TEDxChicago presents an interactive, engaging, and unique TED-like experience right here in Chicago. Come together to “Press Pause” with this year’s featured speakers and performers.
SAC Chicagoland will host the inaugural social meeting on April 24, 2019.
All independent consultants are welcome to join us. Network and associate to grow our business together.
The Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) brings together successful independent consultants from around the world with the top thinkers in consulting today. Be part of the most robust community of individual consultants in the world. Participate in online and in-person events. Grow your consulting practice by staying involved with the best of the best.
Our founder Tara Rahe had a very interesting talk with Amy, who is an engineer turn artist who paints on water and a professional speaker who paints on air with words.
You know a book would take your career to new levels. But with all the demands on a speaker’s time, how do you find time to write one? Have you been chipping away at the same manuscript forever without much progress? Do you need a system that can get you to completion with success and satisfaction? Wrangling a fickle muse to meet a deadline—or just to get rid of that looming blank page—is a life-skill for every speaker who wants the advantages being an author can bring.
Allie Pleiter, the bestselling author of over 40 books, shares the nuts and bolts of how to manage your writing muse. You’ll learn how to set goals and deadlines that reflect your personal writing style and speed–and smart ways to get faster when you need it.
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 and how to take the humor trainers 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.
Want to know how to leverage your platform? Learn how Jeffrey Hayzlett took his books and speaking platform to a new level by influencing the media.
how to book 150+ keynotes/year
how we landed a prime-time television show
how we leverage every show and every speech to get more events and more speeches
how social media accounts for most of our leads and bookings
how we use our branding to make sure we are seen in the best positioning
How we turned a TV show into a Business Network
That is just some of it— because the biggest thing we will do- is answer any and all questions you may have about how we do things — what works and what has failed miserably. So bring your questions, any and all. Ask whatever you want and we will be glad to share. We will show you EVERYTHING— our marketing samples, our marketing plan, contracts, tweets, social media activation worksheets—–anything and everything.
We won’t have all the answers or the ‘right’ way to do things. But what we do works for us and we are glad to share how we do it and if there is something you can borrow or learn from, well that is great!
ViewMasters is a fast-paced and fun Toastmasters club that meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays of each month, 11:45 AM-1:00 PM, at The Metropolitan, a business club in Willis Tower.
Anyone interested in improving their public speaking and communication skills is welcome!
Every time you speak an opportunity to book more business presents itself to you. This can be either an encore invitation, an audience inquiry, or a referral to another group. If you aren’t getting at least one new booking at every gig, you might be missing some strategic moves. How solid is your spin ratio?
In this session, Laurie shares every action she uses to uncover leads and close more work
TEDxChicago presents an interactive, engaging, and unique TED-like experience right here in Chicago. Come together to “Press Pause” with this year’s featured speakers and performers.
SAC Chicagoland will host the inaugural social meeting on April 24, 2019.
You know a book would take your career to new levels. But with all the demands on a speaker’s time, how do you find time to write one? Have you been chipping away at the same manuscript forever without much progress? Do you need a system that can get you to completion with success and satisfaction? Wrangling a fickle muse to meet a deadline—or just to get rid of that looming blank page—is a life-skill for every speaker who wants the advantages being an author can bring.
Grow Your Speaking:
Every time you speak an opportunity to book more business presents itself to you. This can be either an encore invitation, an audience inquiry, or a referral to another group. If you aren’t getting at least one new booking at every gig, you might be missing some strategic moves. How solid is your spin ratio?