Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Present! A Techie's Guide To Public Speaking
Poornima Vijayashanker & Karen Catlin · 2016
🎙 Narrated by Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin (co-authors, self-narrated)
76/100
👍 Worth It
Written and narrated by two working tech speakers, this one lands with real industry-specific examples, and reviewers specifically praised its clarity and production polish. It's aimed at technical professionals, so the framing may feel narrower if you're outside that world, but the substance and craft here are genuinely solid. Worth the listen, especially if you're in tech.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
▶ Listen to a sample
🎙 Narration: good Both co-authors narrate their own material; reader commentary praised the audiobook's editing/production quality, which bodes well for the listen.
🎧 Listen free with an Audible trial ↗ Find it on Audible ↗📚 In print ↗📱 On Kindle ↗ affiliate links · support the site, never the verdict
As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing78
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit75
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict76
Cross-pollinate