The Way to Communicate: A practical and philosophical guide to building enlightened person-to-person communication skills in a time of expanding personal disconnection

Everything we do -- how we interact with people, how we stand, how we look, what we say, how we say it and how we listen -- communicates something about us at every moment. The Way to Communicate teaches how to tap into your core and build upon your inherent sense of humanity, empathy, and self-awareness to become a better communicator. From this philosophical foundation, The Way to Communicate then provides the mental, physical, and technical tools that enable you to improve your personal communication skills in any person-to-person situation, from a one-on-one conversation to a presentation for a packed auditorium.

Mike Harkins has thirty years of diverse communications and media experience, including communications coaching for many C-level executives. He went from artist and actor in the mid-'70s to a decade of concert and video production with music greats including Journey, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Jackson. His communications clients have included Kendall-Jackson wine, the USC Medical System, Schwinn, Gatorade, and Wells Fargo, and he has served as creative director, senior writer, and editor for a Northern California business magazine and several small press publishers. His commentary has aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and his book, The Way to Communicate, was published in October 2010 by Portsmouth Publishing. His fiction was included in the premier issue of Thrice Fiction magazine (www.thricefiction.com), and Move to Fire, his book detailing the true story of an attorney's fight against the country's most corrupt gun maker, will be available in summer 2015. He's currently co-writing the memoir of the woman who founded the country's first wild horse sanctuary.