Joey Asher

Joey Asher is a professional communication and selling skills coach who has worked with executives, managers, and salespeople at hundreds of firms including Global Payments, The Weather Channel, UPS, Kimberly-Clark, Alston & Bird, PricewaterhouseCoopers, NDCHEALTH, AMVESCAP, Verizon, UPS, MCI, Scientific-Atlanta and Kurt Salmon Associates.

His first book, 'Even a Geek Can Speak: Low-Tech Presentation Skills For High-Tech People,' was published by Longstreet Press in 2001 and is in its second printing (2006) by Persuasive Speaker Press. 'Selling and Communication Skills for Lawyers' was released in 2005 by American Lawyer Media. 'How to Win a Pitch' released May 2009 by Persuasive Speaker Press. His latest book, "15 Minutes Including Q and A" will be released Sept. 2010.

Joey's background is both as an attorney and as a newspaper reporter. He worked as an adjunct professor of law at Emory University School of law and was an attorney at Troutman Sanders L.L.P in Atlanta. Prior to law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Gannett newspaper chain in Georgia and New York. Joey graduated from Cornell University and Emory University Law School.