| AGENDA ~ Day 1 |
8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration, networking and continental breakfast |
9:00am - 9:30am |
Welcome, introduction, logistics, and opening remarks with Lady and The Champs |
9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote: Patricia Fripp - "How to Design Your Masterful Keynote Speech" |
10:30am - 11:00am |
Networking break - Visit the resource tables |
11:00am -12:00noon |
Breakout session with 3 speakers:
Ed Tate - "How to Sell at the Back of the Room"
Darren LaCroix - "How to Start Getting Paid Next Week"
Craig Valentine - "Audience Involvement: The Inside Secrets" |
12:00noon - 1:00pm |
Networking lunch - Visit the resource tables |
1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Keynote: Ed Tate - TBA |
2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Networking break - Visit the resource tables |
2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Breakout sessions with 3 speakers:
Patricia Fripp - "Good to Great" (audience members get coached on openings and stories)
Darren LaCroix - "How to Start Getting Paid Next Week"
Craig Valentine - "Audience Involvement: The Inside Secrets" |
3:30pm - 3:40pm |
Move to general session room |
3:40pm - 5:00pm |
Lady and The Champs - "A Disaster... and What You Can Learn from My Pain"
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| AGENDA ~ Day 2 |
8:00am - 9:00am |
Networking and continental breakfast |
9:00am - 9:30am |
Welcome and opening remarks with Lady and The Champs - "Best Advice We Can Give" |
9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote: Craig Valentine - "Storytelling: How to Keep Your Audience on the Edge" |
10:30am - 11:00am |
Networking break - Visit the resource tables |
11:00am - 12:00noon |
Breakout sessions with 4 speakers:
Craig Valentine and Ed Tate - "How to Work and Win with Public Seminar Companies"
Patricia Fripp - "What Hollywood Teaches that We Need to Know as Speakers"
Darren LaCroix - "Got Humor? Comedy Secrets for Professional Presentations" |
12:00noon - 1:00pm |
Networking lunch - Visit the resource tables |
1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Keynote: Darren LaCroix - "How I Went from
Presentation Chump to World Champ" |
2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Networking break - Visit the resource tables |
2:30pm - 3:35pm |
Breakout sessions with 4 speakers:
Darren LaCroix - "When and How to Create Product to Sell"
Patricia Fripp - "Good to Great" (audience members get coached on openings and stories)
Craig Valentine and Ed Tate - "How to Work and Win with Public Seminar Companies" |
3:35pm - 4:35pm |
Breakout session with 3 speakers:
Patricia Fripp - "Good to Great" (audience members get coached on openings and stories)
Ed Tate - TBA
Darren LaCroix - "The Dead Frog - Dissecting the World Championship" |
4:35pm - 4:45pm |
Move to general session room |
4:45pm - 5:00pm |
Lady and The Champs: "Your Next Step"
Lady and The Champs answer your questions |
Patricia Fripp
Hall of Fame Speaker
www.Fripp.com
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales presentation trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers, and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her "One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America." She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations.
Steven Covey's Executive Excellence magazine named her "One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence." Kiplinger's Personal Finance says, "Patricia Fripp's speaking school is the sixth best way you can invest in your career." Before becoming a full-time speaker, Patricia enjoyed a successful career in a service industry for 24 years. She owned two highly successful businesses that included training both service and sales personnel. Patricia first received payment for speaking and training in 1976. Since 1980 she has spoken to at least 100 groups a year, many of them repeat engagements. This includes Fortune 100 companies and major associations worldwide. The over 4,000-member National Speakers Association elected her the first female President in 1984. She has won or been awarded every designation given by NSA, including the Hall of Fame and the Cavett Award, the highest honor and considered the Oscar of the speaking world.Patricia is the author of two books, Get What You Want! and Make It, So You Don't Have to Fake It!, and coauthor of Speaking Secrets of the Masters and Insights into Excellence. She is featured in the Bullet Proof Manager video series, which is sold in over fifty countries. Fripp starred in the popular training film Travel the Road to Success: An Adventure in Customer Service.
Craig Valentine
1999 World Champion of Public Speaking
www.CraigValentine.com
Craig Valentine, President of The Communication Factory, is an award-winning speaker, trainer, and facilitator. He presents programs on Change, Communications, Teambuilding, Performance, Leadership, and Motivation. Craig is also a proven champion in sales, management, and even athletics. He has been the Salesperson of the year for a division of Glencoe / McGraw-Hill by achieving 233% of his goal.
Now, as a professional speaker and trainer, he holds programs in the USA, Canada, England, Jamaica, Qatar, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. His vast business experience along with his MBA from Johns Hopkins University has made him a highly sought-after sales, management, and communications trainer. One of the reasons Craig leads off this program was to immediately take your communication and presentation skills to great heights.
Craig's tips will help fearful speakers become almost fearless. His heartfelt stories will help you make the leap from fretful anxiety to eager anticipation.
Ed Tate
2000 World Champion of Public Speaking
www.EdTate.com
Ed Tate is a successful trainer, author, international keynote speaker and executive. As a trainer, Ed launched his career with Career Track, a public seminar company. There he was booked frequently as one of their popular trainers, working over 100 dates annually. Later, he became the Training Executive for the Denver Rocky Mountain News. In 2001, he led a transition team to merge the 145 year-old “Rocky” with its 125-year-old rival —The Denver Post — a merger that involved more than 5000 people.
As an author, Ed co-wrote the book, Motivational Selling — Advice on selling effectively, staying Motivated and Being a Peak Sales Producer. He is also a contributor to the books: Stories Trainers Tell and The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters. Additionally, Ed co-produced the audio albums, Speaking Secrets of the Champions and Connect with Any Audience.
As a speaker, he’s pretty good! Out of 175,000 members from 70 countries, Ed won the coveted Toastmasters International 2000 World Championship of Public Speaking. He has spoken professionally in 46 states, ten countries and 4 continents. This international keynote speaker has earned a reputation as the "speaker who energizes, educates and entertains." Ed’s success in business spans over two decades. For fourteen years he was a successful National Account Executive, selling over $500 million in products and services. He co-created two business units that produced over $1.25 billion in revenues. For six years, Ed has been the owner of Ed Tate & Associates, LLC – a professional development firm that provides Keynote, Endnote presentations & workshops on Leadership, Coping with Change and Sales.
Darren LaCroix
2001 World Champion of Public Speaking
www.Humor411.com
Since his victory in 2001, Darren LaCroix has traveled the world demystifying the process of creating a powerful speech. He has roused audiences in faraway places like Oman, Malaysia, and Taiwan with his inspirational journey from first-rate chump to first-class champ, proving anything is possible if you are willing to work for it.Darren may have been "born without a funny bone in his body," but he possessed the desire to learn and the willingness to fail necessary to achieve his dream. The self-proclaimed "student of comedy" is living proof that humor is a skill that can be learned. He went on to become a professional comedian. Darren's story not only won him the World Championship, but it has inspired audiences who are up against challenges and deal with rejection.
His successful book, Laugh & Get Rich: How to Profit from Humor in Any Business, contains interviews with corporate executives who share his philosophy. Now translated into three languages, it is a mainstay on business bookshelves. As co-founder of The Humor Institute and a co-creator of The Humor Boot Camp, Darren directs seminars that help presenters wisely use the power of humor to "lighten up" their presentations.Darren weaves stories and humor together to illustrate how storytelling can enhance your message and entertain your audience.
