If you’ve got a presentation to give at work or school — or are perhaps getting ready to speak at a TEDx event? — we recommend these talks to help get you pumped up.

There's no single formula for a great talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common. TED curator Chris Anderson shares this secret -- along with four ways to make it work for you. Do you have what it takes to share an idea worth spreading?

Megan Washington is one of Australia's premier singer/songwriters. And, since childhood, she has had a stutter. In this bold and personal talk, she reveals how she copes with this speech impediment—from avoiding the letter combination “st” to tricking her brain by changing her words at the last minute to, yes, singing the things she has to say r...

For anyone who has ever been inspired by a TED Talk… this is an insider’s guide to creating talks that are unforgettable.

A list of the talks mentioned in TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking. Chris Anderson's comments on each talk (in the grey italics) indicate why they were included in the book. Use the book index for more info.

Stressed about an upcoming presentation? These talks are full of helpful tips on how to get up in front of an audience and make a lasting impression.

Fear lives in the mind. So, how do we get it out of our heads? Follow in the footsteps of these speakers who have faced some of their deepest fears with strength and grace.

From work and happiness, to love and success (and everything else in between), these talks offer insights on some of life's biggest secrets.

A round-up of fascinating TED speakers who have founded some of the most amazing companies.

TED curator Chris Anderson's guide to creating talks that are unforgettable.  A great TED Talk is proof that a carefully crafted short presentation can unlock empathy, stir excitement, spread knowledge and promote a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview. Done right, a talk is more powe...

Over and over, you keep asking us: What's the best way to give a TED Talk? It’s not just that you’re interested in sharing your ideas at a TED or local TEDx event. Short presentations have become a bread-and-butter staple at schools and offices around the world, and you want more guidance on how to give them well. And so, our curator Chri...

The members of the TED community have been very busy this week. Below, news briefs on what a few have been up to: Who’ll pay for the Ebola vaccine? To end the Ebola epidemic, we need a vaccine -- and a lot of it, fast. The challenge for drugmakers? That’s not a profitable business. Seth Berkley is in talks with GlaxoSmithKline and others to...

About this event: Many people have a fear of public speaking or they feel insecure about being in front of other people. However, knowing how to present yourself correctly and “selling” yourself and your ideas is a must-have skill nowadays. Evidence of that can be detected in every context, both in your professional and in your private life: from speaking about y...

About this event: The first ever TEDx event at RCHK seeks to cultivate a common interest for public speaking. The event strives to deliver an influential message in which the sharing of ideas through voice and visual communication is an engaging, prosperous and creative way to educate and inform each other. Knowledge is a vast ocean that exists to perpetually exp...

TED@UPS is a multi-year collaboration, with touch points across the TED ecosystem. The partnership with UPS includes an exchange of expertise at TED conferences, organizational professional development in leadership and public speaking, video content to amplify UPS's untapped ideas and features a TED-curated banner event with diverse group of sp...

TED@IBM is a multi-year collaboration, with touch points across the TED ecosystem. The partnership with IBM includes master classes and workshops to exchange expertise at TED conferences, organizational professional development in leadership and public speaking, video content to amplify IBM's untapped ideas and features a TED-curated banner even...

About this event: What’s your biggest fear? For some it’s spiders. For others it’s public speaking. For a vast majority of us, it’s the fear of failure. TEDxSDSU will explore this uncomfortable topic of fear through the inspiring and compelling stories of our speakers. This event seeks to dissect the science of fear and alter the way the audience views and handle...

Glossophobia, or the fear of public speaking, is one of our best-known fears. Depending on who you ask or what study you consult, more people fear public speaking than death, snakes, heights and just about anything else. We’re very familiar with this fear at TED -- and we have a not-so-hidden secret approach to overcoming it: coaching. Wit...

About this event: TEDxVictoriaSalon: Perspectives, the newest addition to the TEDxVictoriaSalon series has strived to do something new through the inclusion of facilitated conversation after each session of talks. Through this attendees not only had the opportunity to hear the perspectives of the speakers, but those of their fellow guests. This inspired many conv...

About this event: TEDxYouth@LambertHS is the first ever TEDx event in Forsyth County! We invite people from the community and abroad to come listen to our amazing speakers presenting on March 17th, 2017. This event is hosted by the TEDEd Club at Lambert High School. The Ted-Ed club at Lambert aims to provide a platform for students to connect and share ideas rega...

About this event: TEDxPitsmoor is about local Pitsmoor people, unused to public speaking, who want to say something that is interesting or entertaining, or both (although an interesting speaker who wants to come and join us from another part of Sheffield would also be welcome). We would really feel like we have succeeded if, in the process, speakers gain new skil...

At TED2012, Susan Cain asked us to stop the madness. That is: the group work madness. At offices and schools around the globe, the desire for collaboration has led to an onslaught of open floor plans and group projects where individuals aren’t given much space to think on their own. And this is a big problem, Cain explained, because a third to h...

About this talk: Transactions have always involved middlemen. They establish trust—but also bring extra cost, complexity, and potential for error. Blockchain provides a secure, fast, transparent, and error-free digital record of the history of transactions, and so has the potential to replace many intermediaries. Will it?

A blue whale scientist. A mobile finance entrepreneur. A DIY neuroscientist. A comedian. A sound artist. This year’s class of TED Fellows brings together trailblazers in a wide variety of fields from locations all around the globe. The TED Fellows program is getting ready to choose its new class -- so they’re looking for 20 unusual thinkers at w...

Get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to TEDSummit inside our Facebook Live Studio. Join some of your favorite TED speakers for conversational interviews -- and you can ask them your questions in the comments. See everything on TED's Facebook page as it happens: Here's the schedule: Sunday, June 26 4pm Eastern: TED speaker coaches s...

The honor of kicking off the evening of TED Full Spectrum auditions fell to Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and deputy project scientist for operations for the James Webb Space Telescope (the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope). Together with fellow NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn, she pu...

Barefoot Foodie onstage at TEDxBGSU. Photo: Enoch Wu If your New Year's resolution is to give a TEDx talk yourself -- or to silence your inner monologue that thinks "I can't do public speaking" -- read a few of these stories, written by people who got up on the TEDx stage this year. They're brave, prepared, and honest about what it takes to...

From the TED Fellows blog: Taking off full force on the first day of their pre-conference, TED2012 Fellows were treated to a cluster of workshops offering tools on how best to get attention and support for their extraordinary work -- from the profits and pitfalls of public speaking to how to run an exciting crowd-sourcing campaign. Kickst...

TED curator Chris Anderson discusses the transformative power of speaking to an audience from the heart. You’re nervous, right? Stepping out onto a public stage and having hundreds of pairs of eyes turned your way is terrifying. You dread having to stand up in a company meeting and present your project. What if you get nervous and stumble ov...

One thing can strike fear into the heart of the fiercest warrior, the most powerful CEO and the smartest person in any given room: having to speak in public. The thought of it makes the palms sweat, the heart beat faster and the limbs start to shake. An estimated 75% of people have a fear of speaking in public, and it's something that nearly ...