motivational speakers — Comedy Writing Secrets – by Mel Helitzer

Telling Stories and Being Memorable

Some very good Speaker Books on Storytelling and Story Theatre

Successful motivational speakers — Story Theater – The Science of the Art of Storytelling & Humour in Business by Doug Stevenson

Successful motivational speakers — Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath

Successful motivational speakers — Power Stories by Valerie Khoo

Facilitation Techniques Books

If you want to learn to be a better facilitator- I love these speaker books

Successful motivational speakers — The Secrets of Facilitation by Michael Wilkinson

Successful motivational speakers — Mining for Gold – Facilitation Skills to Unearth a wealth of ideas from your team by Michael Podolinsky

Books on Video Confidence & Making Videos

Every online trainer and presenter needs to be confident on camera and make more videos –

I strongly recommend Julian Mather’s Book & his E-Book – Get Video Smart

This page is a Work in Progress – If you have any books that are “MUST READS” for Presenters, Trainers and Speakers please call or email me.

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David “Big Dave” Staughton is a Business Growth Consultant and an Award-winning Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) with over 20 years of professional speaking & consulting experience.

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