• A senior level leadership position who manages a team/department within an organization or is directly involved with sales or marketing.
• An Entrepreneur, Business Owner, President, or C-Suite level role of a company.
• Employed by a post-secondary education institution whose assignment is President (or equivalent), Business School Dean or Department Chair, Professors principally devoted to teaching sales and/or marketing or others whose principle assignments are in the management of student recruiting or public affairs.

Everything you do is a presentation. This includes emails, phone calls, Zoom calls, and even conversations.
Make the most of your presentation:

• If you don’t have original content, then you need to have original style.
• Think about what will get people’s attention and hold it.
• Know your content and speak from the heart.
• Learn how to become natural in an unnatural environment.
• You don’t need to use PowerPoint but instead know how to connect to your audience.
• Talk to the attendees before hand to learn about them. This gives you the opportunity to tailor the presentation to the audience in real time.
• Take questions throughout the presentation and not just at the end.
• Walk around and interact with the audience. By doing this, people are joining you instead of you being the “show”.
• Have at least one signature story that is 2-3 minutes and is true, in first person, unique, and has a positive ending.
• If you get pushback from the audience deal with it right away because more often than not more than one person feels that way.
• Protect your close time and ensure you have a call to action. The more specific, the better.

• Trifold your notes and put them in your pocket. Ask the audience to get a pen and while they are doing that you can put your notes on the podium. The audience will assume you are not using notes.
• Over rehearse the beginning of your presentation so that you can get in to your flow.
• People don’t want bullet points, they want success stories.
• Offer a preview and establish expectations of the presentation right away.
• Have people smile and do something physical (raise hand, write something down) right away.
• When on Zoom, look into the camera to connect with the audience.
• It is ok to ask for applause. “Did you enjoy my presentation?”

  Thank you to our meeting sponsor Wireless World.

We are looking for sponsors for the upcoming 2021-22 calendar year. There are new options for how you can be a part of bringing in talented, quality speakers each month. If you are interested in learning more about sponsorship opportunities, contact Mindy Kroll or Sheila Hoff.