Larry Tracy has been cited in The Information Please Business Almanac and the book What to Say When You’re Dying on the Platform as one of the top presentation skills trainers in the country. He is featured in the April 2007 MAXIM magazine in an article on “Boardroom Presentations” as one of the leading authorities on how to deliver such presentations.

His book, The Shortcut to Persuasive Presentations, published by Imprint Books, Charleston, SC, distills the techniques he teaches in his executive workshops, including how to conduct a Murder Board to ensure delivering winning presentations responsive to the needs of the audience. It is the primary text for Academic Year 2006-7 for the Oral Presentations Course taught at the Center for Leadership Education of Johns Hopkins University.

President Ronald Reagan described him as “An extraordinarily effective speaker.” At the time, he was an Army colonel assigned to the State Department, debating controversial foreign policy issues throughout the country before skeptical and frequently hostile audiences. He formerly served as Chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Presentations Branch, the Pentagon’s top briefing team, responsible for daily intelligence presentations to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, other Defense Department officials and Congressional staffs.

His photo was the cover of the July 2005 issue of Douglas Publication’s American Speaker magazine, the leading publication on public speaking instruction in the country. His speech “Taming Hostile Audiences: Persuading Those Who Would Rather Jeer Than Cheer was the centerpiece of the issue, and described by editor Aram Bakshian, Jr. as “an outstanding speech…teaching a number of invaluable lessons in how to give a winning performance, even to the most hostile of audiences.” The speech had originally been delivered in January 2005 to the Washington, D.C Chapter of the National Speakers Association, and was subsequently published in the March 1, 2005 Vital Speeches of the Day, along with speeches by President Bush and then-Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan.

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