Richard Freishtat

Richard Freishtat serves as Senior Consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley, where he designs and delivers a full range of enrichment initiatives and consultation services to the 2000+ faculty across campus. In addition to teaching in the Executive Education program at Berkeley, he has consulted with over 150 business professionals on their presentation and persuasion skills. Having overcome a stutter and immense fear of speaking in public, he has a particular passion for working with professionals who seek to address some of the same impediments to their success. Richard is currently working on a book that will provide high-potential business professionals, who are challenged by similar obstacles, both relevant and easily implemented tools, techniques, and frames of mind for effectively conveying their message to garner intended results.

Richard holds a Ph.D. in Education from Arizona State University, and an M.A. in Rhetoric and Public Address and a B.A. in Speech Communications from Pennsylvania State University. Across his 15+ years of teaching experience, Richard has taught more than 5,000 students at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels in course topics ranging from Oral Communication to Persuasion, and Interpersonal Communication to Small Group Communication. He has also published and presented across the globe on the topics of teaching, pedagogy, and innovation in learning.