Bob Garner

Bob Garner built a career as a successful entrepreneur before discovering that the skill behind every sale he had ever made was communication, specifically the ability to connect with another human being quickly, credibly, and memorably. He has since spent decades studying and teaching that skill to Fortune 1000 and Global 100 audiences in more than fifteen countries, sharing stages with former U.S. presidents and C-suite executives along the way.

The Science and Art of Connection

Garner’s keynotes combine research in communication and persuasion with the practical, story-driven delivery of someone who has sold at the highest levels. His presentations address vocal presence, authentic engagement, the psychology of trust, and the specific behaviors that determine whether an audience hears you or just listens politely. He is known for being both genuinely funny and genuinely useful, which is a combination that meeting planners spend years trying to find.

A Practitioner’s Perspective

What distinguishes Garner from academic communication experts is that everything he teaches he has personally used to build businesses and close deals. He has helped clients sell tens of millions of dollars in products and services and has coached entrepreneurs at every stage of growth. His rags-to-riches business background gives his communication content a credibility that pure presentation coaches rarely match.

Bob Garner keynotes are booked for events focused on communication, presentation skills, influence and persuasion, sales effectiveness, and building the authentic human connection that drives trust and results in business relationships.

What does Bob Garner speak about?

Bob Garner speaks on communication and the power of voice, drawing on a legendary career as a voice actor to show audiences how vocal delivery shapes credibility, authority, and persuasion. His keynotes give presenters and leaders immediately practical tools for commanding a room.

What is Bob Garner’s background?

Garner is a legendary voice actor and communication expert widely recognized for his work on vocal technique and presentation skills.

Who books Bob Garner to speak?

Meeting planners book Bob Garner for communication and leadership conferences, sales events, and corporate audiences focused on presentation skills.

C.U.T. Through the Chaos – How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Scores of books and countless articles, as well as leading universities and business schools, consistently exclaim that it’s critical for employees of all levels to think like entrepreneurs. The reason is because the entrepreneur mindset is one that focuses on dedication, creativity, productivity, and profitability, as well as the need to work more effectively with others, cut costs and embrace change.

Equally important, the fostering of an entrepreneurial mindset throughout an organization – while staying within the boundaries of that company – bolsters the understanding that each employee is responsible for his/her own success, which will ultimately be reflected in the overall growth and success of the company.

However, what hinders the entrepreneurial mindset is the individual mindset of each employee via negative responses to conditions, challenges, and changes that constantly take place in the work environment. These negative responses are emotions such as anger, apathy, fear, worry, stress, despair and disgust. These emotions impede creative thinking and problem solving, diminish teamwork and communication, and stifle productivity and profitability. The result is low morale, missed deadlines, unsolved problems, and poor service – to customers and fellow employees. In the end, both the employee and the bottom line suffer.

What Can I Do From This Point Forward? Dealing with Changes to My Job, Company and Industry

Changes to one’s job, company or industry creates challenges that can sometimes be overwhelming. Due to mergers and acquisitions, new corporate rules, and/or industry/government regulations, many employees feel lost as to how they fit in to the new corporate structure, as well as insecurity as to what may happen next.

What Bob offers are ways for your group to deal with these feelings and emotions – not by looking backwards or even too far ahead – but by dealing with their present challenges efficiently and correctly. Despite what has happened in the past (or even in the last hour), it’s all about looking at where you are – right now – and understanding what you need to do to move forward.

In this presentation, Bob shares usable information with your group on how to reevaluate changes to their jobs, company and industry and how to embrace those changes to increase performance and productivity, as opposed to fighting them; how to come to terms with and reduce the uncertainty of how and where to fit in with regard to recent mergers and acquisitions, and how to manage the anger, negativity, and pressure of dealing with new guidelines or stricter regulations. Bob also touches on the need to work more closely as a team across all departments or units, the importance of diminishing “mental obstacles” that stop people from excelling (worry, fear, and stress), and reinforces the understanding that each person is an important component of the company’s success.