Larry has ben cited in The Information Please Business Almanac and Sourcebook and the book What to Say When…You’re Dying on the Platform as one of top speech coaches in the US.
His Website, www.tracy-presentation.com, has been in the number one position on Google since September 2004 for “Persuasive Presentations.”
His speech Taming Hostile Audiences: Persuading Those Who Would Rather Jeer than Cheer was published in the March 1, 2005 issue of Vital Speeches ofthe Day, along with speeches by President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan. It was then published as the centerpiece of the country’s leading publication on public speaking training, American Speaker.
His book, The Shortcut to Persuasive Presentations (which participants in his workshops receive) is the textbook for academic year 2006-7 for the Oral Presentations course at The Center for Leadership Education at Johns Hopkins University.
He is a retired Army colonel, and managed/trained the Defense Intelligence Agency Presentations team, responsible for daily intelligence briefings to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense and other Defense Department executives.
In a subsequent assignment to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), he was “briefer of choice” to speak on Latin American policy matters for OSD at public gatherings.
Requested by name by the State Department to be detailed to the Department to speak and debate throughout the country on controversial security/foreign policy issues. Participated in almost 400 presentations, panels and debates before demanding audiences.
President Ronald Reagan described him as “An extraordinarily effective speaker.”
His superior at the State Department called him “The standard to match in public oratory.”
During 2006, he conducted five seminars for over 400 government managers for the Federal Consulting Group (FCG) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. These seminars received the highest evaluations in the history of the FCG.
He was selected by Ragan Communications of Chicago to present at its November 2006 “Government Communicators Conference” in Washington D.C. on the subject “Telling the Government’s Story to Those Who Don’t Want to Listen: The Gentle Art of Persuasion for Government Communicators.” Due to the high evaluations he received, Ragan Communications has requested him to speak again at the July 2007 Conference.
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