Friday
Room 4 - Level 4
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC±00)
Workshop (60 min)
Part 2/2: Speak Up! and Make Your Content Land
Do you have great ideas, but don’t know how to articulate and “sell” them? Do you aspire to be a speaker, but lack the confidence to put yourself out there? Whether you are casually speaking to your team, sharing an idea with the CEO in the elevator, pitching to a prospective client, or addressing an audience of a hundred people or more, speaking with confidence and communicating with impact are the skills you need.
This engaging, experiential workshop will help you sharpen your presentation skills to become an adept communicator. You'll learn to better understand what your audience (of one or many) needs so you can best articulate your point and land your content. You'll also learn to recognize, own, and express your passionate expertise, and start to shift public speaking from something to be dreaded into an enjoyable experience.
Participants will learn:
- Tips for banishing your Inner Critic to manage the fears that trip you up and hold you back
- How to distill your communication into the essential messages
- Connecting with the audience through storytelling
- Matching body language and voice tonality to your message and audience
- Active listening
- Preparing for and dealing with the unexpected moments with ease
Denise Jacobs
Denise Jacobs’ expertise lies at the intersection of creativity, confidence, and achievement. Denise keynotes conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide giving a Creative Dose™ – an injection of inspiration, relevant content, and immediately applicable tools to help people do their best work.
Through her company The Creative Dose, her workshops, masterclasses, and coaching help individuals and teams to unblock creativity, cultivate collaboration, and ignite innovation. Through working with Denise, employees become engaged contributors, synergistic collaborators, and authentic leaders.
Denise has presented at events and organizations worldwide such as Google, Facebook, Automattic, GitHub, FastWeb.It, the BBC, South By Southwest Interactive, Brand Minds, Forbes8, Mind The Product, The Agile Alliance, NDC Conferences, UX Week, The Society for Technical Communications, various chapters of The American Marketing Association, Creative Mornings, The Future of Storytelling, The Future of Web Design, Inbound, and TEDxRheinMain.
Denise is the author of Banish Your Inner Critic, the premier handbook on silencing self-doubt to unleash creativity and do your best work. A Web Design & Development industry veteran, Denise is also the author of The CSS Detective Guide, the principal book on troubleshooting CSS code, and is co-author to the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web, as well as the book InterAct with Web Standards: A holistic guide to web design.
Denise is a LinkedIn Learning course instructor, with 7 popular courses that have a combined total of over 400,000 learners and counting. She has also been a guest lecturer in courses at Stanford University‘s Design Program and the d.school, as well as an instructor for the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.