Confident Public Speaking for Entrepreneurs
When:
Thursday, Feb 09, 2023 12:00p -
2:00p
Thursday, Feb 09, 2023 12:00p -
2:00p
Where:
Boston Public Library - Central
700 700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Business & Professional, Classes, Good for Groups, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/63bedbc82728c53700e0d42e
Whether you're talking to a customer, potential investor, business partner, or podcast host, your ability to communicate with confidence, authenticity, and authority about your company and yourself is crucial for success. This two-hour highly interactive workshop will show you how to:
- Manage distracting nerves
- Choose intentions and body language that boost your confidence and presence
- Engage your audience
- Rebound back to confidence when you're having a challenging day
- Let go of monotone and filler words like "ummmmm" and "you know"
- Craft and tell a memorable story
and more!
Amanda Hennessey is the author of Your Guide to Public Speaking, the Founder of Boston Public Speaking, San Diego Public Speaking, and the Co-Founder of Leap Media Training and Boston Acting Classes. She loves helping innovators speak with power and ease so they can change the rooms or zooms they are in without self-doubt or losing precious sleep.
Through customized corporate workshops and one-on-one coaching, Amanda helps her clients experience public speaking as an adventure with exciting risks, discoveries, and massive rewards rather than as a horror movie with terror, hiding, and dread.
She has coached a wide variety of individuals who are making waves in their industries – entrepreneurs, scientists, executives, activists, lawyers, artists, a top NYC dog trainer, and also a mountaineer who completed the Explorer’s Grand Slam. Amanda coaches members of the cast of Cook's Country & America's Test Kitchen on PBS. She also has a client who has appeared on The Today Show several times.
Amanda has led public speaking workshops at numerous organizations including UBS, Boston Children’s Hospital, MIT, and other companies and non-profits. She is also the host of the Building Confidence Podcast in which she interviews guests from a variety of backgrounds and digs deep into this juicy topic of empowerment. She received her MFA at the Actors Studio Drama School, and has acted in numerous films, plays, and commercials. Learn more about her at www.bostonpublicspeaking.com.
