About Kevin

Kevin Ferguson trains managers, executives and other professionals on how to gain a competitive edge with powerful and engaging public speaking presentations.

He is the past president of Protoasties – an Advanced Toastmasters for Professionals Who Speak. He is also a former vice president of education for the L.E.B Toastmasters chapter, located at Stanford University.

Writing Background

Kevin Ferguson has been writing professionally as a journalist, speechwriter or business blogger since 1989. His first paid job in journalism was as a sports reporter for the San Mateo Times (now called the San Mateo County Times) in Northern California. He later worked as a radio news reporter for KLON 88.1 FM, a Los Angeles-based jazz station (now KJAZZ) with a four-times daily newscast.  Among other things at KLON, he covered the Sedale Threatt-era L.A. Lakers (that is – the post Magic Johnson era) and a budding Long Beach State baseball star named Jason Giambi (Oakland A’s first baseman and 2000 winner of the A.L. MVP award). Giambi moved on to the New York Yankees (as small market MVPs often do) and then ultimately became enshrined in the infamous Mitchell Report. It’s a fascinating read.

After Ferguson earned a broadcast journalism degree from Long Beach State, he worked as a TV news reporter/photographer for KMIR-TV 6, the NBC affiliate in Palm Springs, Calif. Breaking news in the Palm Springs/Palm Desert area was almost as thrilling as watching the Threatt-era Lakers. The Big Story P.S. newscasters hoped to cover in the mid 1990’s was a car crash involving the community’s favorite (part-time) residents: Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra.

In 1997, Ferguson abandoned the ambulance-chasing rat race of TV News and resumed his newspaper career in the quiet and wholesome community of Las Vegas, Nevada, where the gambling industry is referred to as “gaming.” It’s also the only town in America where its citizens would elect a former mob defense attorney (Oscar Goodman) mayor three times.

For five years, Ferguson reported on politics, “gaming,” technology and the occasional scam artist for the Las Vegas dailies (Sun & Review-Journal), the Business Press and the Henderson Home News.

In 2002, Ferguson moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he reported for the now defunct Silicon Valley Business Ink and freelanced for the San Jose Magazine. In 2003, Ferguson served as an aide to the press secretary on Gavin Newsom’s successful San Francisco mayoral campaign.

If you are hoping to read about Kevin Ferguson’s mixed martial arts fighting background, you are confusing him with the other Kevin Ferguson, who goes by the stage name of Kimbo Slice. It’s an easy mistake.