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District Business Meeting - Free

For all District Council members, club proxy holders and interested Toastmasters. Voting members & proxy holders: Please check in at Credentials Desk before the business meeting.

Dinner, Both Contests, Evening Keynote - $90

Includes Buffet Dinner, Table Topics and International Speech Contests and Evening Session Keynote by Tammy Miller.

Lunch, Workshops, General Session Keynote - $65

Includes Buffet Lunch, Choice of 2 Workshops and General Session Keynote by Olivia Schofield.

Table Topics Contest - $20

Admission for One to Table Topics Only - No other events or meals are included.

International Speech Contest - $20

Admission for One to International Speech Only - No other events or meals are included.

EVENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Tammy Miller, DTM, Past International Director

Just Jump

In this lively presentation, Tammy Miller talks about the lessons she learned when she made that big jump out of a plane at 12,000 feet. These lessons can help us understand what it takes for us to JUMP in life. She is a Past International Director of Toastmasters and a member of the National Speakers Association. As an international speaker, author, presentation skills coach, and auctioneer, she loves to help people achieve their goals in life and have fun along the way. Tammyspeaks.com

AFTERNOON KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Olivia Schofield World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist

A Thief, a Failure, a Fabulous Future

Can you imagine overcoming a severe speech impediment to become a contestant in the world final of a prestigious speech competition? Meet Olivia Schofield Her tale examines how a speech impediment made her a thief, a failure and eventually led to a fabulous future. She is Continental Europe’s first finalist in the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking’s 85 year history. From 30,000 Toastmaster contestants representing 116 countries, Olivia stood as the sole woman of the nine finalists in Las Vegas in 2011 speaking to an audience of 2,000. Oliviaschofield.com, Wodwik.com

Meet our extraordinary workshop presenters

You will have the opportunity to attend two of six workshops on the topics of communication, leadership and personal growth.

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Educational Workshop Session #1

Communication / Cathey Armillas, DTM, IPDG

The 9½ Unbreakable Rules of Marketing: How to Market Yourself, Your Cause or Your Business

Join award-winning, Non-Traditional Marketing Strategist, Immediate Past District 7 Governor and Distinguished Toastmaster, Cathey Armillas, as she guides you through the 9½ Unbreakable Rules of Marketing. Find out why these rules are “unbreakable” and how you can successfully use them to differentiate yourself among millions. This session shows you what it takes to be the creator of great marketing and how you can apply marketing to all aspects of your life. Puramarketing.com

Personal Growth / Sonia Satra, CC

Oscar Winning Presentations

Learn “tricks of the acting trade” to create greater audience connection and impact in presentations. Sonia Satra has over 10,000 hours of on-screen and stage experience. She has starred on Guiding Light and One Life to Live, and she has made numerous leading and guest appearances on network shows and in films plays, and commercials. Sonia is currently President of Federal Toastmasters and the Program Chair/ President-Elect for the NSA-NYC Chapter. Castproductions.com/soniasatra.html

Leadership / Steve Chen, DTM, IPDG

Lead With Purpose (And a Smile)

You will learn from this fun and interactive workshop three effective leadership styles, five best kept secrets and seven easy ways to be a superior leader—naturally. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to lead your teams (at work or in Toastmasters) to achieve and exceed goals while earning the respect, love and loyalty of team members. Steve Chen, DTM, IPDG has been a Toastmaster for over 10 years. As a district governor (2010-2011), Steve led District 46 to #5 in the world and #1 in the North America.

Educational Workshop Session #2

Communication / Win Sheffield

How to Tell a Story: From Hollywood to Your Speech and Your Life

Join Career Coach Win Sheffield as he reviews how to tighten your storytelling skills and take them beyond your speeches and into your life. Win will share how to build your story using Hollywood principles, avoid the problem of the missing middle, and develop and hone the message of your stories. A career coach in private practice in New York City, Win Sheffield previously worked in strategy development and management consulting. WinSheffield.com

Personal Growth / Susan Eisner

Effectively Communicating Anger and Other Difficult Emotions

This seminar offers cutting-edge experiential techniques to identify and feel difficult emotions, and appropriately express them in workplace and personal situations. A public speaker for thirty years, Susan Eisner has given thousands of wellness seminars. She’s also a Visionary Leadership Coach, and an Anger Management Professional who uses cutting-edge guided imagery techniques that foster faster, longer-lasting results. VisionaryHealthSolutions.com

Leadership / Karen Baker Blum

7 Ways to Sink (or Swim) Your Leadership

Karen Baker Blum facilitates theater games, peer feedback and body awareness. She contrasts seven demoralizing tactics with seven inspirational styles. This seminar makes visible exactly where your leadership sinks and guarantees ways to get it afloat. Be ready to entertain and be entertained while laughing and learning. Storyteller, muse, humorist and entrepreneur, Karen Baker Blum is truly larger than life. Businessaspleasure.com