Improv & Public Speaking workshops Jan 8 & 15

FREE public speaking workshop by my friend Zach Williams - these are really excellent and you should go even if public speaking makes you nervous.

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January 8th, 2013 at 7:00pm: Acting Improv for Business Professionals

Class Description: Improv is a skill that helps students become more confident and engaged public speakers.  Students will also benefit from exercises that encourage creativity and stronger teamwork skills.  The class will be a combination of lecture and group exercises designed for beginners

Class Date/Time: Tuesday, 1/8 at 7pm-9pm

Class Cost: Free!  Space limited, so RSVP!

Class Location: Joria Productions, 260 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, Studio 2, between 7th & 8th Avenue

Class Instructor: Zach Williams, MBA, Public Speaking Coach

Email: zach AT artofpresentationconsulting DOT com 

Phone: (310) 701-3414

Website: www.artofpresentationconsulting.com

January 15th at 2:30pm: Public Speaking Basics Class

Class Description: The class will be a combination of lecture, group exercises, and individual coaching.  Class material will cover basics such as anxiety management, body language, eye contact, and audience connection

Class Date/Time: Tuesday, 1/15 at 2:30pm-4:30pm

Class Cost: Free!  Space limited, so RSVP!

Class Location: 36 Street Studio, 260 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, Room C, between 7th & 8th Avenue

Class Instructor: Zach Williams, MBA, Public Speaking Coach

Email: zach AT artofpresentationconsulting DOT com

Phone: (310) 701-3414

Website: www.artofpresentationconsulting.com

Event Organizers needed for Green Breakfast Club NYC, London, & Nairobi

Any environmentally conscious event organizers want to take a leadership role in NYC, London, or Nairobi?  See below!

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My friend Danielle Lanyard, an expert in the "Green Movement", is scaling her startup, Green Breakfast Club, and needs your help. She's looking for support for their expansion to London and Nairobi, and to find a lead organizer for the Green Breakfast Club events in New York City.  (Contact: danielle AT greenbreakfastclub [dotcom])

About Green Breakfast Club:
Green Breakfast Club is a peer to peer resource exchange that meets for monthly networking events to grow local green business community through resource sharing. The event format includes a TEDx-style keynote speaker’s success and failure story & a one hour resource exchange where each attendee presents short ‘gives’ and ‘asks’ to share resources. This event meshes innovators in social and green enterprise, technology, nonprofit, startup, the financial sector and Corporate Social Responsibility.

From Danielle:
"Green Breakfast Club is expanding to London, Nairobi, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Copenhagen. We launched by bootstrapping in NYC in June of 2011 and piloted for 1 year, aimed to get people to share resources, to help them accelerate their ventures, and to help all grow their local green business community." All this time, I've been trying to develop a unique technology to enable members to share resources with eachother, and for each city and its members to connect, hence London and Nairobi being the first 2 choices. London we are at Google Campus, Nairobi at iHub. Copenhagen at the Hub.

New York is where it all began, and now Foundation Center is the anchor partner for all 2013 events. The speaker lineup for 2013 is incredible: Andrew Winston on January 11th, Tonya Surman on February 8th, Shane McQuaid of Voltaic Systems on March 8th, Dan Apfel of Responsible Endowments Coalition on April 12th, and many more soon to be announced.  As Danielle expands the concepts globally and travels around the world like a Johnny Appleseed spreading green entrepreneurship, she needs one incredible individual to run the GBC NYC events.  As so much has already been taken care of with their partner venue, speaker roster booked, and strong alliance of partners and sponsors, this is an incredible opportunity for the right person to volunteer to be present at these events and work with the growing Green Breakfast Club as they help ally community and build capacity in the Green Entrepreneurship Ecosystem.  Past volunteers have gone on to secure incredible jobs, launch their own green events, and get connected the most foremost leaders in the Green Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing space."

LINKS:
    http://www.greenbreakfastclub.com/
    http://www.greenbreakfastclub.com/cities/new-york
    http://www.greenbreakfastclub.com/cities/gbc-london
    http://www.greenbreakfastclub.com/cities/gbc-nairobi
    http://www.daniellelanyard.com/

Dec 16 - volunteers needed for Times Square Art Square

Just heard about this and it sounds cool!  Volunteers are needed for this event.

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Times Square Art Square (TSAS) is looking for volunteers to assist them with an epic and exciting marathon fundraising event on Sunday, December 16th.

Called "Pledge a Sketch: An Artists for Art Square Skethathon," the event will bring together 100 local artists, each attempting to create 100 commissioned portraits in exchange for $10 donations. That could add up to $100,000 in a single day!

25% of all money raised will benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Emergency Relief Fund in support of artists impacted by Sandy. 

TSAS needs people to assist with check-in, orders, talent wrangling and energy boosting!

More information on the Sketchathon, including artist registration, can be found at http://artsquare.co/pledge/overview/. Volunteers can email [angela AT artsquare DOT co] to get involved.

Storytelling & Public Speaking

Zach Williams is a great speaking coach, who has experience in theater and in business. I highly recommend his classes if you want to be more confident in front of a boardroom or any crowd.  Check this out!

December 13th at 7pm: Storytelling Techniques Class

Class Description: The class will consist of lecture and group exercises designed to make students better public speakers by utilizing good storytelling techniques.  Class content will include discussions on why humans have always been intrigued by stories, basic elements of a story, and useful storytelling techniques.  The class exercises will help students present a business presentation as a story by finding the 'plot' of any presentation, portraying the characters in a more intriguing manner, and using the elements of suspense and conflict in a way that is appropriate for a professional presentation

 

Class Date/Time: Thursday, 12/13 at 7pm-9pm

Class Location: Joria Productions, 260 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, Studio 2, between 7th Ave. & 8th Ave.

Class Cost: Email for details

Class Instructor: Zach Williams, MBA, Public Speaking Coach

Email: zach (at artofpresentationconsulting dotcom)

Website: www.artofpresentationconsulting.com