Talk Like Ted: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

Carmine Gallo is a respected communications coach, speaker, journalist, and author. He published Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds in 2014, and it earned him a place on the Wall Street Journal’s bestseller list. This book builds on his previous writing about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Gallo’s first book on Jobs was The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience (2009). The book delves into the techniques employed by Jobs in his presentation and dissects the elements that made him such a successful communicator. It became a Wall Street Journal bestselling book and established Gallo as an authority on effective presentation skills. He followed with the Axiom Award–winning The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs (2011) and The Apple Experience (2012). Following Talk Like TED, Gallo also published The Storyteller’s Secret (2016), Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (2018), and The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman (2022).

Gallo was born in 1965 in San Jose, California, to Italian immigrant parents. His father worked for an early Silicon Valley tech company called Varian Associates. In 1988, Gallo received a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MS in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1989.