Wink - Don Colliver

. .

Résumé :
This book is a breakthrough, a powerful tool for anyone who cares enough to give a speech or presentation. -Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing #1 Amazon Best SellerDo you freeze up before you speak? Do you over-rehearse until every ounce of you disappears from your own presentation? Do you secretly suspect everyone else got some kind of charisma manual you never received? They didn't. Nobody did. But there's something better than charisma, and it's already in you. In Wink, former touring theatrical Clown (yes, that's a real job, and yes, it's as weird and wonderful as it sounds) and longtime corporate speaking coach Don Colliver shares the techniques he's used to train thousands of presenters, from Toastmasters champions to Google teams to circus audiences who couldn't see his face in the dark. This isn't about tricks to manipulate a room. It's about Clown Presence: a way of showing up that's rooted in vulnerability, authenticity, and the simple joy of connecting with another human being. Don breaks it down into five practical pieces (the Five P's), each one built on research, two decades of trial and error, and stories from stages both polished and chaotic. In Wink, you'll learn how to:Build personal confidence that doesn't depend on the audience liking you (though they probably will). Prepare in a way that frees you up to actually be present, instead of locked into a script. Partner with your audience so a presentation becomes a conversation, not a performance. Use your own mistakes and imperfections to build trust instead of hiding them. Find genuine play and humor, even in a quarterly status update. If you've got a presentation keeping you up at night, a wedding toast looming, or just a nagging feeling that there's a more real version of you that never quite makes it to the front of the room, this book is for you. No pressure, but it might change how you see yourself entirely....

Biographie:
Don Colliver is a teacher, speaker, writer, and comedian with over twenty-five years of experience passionately engaging audiences and helping them engage with one another. Don's mission is to help every speaker profoundly impact their audience through the power of courageous vulnerability, confident authenticity, and the joy of connection. Thanks to his popular public speaking courses delivered internally at Google and around the world, hundreds of nervous speakers have transformed into more effective and joyful communicators, reaching a deeper level of audience connection than they ever thought possible.In addition to teaching, Don can be found on the trade show floor, where he writes and delivers presentations for companies including Adobe, Cisco, and Medtronic. On the screen, Don has written and directed hundreds of hours of nonfiction television for shows including House Hunters, dollars40 a Day with Rachael Ray, and Roker on the Road.Before teaching others to confidently take the spotlight, Don toured internationally as a theatrical Clown for contemporary circus company Spiegelworld and performed briefly with the Blue Man Group and he is listed in the Cirque du Soleil performer database. He is a founding member of the award-winning sketch and clown groups DJ Faucet and the Innocents. His troupes have received awards, including the Improv Olympic Del Close Award for Best Sketch Comedy Troupe and the Hollywood Fringe Award for Best Physical Theater, and Don won the 2017 Toastmasters International District One Tall Tales Speech Championship.Don graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Communications from Boston University. He holds certifications in Design Thinking, Applied Improvisation, and Instructional Design. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and when he's not helping speakers engage with their audiences more deeply, he can be found hiking through the redwoods. You can connect with Don at www.doncolliver.com.

Sommaire:
Don Colliver has spent over twenty-five years figuring out what actually happens in the moment when a room full of people decides to trust a speaker, and then teaching that to everyone from nervous first-timers to seasoned executives.He's trained thousands of Google employees in communication and meeting facilitation, keynoted for 5,000 Toastmasters in the Bahamas, and built and delivered presentations on trade show floors for companies including Adobe, Cisco, and Medtronic. On the screen, he's written and directed nonfiction TV for shows including House Hunters, $40 a Day with Rachael Ray, and Roker on the Road.Before any of that, Don toured internationally as a theatrical Clown for contemporary circus company Spiegelworld, performed briefly with the Blue Man Group, and is listed in the Cirque du Soleil performer database. He's a founding member of the award-winning sketch and clown groups DJ Faucet and the Innocents, whose work has won the Improv Olympic Del Close Award for Best Sketch Comedy Troupe and the Hollywood Fringe Award for Best Physical Theater. In 2017, he won the Toastmasters International District One Tall Tales Speech Championship.Don graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Communications from Boston University and holds certifications in Design Thinking, Applied Improvisation, and Instructional Design. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner and their two cats, and when he's not helping people find their own version of Clown Presence, he's probably hiking through the redwoods or playing an endless game of D&D....