2024 Book Club Details
The Guild’s book club offers you an opportunity to learn and network with your peers from the comfort of your home. Read and analyze the best sellers in our industry and discover new and better ways to present your material.
How does it work?
The Presentation Guild Book Club reads four books per year, one book each quarter, providing three book club sessions per book. In the first Book Club Chat session, we will discuss the first half of the book; in the second session, we will discuss the second half of the book. The third session is an Author Chat, where we get a chance to meet with the author of the book, ask questions, and discuss the topics of the book.
How do I participate?
You don’t have to have read the book to participate in either the Book Club Chats or the Author Chat. The Presentation Guild Book Club is led by a Book Club Leader, preparing the sessions and the Author Chat.
Q1 2024
Engaging Virtual Meetings by John Chen
Virtual meetings and presentations are here to stay. Let's find strategies and practical tips for bringing teams together when presenting as we prepare for the new year. John Chen has been meeting virtually for over 35 years and is a recognized leader in engaging virtual meetings.
His book, Engaging Virtual Meetings, offers ways to ways to create team cohesion, promote engagement, and increase virtual participation.
Q2 2024
Think Faster, Talk Smarter by Matt Abrahams
In Think Faster, Talk Smarter, Stanford lecturer, podcast host, and communication expert Matt Abrahams provides tangible, actionable skills to help even the most anxious of speakers succeed when speaking spontaneously. Abrahams provides strategies for managing anxiety, responding to the mood of the room, and making content concise, relevant, compelling, and memorable.
Drawing on stories from his clients and students, he provides best practices for handling various impromptu speaking tasks, including Q&A sessions, job interviews, feedback, small talk, faux pas, and persuasion.
Q3 2024
Speaking Story by Sally Z
Sally Z is an award-winning professional speaker with 25+ years of presentation experience and a master's degree in persuasion. She coaches high-potential dreamers from their first gig to their high-paying and world-changing keynote. Her clients range from small business owners and creative entrepreneurs to leaders at Fortune 500 corporations like Viacom, Paramount, and more.
With her signature enthusiasm―and you guessed it, entertaining storytelling―Sally Z shares the tools and mindset shifts that make speaking feel not just approachable, but achievable.
Q4 2024
Effective Data Visualizations by Stephanie Evergreen
Effective Data Visualization shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate their data findings. This comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints—supported by both research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world—for conveying data in an impactful way.
Delivered in Evergreen’s humorous and approachable style, the book covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options, how to determine which one most appropriately fits specific data stories, and easy steps for building the chosen graph in Excel.
