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• Special Brunch Program for Platinum Platform Professionals Only

  • When
    Friday, August 19, 2022
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    North Oaks Golf Club, 54 East Oaks Rd, North Oaks, MN 55127

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  Keys to Success as a Global Speaker
  Featuring Mike Podolinsky, CSP, GSF
  
  The NSA-Minnesota Chapter Board of Directors invites Platinum Platform Professionals* to a special gathering!
  

  Former Minnesota resident Mike Podolinksy will be in town to share lessons from a 40-year career as a global speaker now residing in Singapore. A founding member of NSA-Minnesota, Mike is the only two-time president of the Chapter, having served in 1984-85 and 2000-01. He was the first recipient of the Chapter Member of the Year Award and also received the Mark LeBlanc Award.

  During this interactive program focused on experienced speakers, Mike will share insights from his vast global speaking experience:
  

  • How to present local with words, phrases, culture, images, and stories
  • How to work crowds from experience in 37 different countries
  • What works well in (almost) every country
  • What to AVOID like the plague
  • Working with translators

  In addition, Mike will share ideas from one of his signature talks, Opening with Pizzazz and Closing with Punch.

  *The Platinum Platform Professionals (PPP) designation was created in 2000 to:

  1. Recognize our MN Chapter’s outstanding professional members
  2. Enhance PPP member Chapter attendance, involvement, and Board representation
  3. Provide increased opportunity for PPP interaction.
     

  Platinum members include NSA CPAEs, CSPs, Minnesota Hall of Fame inductees, and past Chapter presidents. For more information, please contact current Chapter president, Jon Lokhorst.

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• Speaker Academy Informational Session

  • When
    Monday, August 29, 2022
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    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Plymouth Comfort Inn, 3000 Harbor Lane North, Plymouth, MN 55447

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  Do you have dreams of being a professional speaker, and are curious about how this all works? Are you already speaking and wondering about the next step? Please join the Speaker Academy faculty at our information meeting.
  

  • Learn about NSA-MN Speaker Academy program.
  • Find answers to your questions about the next step to help you meet your speaking goals.
  • Meet other aspiring and professional speakers who are also looking to learn and grow.

  
  

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• Embrace the Change: 15+ Sticky Strategies that Engage Today's Diverse Audience

  • When
    Thursday, September 08, 2022
  •  
    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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  Chapter Meeting

  Embrace the Change: 15+ Sticky Strategies that Engage Today's Diverse Audience
  Guest Speaker: Lenora Billings Harris, CSP, CPAE

  Do your presentations, blogs, articles, books, and videos reflect your understanding that your audience is diverse? Do you conduct a diversity and inclusion check much like you would use spell-check? If you want your message to relate to the broad diversity of people in your audience, join Lenora’s fun yet straight forward session to discover tips and techniques to help you connect in a way that builds on the concept of belonging and inclusion. Her illustrations and suggestions can be applied to any learning environment in-person or virtual no matter what the topic. It is surprisingly easy!
  

  During this engaging, content-rich session you will experience creative ways to apply the principles and techniques of inclusion that grab your audience’s attention and keeps it. Join past NSA president and past Global Speakers Federation president Lenora Billings-Harris, CSP, CPAE to enhance your ability to deliver powerful messages that stick long after the session has ended.
  

  Bonus: Do you have diversity-related questions for which you need answers? Come prepared to ask Lenora.
  

  Takeaways: You will leave this session with...
  

  • At least 15+ easy methods to make sure your message is relevant to diverse groups 
  • Illustrations that relate to you and your audience
  • Great ideas from colleagues  
  • A handout filled with tips and suggestions

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• Speaker Academy Informational Session

  • When
    Monday, September 12, 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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  Do you have dreams of being a professional speaker, and are curious about how this all works? Are you already speaking and wondering about the next step? Please join the Speaker Academy faculty at our information meeting.
  

  • Learn about NSA-MN Speaker Academy program.
  • Find answers to your questions about the next step to help you meet your speaking goals.
  • Meet other aspiring and professional speakers who are also looking to learn and grow.

  
  

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Saturday, October 29, 2022
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    8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Saturday, November 19, 2022
  •  
    8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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• Virtual Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Thursday, December 15, 2022
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Friday, January 20, 2023
  •  
    8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Friday, February 10, 2023
  •  
    8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Saturday, March 11, 2023
  •  
    8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Thursday, April 13, 2023
  •  
    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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