A great idea can lose its power when the presentation feels stiff, forgettable, or disconnected from the audience.
Pitch Ninja teaches you how to use movement, body language, gestures, eye contact, and vocal energy to make your message more persuasive—whether you are pitching investors, selling to customers, leading a meeting, teaching a class, or speaking to a crowd.
At the heart of the book is Mike Moyer’s Super-Awesome Presentation Zone Program. This memorable framework divides your presentation space into three purposeful zones:
• The Intimacy Zone—build personal connections and earn trust
• The Excitement Zone—energize the audience and create enthusiasm
• The Information Zone—communicate facts, details, and supporting evidence
You’ll learn how to move between these zones, match your physical behavior to your message, design more effective visual aids, command the room, handle questions, and finish with a clear call to action.
Pitch Ninja is practical, visual, entertaining, and easy to apply. Its techniques work in conference rooms, classrooms, auditoriums, coffee shops, sales meetings, and virtually anywhere else you need to persuade someone.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Project confidence before saying a word
• Use gestures and facial expressions effectively
• Maintain stronger audience engagement
• Avoid common slide and presentation mistakes
• Match emotion, information, and movement
• Respond confidently during Q&A
• Turn an ordinary pitch into a persuasive performance
Perfect for entrepreneurs, salespeople, executives, teachers, students, consultants, and anyone who wants to communicate with greater confidence and impact.
“I’ve read a million sales books and taken almost a million classes in formal sales training, but your practical techniques make all those pale in comparison. It makes such sense!”
—Jackie Schwartz, Planet Einstein
Stop merely delivering information. Learn to command the room, connect with your audience, and present like a Pitch Ninja.
Mike Moyer discovered he was a Pitch Ninja when the teams he coached for business plan competitions seemed to always win and his clients closed bigger and bigger deals. A professional entrepreneur, he has started companies from scratch, joined startup companies, helped others start companies, raised millions of dollars of startup capital and helped sell startup companies. He has worked in a variety of industries ranging from vacuum cleaners to motorhome chassis to fine wine. Mike has an Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and an Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He teaches entrepreneurship at both universities. He lives in Lake Forest, Illinois, with his wife, three kids and the Lizard of Oz
