I wish to thank the following people for providing much of the material and inspiration my work is based upon:

Thanks to my teacher Jerry Weissman, presentation master and author of the great book, "Presenting to Win: The art of Telling Your Story" for the incredible presentation skills he has tought me that I have been able to forward on to my clients.

Thanks to my friend, Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles® and author of the wonderful book; "Be Heard Now", for his great pioneering work in the field of public
speaking and his generous spirit.

Thanks to my freind John Eggen, publisher of Mission Publishing for being a co-conspirotor helping leaders achieve new levels of mastery in their lives and in their professions. You have certainly helped me.

Thanks to Mike Bown and Tom Carroll of International Semitech who are my favorite lunch pals and the best people to brainstorm that you could ever hope for.

Thanks to Gene Zelazny, presentation guru at
Mckinsey and Company, author of the authoritative
books on presentations, 'Say it With Presentations' and
'Say it With Charts' for his wonderful generosity,
direction, encouragement and unique sense of humor.

Thanks to Barbara Minto for her innovative work, The
Minto Pyramid Principle, to Linda Long-Fletcher of the
Atlanta Communication Group, and to the philosopher,
Aristotle, for providing the theory and application by
which we organize ideas so powerfully.

Thanks to Robert Dilts, Judith Delozier and Michael
Colgrass for providing NLP principles of communication
and state management.

And thanks to all the present and past clients who have
taught me so much about what it takes to survive and to thrive!

Alan Steinborn, All Rights Reserved, 2004