Lark Doley,DTM
Toastmasters International President
Workshop Title:
Transforming Your Toastmasters Experience into Personal and Professional Success
Date: April 28, 2019
Time: 12:30
Location: 38F
The youngest Vice Chancellor of Finance in the University of Texas system attributed her rapid rise to professional success to Toastmasters. Then she moved to New York and achieved even greater success on Wall Street. What about you? How “can” you and how “have” you used your Toastmasters skills to transform your personal and professional image? What are the communication and leadership competencies that Toastmasters teaches us? What are key communication and leadership competencies that support personal and professional success? During this presentation we will explore the connection between Toastmasters communication and leadership competencies and those most commonly linked to personal and professional success.
Josephine Lee
2016 WCPS 3rd Place Winner
Workshop Title: Social Media & Branding
Date: April 28, 2019
Time: 15:40
Location: 38F
How to utilize social media to promote you and your business?
Marketing used to be synonymous with advertisement. But in this world inundated with unlimited information and entertainment, it’s becoming harder and harder to stand out. How do you position yourself and your business to break through the noise?
In this workshop, Josephine Lee will share how she used story telling and education to build credibility and rapport with her audience and grew her business without spending any money on marketing.
Learn how you can use marketing to spread ideas, help a cause, build an audience and maintain relationship with your audience regardless of who you are.
Josephine Lee
2016 WCPS 3rd Place Winner
Diana Watson, DTM
2015 District 67 English International Speech Champion
Workshop Title: Social Media & Branding
Workshop Description
Date: April 28, 2019
Time: 15:40
Location: 38F
Workshop Title: Speaking Seed Secrets
Date: April 27, 2019
Time: 14:40
Location: 38F
In this workshop, Diana Watson, the founder of the Speaking Seed, will share some of the secrets on how to go from a novice foreign language public speaker to a successful Speaking Seed champion.
Delivering speeches in another language is no joke. Nobody understands this better than Diana Watson.
Diana Watson is a four-time national speaking champion, an award-winning leader, and a DTM. After seven years in English clubs, she joined a Mandarin club to improve her Chinese. Three years after she joined, Diana became the first foreigner to beat all native Mandarin speakers in a Toastmasters speech contest. Once her winning speech was posted onto YouTube, it reached over a million views in two weeks.
Josephine Lee
2016 WCPS 3rd Place Winner
Workshop Title: How to Write a Championship Speech
Date: April 28, 2019
Time: 13:40
Location: 38F
Just like there are different genres of dance, like jazz, ballet or hip hop, there are different genres of speeches. There are fun and heartfelt wedding toasts, inspiring 45 minute keynotes, persuasive campaign speeches and countless others.
Each speech genre has a different tone depending on the audience, content and performance. Of all the different types of speeches, a competition speeches are the most technical and difficult to master.
In this workshop, Josephine Lee will be breaking down her Championship speech line by line. She will explain specific tools that will trigger certain emotions in the audience and will help connect them to the speaker.