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• SOUTH BAY PROGRAM: VisualStory Mini Workshop

  • When
    12 Jul 2017
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Duarte Academy 755 N. Mary Ave. Sunnyvale, CA
  • Spaces left
    20
  • Registered
    20 registrants

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  Presentations are broken. The presentation paradigm must be changed in order for all the brilliant ideas to be heard. But how?
  
  Duarte’s 2-hour workshop will provide techniques and tools to shift your mindset and change your organizational culture.
  
  Based on Nancy Duarte’s award-winning books, Resonate and Slide:ology, we will delve into into: 
  

  • Audience Analysis 
  • The Big Idea 
  • Content Creation 
  • Visual Design Basics 

  Learning Outcomes 
  You will learn about the skills needed to more deeply connect with your audiences and how to visually display your message for a memorable presentation and call-to-action.  You will learn to: 
  

  • Identify the needs of the audience 
  • Match audience needs with presenter’s shared experiences, values and goals 
  • Build an analog storyboard, addressing the presentation’s big idea, structure and flow 
  • Identify a slide’s signal vs. noise (signal:noise ratio) 
  • Arrange slide elements for audience comprehension 

  Job Aids 
  

  • HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations 
  • StoryMap 
  • Sticky Notes 
  • Pens
    

  
  
  
  PRESENTER:
  Laura Wall Klieves, Vice President, Duarte Academy is the daughter of a retired elementary school teacher, and her unrequited love is teaching. With three decades of experience as a marketing executive for big and small advertising agencies and clients, Laura brings a vast knowledge of visual story to Duarte.
  
  Today, Laura serves as VP of Duarte’s Academy. Laura is responsible for the business operations including IP development, facilitation, logistics, marketing and sales. She joined Duarte in 2010, just months after the very first Slide:ology workshop was created, and has been instrumental in expanding Nancy Duarte’s award-winning books into four additional instructor-led workshops, and an award-winning eCourse.
  
  When Laura has the opportunity to facilitate a workshop, she brings a wealth of experience in great visual design and storytelling from the trenches and weaves these stories into the learning throughout the workshop. Her energetic and easy-going style creates a great learning environment.
  
  Laura is a third-generation native San Franciscan, whose maternal grandmother survived the 1906 Earthquake. She’s a second-generation graduate from San Francisco State University, with a BS in Business Administration, focused on Marketing and Advertising. A mother of a daughter and son, Laura is also a proud Girl Scout and Boy Scout leader.
  
  SCHEDULE
  

  6:00 – 6:20	Light Dinner & Networking
  6:20 – 8:30	Program
  8:30 –	Q & A

  
  

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• NORTH BAY GIG: End of Summer Party & Potluck

  • When
    15 Aug 2017
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Howarth Park, 630 Summerfield, Santa Rosa CA 95405 - Gazebo picnic area, near the large children play park
  • Spaces left
    40
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  It’s time again for our annual summer party. Let’s get together as friends and colleagues and enjoy it! Food and friends are a great combination. Mingle, chat, eat, drink, and be merry with your fellow workplace learning professionals.
  
  Please bring an appetizer to share. Drinks will be provided
  
  There is no charge for this event, but registering will help us plan for numbers.
  
  Please RSVP by August 12.
  
  
  Detailed map of the venue can be found at: http://ci.santa-rosa.ca.us/doclib/Documents/Howarth%20Gazebo%20Map.pdf
  
  For questions please email Danny Hage, preselect@tdgoldengate.org.

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