Author, Producer, Entrepreneur… Occasionally Entertaining.



ABOUT DAVID













David is the author of the best-selling book Do You Talk Funny? and the Founder of FunnyBizz Conference. His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Forbes, NPR, The Wall Street Journal,The Irish Independent, TV3, Newstalk, TED and The Irish Times.
“One of the best speaking coaches out there” according to Forbes.com, David’s program with over 34,000 students has been featured by Prezi as one of the best training courses for presenters. His book remains one of the highest rated in the world on the (usually not so wildly exciting) topic of public speaking and his content has been read by over one million people.
A sought after international business speaker, David also performs standup comedy and was the winner of the prestigious 43rd annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition. As a storyteller he finished runner up in NPR’s the Moth’s largest US story telling competition. As a lecturer he has taught at Stanford Graduate Business School, UC Berkeley, University of Oxford and University College Dublin.
A graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School he calls San Francisco home when immigration officials permit. David was named on the Irish America 100 List, which recognizes the accomplishments of the best and the brightest Irish-American and Irish-born leaders and the Top 30 Global Guru’s List for communications professionals.
A big fan of travel and languages David has lived and worked in 12 countries and visited 74 and counting.


A #1 BESTSELLER.
“THE BEST BOOK OF PUBLIC SPEAKING TECHNIQUES ON THE MARKET.”- BOOKS INC.
“THE BEST PUBLIC SPEAKING BOOK OF ALL TIME.” – BOOKAUTHORITY















In one year, David went from being deathly afraid of public speaking to hosting business conferences, regularly performing stand-up comedy, and winning storytelling competitions in front of packed houses. And he did it by learning from some of the best public speakers in the world: standup comics. In Do You Talk Funny? you will learn the key principles of standup comedy and how they can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make you funnier, more interesting, and better looking. (Or at least two of the three.)
10% of the author’s proceeds will go to Arash Bayatmakou via the Help Hope Live Foundation.
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Why have David speak or lead a workshop at your event? Energy, passion, knowledge, humour, and for those of you outside Ireland, a pretty cool accent.
—Aidan Cullen | Head of Marketing at Generali Worldwide
—Lloyed Lobo | Co-founder, Traction Conference Vancouver
—Roger Killen | Producer, TEDx StanleyPark Conference
HACKING PUBLIC SPEAKING













Join over 34,000 alumni who’ve hacked public speaking in the most entertaining way possible and help rid the world of boring presentations with this unique and practical 5 star reviewed online program.
FUNNYBIZZ CONFERENCE













UPPING HUMOR & ENGAGEMENT IN YOUR NEXT TALK













We have worked with and written for CEO’s, Presidential candidates, Saturday Night Live, Family Guy and a host of top TV shows.
We have written award winning speeches, won comedy awards, and provided the best bits of many a TED talk.
We include bestselling authors, award winning comedy writers and storytellers, TED speakers, viral content sensations and Ivy League graduates.
We are on stage way more than traditional public speaking coaches and we live or die by engagment.
We are Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour true masters of public speaking and we can make your talk better.
A lot better.
—Blake Irvin | Former CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy
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