Garr Reynolds

Garr Reynolds is the author and designer of the award-winning and international best-selling books Presentation Zen, Presentation Zen Design, and The Naked Presenter, which are available in 17 languages including Japanese. His latest DVD/book is called シンプルプレゼン, available only in Japan. A much sought-after speaker and trainer, he speaks worldwide for firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Hewlett Packard, and universities including Stanford, Oxford, Kyoto University, Keio, and many others. Say Media out of New York City named Garr one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Voices on the Internet" in 2011. A writer, designer, and musician, he is currently Associate Professor of Business and Communication at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka. He is a former Manager of Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple Inc. in Silicon Valley, and spent most of the ‘90s as a Corporate Trainer for Sumitomo Electric Industries, Inc. in Osaka. Garr lives in the Nara countryside with his wife, daughter, and two Siamese cats.