Biography

Dr. Nick Morgan
Nick is one of America’s top communication and speech coaches. He has been commissioned by Fortune 50 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents. He has worked widely with political and educational leaders. And he has helped design conferences and prepare keynote speeches around the world.

Nick’s methods, which are well-known for challenging conventional thinking, have been published worldwide. His acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action. Nick also served as editor of the Harvard Management Communication Letter from 1998 — 2003. Currently, Nick is a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

After earning his PhD. in literature and rhetoric, Nick spent a number of years teaching Shakespeare and Public Speaking at the University of Virginia and Princeton University. He first started writing speeches for Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb and went on to found his own communications consulting organization, Public Words, in 1997.

Nick attributes his success to his honest and direct approach that challenges even the most confident orators to rethink how they communicate.