Technically Speaking: A Guide to Communicating Complex Information

Offers scientific and technical professionals insight into the process of conveying technical and other types of information to professional and lay audiences. Describes a 10-step approach to the process of researching, organizing, and presenting complex information, with chapters on analyzing an audience, creating low-and high-tech visuals, using humor, video conferencing, and communicating to international audiences. Includes chapter overviews, key concepts, checklists, worksheets, and exercises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Jan D'Arcy has been a presentation skills coach to thousands of high tech personnel, scientists, engineers, world leaders, business CEO's, life science executives, judges, and educators over the past thirty years. Her clients include NASA, Microsoft, Pacific Northwest Labs, IEEE, Society of Women Engineers, IBM, Amgen, T-Mobile, Honeywell, Starbucks, Boeing, AT&T, Abbot Labs, Wizards of the Coast, EPA, John Deere, Prologis, URS Greiner and the US Government. Jan was a consultant to the Management Program at the University of Washington for five years and has been a guest instructor for the school's MBA and Executive MBA programs. She has also taught at Pacific Lutheran University and University of Hawaii, as well as at Bellevue and Cascadia Community Colleges. She has built a reputation for achieving exceptional results. Formerly fearful clients report their "confidence has gone through the roof," whether making high-stakes presentations for million-dollar proposals, speaking at Radio City Music Hall, or acing a critical one-on-one job interview.

As an actress, Jan has worked with world-renowned directors and filmmakers including David Lynch, Gore Verbinski, and Frank Marshall. She flew 14,000 feet by helicopter to the top of a mountain shooting the film Alive, starred in Better Off Dead, and was brutally murdered in Countdown. She had a recurring role in the Emmy-nominated TV series Twin Peaks. She has appeared in over 1000 radio and TV commercials, and her radio program, Communications Corner, was syndicated across the U.S. Jan uses practical, dynamic techniques from her extensive theatre, film, radio and television background to help her clients acquire stage presence and self-confidence. She brings experience and techniques from these two careers to her readers in Technically Speaking.

For information about individual or group coaching, email her at jan@jdarcy.com.

* An Executive Speech Coach to prominent individuals
* A Strategic Communications Coach for internal/external communications
* An Advisor to government agencies
* A best-selling Author
* And a Specialist in Managing Fears associated with public speaking.