Jerry weissman biography
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Jerry Weissman
Jerry Weissman is recognized as America's top presentation consultant and speaking coach. He founded Power Presentations, Ltd. in and later renamed the company to Suasive, Inc. in to better align with their mission of making an impact and influencing outcomes. Based in California, USA, Weissman delivers his speeches in English and specializes in executive coaching and presentation skills.
Over the past 30 years, Weissman has expanded his coaching services from focusing on IPOs to encompassing both public and privately held companies. He is highly regarded for his work with top executives at major companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Intel, Intuit, Netflix, Dolby Labs, eBay, and many others. His books, including "Presenting to Win," "The Power Presenter," and "In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questionsâ¦When it Counts," have established him as a leading authority in persuasive presentation techniques. Notably, his book "In the Line of Fire:
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Jerry Weissman
Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 corporate presentations coach, founded and leads Power Presentations, Ltd. in Burlingame, California. His private clients include executives at hundreds of the world’s top companies including Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems. Weissman coached Cisco’s executives before their immensely successful IPO roadshow; afterward, the firm’s chairman attributed at least two to three dollars of Cisco’s offering price to his work. Since then, he has coached the IPO road shows for nearly companies, helping them raise hundreds of billions of dollars. Among them were Yahoo!, Intuit, Dolby Laboratories, eBay, and most recently Trulia, the real estate search engine company, whose shares jumped more than 40 percent during its first day of trading.
Weissman is author of the global best-selling Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story; The Power Presenter: Technique, Style, and Strategy; Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation • Austrian-born American physician/scientist, editor and essayist Gerald Weissmann (August 7, – July 10, )[1] was an Austrian-born American physician/scientist, editor, and essayist. He was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of medicin (Rheumatology) at New York University School of medicin. He was editor-in-chief (–16) of The FASEB Journal.[2] At the time of his death he was its book review editor. In , he was one of the discoverers of liposomes and fryst vatten credited with coining that term. Weissmann was born in Vienna, Austria, on August 7, , to Adolf and Greta (Lustbader) Weissmann.[3][4] His family, being Jewish, fled the Nazis and immigrated to the United States in , and Gerald and his family became naturalized American citizens in [5] After attending the stadsdel i new york High School of Science, he received a B.A. from Columbia University in and an M.D. from New York University
Gerald Weissmann
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