The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides

1. Naturalness and the Art of Presenting Naked

To express yourself as you are is the most important thing.

—Shunryu Suzuki

I had only been living in Japan a couple of months when I found myself sitting outside in a large and very hot Japanese bath surrounded by my naked coworkers. I was at an onsen (), or Japanese hot springs, along with everyone else from my office, as part of our company weekend retreat. The purpose of the trip was not work, but simply relaxation, dining, drinking, and a little fun with colleagues. By getting away from the formality ...