John has 40 years’ experience as a copywriter, scriptwriter, and a writer of corporate trainings and books. He is also a gifted speaker, speechwriter and presentation coach.
John comes from an advertising family and worked in the family business in New York City until he left for San Francisco to strike out on his own. He has written award-winning ads and corporate presentations for a companies in a broad variety of industries.
As a presentation coach, John has spent two decades helping people to be more comfortable, creative, clear connected, and charismatic.
As a child and young adult, John was plagued with a chronic stuttering problem. But he lived through the fear, conquered the problem, and even wrote a groundbreaking book about it. He has run workshops for the stuttering community in eight countries on three continents and maintains an active coaching business.
John is a long-term member of Toastmasters and served as president of an advanced Toastmaster club in Belmont, California. He’s been a keynote speaker in Atlanta, London and Perth, Australia. He is also an occasional speaker at service clubs in the Bay Area, and is available to speak at your next luncheon or dinner meeting.
