Public Speaking – The Career Game Changer

86r American Legion Highway, Dorchester MA

Description

What does it take to become a thought leader? To be seen as the expert or the authority in your field? What will it take to get that next promotion? Or a new job? Or a board seat? Often, nothing more than the willingness to speak up and share your thoughts and experiences in public. Employers have always valued the employee who speaks well. Public speaking is, and always will be, an important skill, and well worth developing. But speaker training itself is only part of the puzzle. Don’t know how to get started with your first speaking engagement? Join ALPFA Boston, in partnership with Innovation Women, Bobbie Carlton walks us through the five (5) C’s of public speaking and their benefits. All of us have heard that public speaking in business is a must, but like so many other things, we don’t know exactly what it means and how to do it. In this must-see presentation, Bobbie will help you discover: -Where to find public speaking opportunities -How to “Get the Gig” -Opportunities: who to watch? Meet Bobbie Founder, Innovation Women, Innovation Nights, Carlton PR & Marketing; Publisher/EIC, Lioness Magazine Bobbie Carlton, founder of Innovation Women, Innovation Nights and Carlton PR & Marketing, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. She speaks regularly on public speaking, especially for women, social media, building innovation communities, startups and product launches, and consults with small businesses and individuals on social networking, marketing and PR. Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global PR at enterprise software companies PTC and Cognos (now part of IBM). In 2006 she switched gears, joining a startup focused on providing positive values for preteen girls through a social network and book series. Innovation Women is an online speakers' bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women designed to help event managers gender-balance their speaker slates. Mass Innovation Nights is a social media powered new product showcase and networking event. MIN has launched almost 1500 new products which have collectively received more than $3 billion in funding. In 2010 she was named one of the “Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community”, and in 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award. In 2015 she was named a Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch. PR News called her a PR Gamechanger in 2017. And, she was one of BostInno's 50 on Fire in 2018 and 2020. Here is Bobbie’s public Innovation Women profile . http://boston.alpfa.org/ [email protected]