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• How to Create a Positioning Statement and One Sheet to Book More Business with Lois Creamer

  • When
    Monday, October 10, 2022
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  How to Create a Positioning Statement and One Sheet to Book More Business with Lois Creamer
  

  A special invitation from the Speaker Academy to all NSA Minnesota Members
  

  In this two-hour session, Lois Creamer will share her expertise on how to create a One Sheet that stands out as well as how to create a positioning statement that will add clarity to your business. 
   
  Lois is an industry expert working with speakers who want to book more business, make more money and fully monetize their message. She is the author of Book More Business: Make Money Speaking, and The Speaker Author: Sell More Books and Book More Speeches. Both books are available on Amazon as well as book stores.
   
  Clients include Chicken Soup’s Jack Canfield; author of The Sales Bible Jeffrey Gitomer; Patricia Fripp and more.
   
  Lois' expertise and no nonsense style has led her to invitations to present at NSA national meetings and chapters as well as to members of the Global Federation. In 2021, she was named “Honorary Fellow” by the  Professional Speakers Association United Kingdom and Ireland.
  
  Lois has appeared in Forbes, Bloomberg Business, Speaker Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
  

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• Deep Dive with James Robilotta, CSP

  • When
    Friday, October 14, 2022
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    LuminFire, 5155 East River Rd, Suite 405, Minneapolis
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    7

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  Deep Dive: Your Audience. Your Team.
  Featuring James Robilotta, CSP
  

  Free to NSA-MN Members!
  Beverages and snacks will be provided.
  

  Meeting planners are asking more and more for interactive sessions at their events. If you’re not a magician or musician, don’t worry! There are so many meaningful ways to connect with your audience, the key is finding the avenue that feels authentic to you. In this Deep Dive, NSA-Minnesota member James Robilotta, CSP, will walk you through multiple ways to boost your audience participation and interaction in your keynotes and workshops. You will find stories you didn’t realize you had, put more of you into your presentations, and make the audience feel like they are your teammate, not just willing and unwilling observers.
  
  James Robilotta, CSP, is a professional speaker, personal coach, entrepreneur, and author of Leading Imperfectly: The value of being authentic for leaders, professionals, and human beings. He speaks to willing and unwilling audiences internationally about authentic leadership and promoting memorability. As a speaker, he is doing the two things he loves the most: causing audiences to think critically about their leadership journeys and making people laugh! His thought-provoking talks are infused with self-awareness and comedy stemming from his background as a trained stand-up and improv comedian.
  
  This special program is graciously hosted by NSA-MN member Tim Cimbura, CEO of LuminFire. Their office is located just south of the 694-East River Road interchange.
  

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• Leveraging Laughter in Stories for Connection and Impact

  • 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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  Chapter Meeting

  Leveraging Laughter in Stories for Connection and Impact
  Guest Speaker: Tim Gard, CSP®, CPAE

  Hall of Fame speaker Tim Gard is someone who can find the funny almost anywhere and you can too! You will be excited to know that you don't need more stories. You just need to discover how to make your existing stories funnier. You can do that with Tim's three-step process. Discover how to build humor into stories for training events or the main stage and how to take the humor you currently use and make it funnier and have more impact. Why stop when you get a giggle? With a little bit of work a funny story becomes a hilarious signature story that can get you booked again and again. Several participants will have the opportunity to tell a story during the session and have Tim demonstrate his process and help you find the funny in it.

  1.    How to be able to consistently build humor into stories
  2.    Building humor stories using Tim’s bell curve premise.
  3.    How to identify good humor and avoid bad humor

  Click here to watch a welcome video from Tim
  

  Tim Gard, CSP®, CPAE is a tears-in-your-eyes-laugh-out-loud speaker who teaches people to be more resilient and resourceful and coaches’ businesses on how to enhance productivity and employee enthusiasm. Talented, innovative and memorable, Tim provides amazing take-home value delivered with his one-of-a-kind presentation style. Tim "walks his talk" as a successful business owner himself for more than 20 years. Before starting his business, he worked in the sales industry, as well as State and Federal Government in Human Services, as a fraud investigator and is a navy veteran. Recognized as a pioneer in humor-based training. Tim is a certified speaking professional (CSP) & a member of the Speaker Hall Of Fame, an elite honor held by fewer than 150 speakers worldwide. The author or co-author of Just Plane Funny, My Policy Manual, Motivational Leaders, and Humor Me, Tim humorously delivers messages as universal as his audiences are diverse.

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• Power Tools for A Profitable Speaking Business

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

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  Chapter Meeting

  Power Tools for A Profitable Speaking Business
  Guest Speaker: Crystal Washington, CSP®
  

  Having a successful and sustainable speaking business requires more than simply rocking the stage. Developing systems and policies are key! Let Crystal Washington, CSP share some of the most powerful and underutilized tools for extraordinary business growth. Whether you are a new speaker or a seasoned veteran, you'll learn new ways to leverage old tools and the coolest new tech for business growth. During this event, you will:
  

  1. Discover how to create a system for prospecting
  2. Learn the best tools for event management
  3. Uncover how to market yourself to grow your business

  Crystal Washington, CSP works with organizations that want to leverage technology to increase profits and productivity!
  

  As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal takes complex social media, app, and web topics and makes them easy to understand and accessible for everyday people. Crystal’s clients comprise Fortune 500 companies including Google, Microsoft, and GE, and as a sought-after keynote speaker, she has entertained and educated audiences around the globe.
  

  As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, She appears weekly on season two of the Emmy nominated show, Life 2.0 and she’s appeared in numerous publications including Entrepreneur and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is regularly called on by major television networks as a tech expert.
  

  Crystal is the author of the books One Tech Action and The Social Media Why.
  
  

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• Use the Power of Facilitation to Grow Your Speaking Business!

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

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  Virtual Chapter Meeting

  Use the Power of Facilitation to Grow Your Speaking Business!
  Guest Speaker: Eddie Turner, CSP®
  

  Increasingly, meeting planners are asking for it.  Audiences are demanding it.  What is it? More interaction from speakers! 

  It is no longer enough to be the “sage on the stage.” The highly-paid speakers have discovered that the key to engaging audiences is to become a facilitative speaker—both in delivering keynotes and training and in customized workshops that follow these events.  The COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to pivot to virtual work and virtual programming.  This increases the need for speakers to master the power of facilitation. This program will explain and demonstrate how professional speakers can use the power of facilitation to grow their speaking business.
  

  1. Define facilitation and why it matters for speakers.
  2. Identify opportunities for facilitation.
  3. Explain methods and techniques appropriate for speakers.

  Eddie Turner is an in-demand leadership development expert who works with leaders as an executive coach, facilitator, and speaker to “Accelerate Performance and Drive Impact!”®   For the last two years, he has been ranked in the Top 10 on the Top 30 List of Motivational Speakers by Global Gurus.

  He is a Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®), who has spoken at 10 NSA Chapters, the NSA Winter Conference, been featured on NSA’s Voices of Experience, and written for Speaker Magazine. He has held several leadership roles in his local NSA chapter and is in his second year of service on the National CSP® Committee.
  

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• In-Person Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Friday, January 20, 2023
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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
    Friday, February 10, 2023
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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, March 11, 2023
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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
    Thursday, April 13, 2023
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    5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Boulevard, Golden Valley, MN

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