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Master the art of public speaking and enhance your communication skills with a wide range of professional public speaking classes in NYC. Learn invaluable techniques, build confidence, and transform your presentations into captivating and persuasive experiences.

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Brand Storytelling: Powerful Story That Inspires

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Brand Storytelling: Creating A Powerful Story That Inspires “Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but the stories you tell.” - Seth Godin Traditional marketing is dead. Consumers today are highly skeptical of corporate-style disruption advertising. In the age of Instagram and direct-to-consumer commerce, you build a brand by building a following first. But how do you rise above the noise to attract these passionate fans? Start...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Refining Your Public Speaking and Presentation Skills

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Figure out how to be your best when the pressure’s on. The ability to connect with others in an authentic way is the key to being a great speaker – and it carries over into the success of your business and personal life. This hands-on workshop gives each student the chance to articulate their specific public speaking goals and give a 1 – 2 minute pitch/speech. You’ll receive expert feedback in a supportive environment and leave this workshop...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

The Storytelling & Listening Workshop

The Academi Of Life @ 34 West 28th St, New York, NY

Students will learn about the remarkable capacity of stories – ‘storytelling that has a transfixing grip on our hearts and minds, that can change our shared experience for the better'. A group of strangers walks into a room and forms a circle. They tell their stories. They listen to one another. Something happens.  Experience what participants have called essential, empowering, and utterly transformational.  Whether you are...

(6) All levels 18 and older
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Drafting and Delivering a Pitch Perfect Presentation

General Assembly

If you’re in a profession where you need to pitch, sell, or present regularly, this is an opportunity for you to learn tricks of the trade and gain confidence in your abilities. In this class, we’ll go through the presentation process from start to finish. Beginning with understanding the importance of storytelling in business, we’ll cover a variety of story formats — including the high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, e-mail pitch, and...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Storytelling for Entrepreneurs: Elevator Pitches

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Our brains seem to be hardwired for story. We binge watch our favorite shows or find ourselves unable to put a book down because we all love a good story. Yet storytelling is often left out of the office and boardrooms. Facts and figures have their place, but they seldom inspire or gain buy-in from colleagues or investors. In this class, you’ll learn how to utilize storytelling techniques that can help your startup or project pitch as well as...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

How to Launch a Podcast

General Assembly

For thought leaders, companies, and brands with a need to amplify their authority and expand their reach, podcasting is quickly becoming one of the best ways to communicate your ideas, your passion, and your unique insights to an engaged audience. In this interactive workshop, we will review all the aspects of creating, launching, and marketing your new podcast. The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Storytelling (Online)

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ **Virtual Classroom

The personal is universal - and we want to hear what you have to say in only the way you can share it. Everyone is a storyteller - be it onstage, on Zoom, or just in day-day life, and this class is about crystalizing the moments of joy, hilarity, and vulnerability that make you unique.  This class will focus on how to craft five-minute personal narratives through a wide array of “Moth-Style” prompts, and with weekly exercises on both the...

(4) All levels 16 and older
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$195

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Designing Great Presentations

General Assembly

In this class, you’ll learn how to design a great presentation. Great presentations are the result of combining relevant content and beautiful design. Too often, we’re surrounded by decks that are hard to understand and aren’t visually pleasing. By going deep into the strategy, content, and design aspects of creating a top notch presentation, you’ll learn how you can utilize different aspects of a presentation to better motivate, persuade,...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Telling Stories with Photography

I Write NY

With iconic & historical portrait photographer and filmmaker, Sebastian Piras. A unique approach and inspiring a basic guide to the artistic and business skills that are the foundation of a career in photography. Firsthand experiences and the realities of maintaining your craft and creativity are discussed along with presenting sample photographs by iconic photographers. There will be assignments to practice key observation and technical skills...

(1) All levels 12 and older
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How to Make Data Driven Presentations

General Assembly

Students will learn how to see, understand, use, and share data to make smarter decisions and grow their business. We’re constantly incorporating more and more data into our decision-making and everyday business lives. This means a greater emphasis on communicating with people about data, as well as being able to communicate with data itself. Even if you’re an expert at drawing insights from data, unless you can share those insights effectively...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Virtual Presentation Skills

Irene Maslowski

What you'll learn in this presentation skills class: Simply stated — in today’s business environment, stellar presentation skills are critical for advancing one’s career, securing the sales deal or raising capital. Those who possess inadequate presentation skills fail to inspire their teams, ace the interview, connect with clients, and lose the opportunity to advance their careers or get that raise. Regardless if you are presenting to a small...

(4) All levels 16 and older
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Pursuing Happiness and Good Habits

Be Social Change @ 110 E 28th St, New York, NY

Firesides are intimate discussions with founders, thought leaders, and innovators in the social impact space. Marcos dives deep with guests about new ideas, best practices, and lessons learned in developing innovative ways of growing purpose + impact. While our “Future of” Series are panel discussions about a specific topic or theme, Fireside provide a space to not only delve into the unique expertise of our guest but also into origin stories...

(245) All levels 18 and older
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Future of Events

Be Social Change

Join us to learn about the best strategies and technologies for creating meaningful events in today’s reality. Hosting events isn’t the same as it was pre-pandemic. The massive industry is changing dramatically: how can organizations create lasting connections with their attendees virtually and use creative events to advance their missions and brand supporters? Join expert professionals for an interactive conversation about the best ideas for...

(245) All levels 18 and older
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Storytelling for Social Change

Be Social Change

“By learning how to consciously craft and share powerful stories, we can challenge oppressive systems and invite people to imagine and embody collective liberation. If we shift our cultural stories that sustain oppressive systems– narratives of domination, extraction, inadequacy, separation and inevitability, to narratives of wholeness, interdependence, connection and power – we can create communities of belonging, rooted in care for each...

(245) All levels 18 and older
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Building Your PowerPoint Design Reel/Template Examples

Jam Media

The focus of this workshop is on beginning to design your reel that will serve as your calling card when approaching a potential client for PowerPoint design business. We will spend time creating your first reel and go over how to handle differences in format (4×3 vs 16×9) as well as how to build a couple of example templates to show to future clients. We’ll discuss how to use these elements to get work and add to your reel over time....

All levels 16 and older
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Advanced Facilitation and Design Jam (Virtual)

Agile Play Consulting, LLC

Go beyond the Liberating Structures basics and join us for a virtual facilitators cohort learning experience! In these three weekly three-hour sessions you will explore some of the more advanced structures such as Panarchy, Purpose to Practice, and Discovery and Action Dialogue (DAD) . We found them to be relevant in the variety of complex use cases: Leading an Agile/Lean transformation effort in your organization Managing systems redesign...

Advanced 18 and older
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Are You Serious?

Hatchery

Practice your pitch and receive honest feedback about your company. We open our doors to a fast paced New York style pitch event. We style honesty in ways others may be too polite to share. It's what you need to hear about your startup, covering marketing, finance, technology, business, presentation, and more. ​How it works: 1. RSVP to attend 2. We accept pitches on a rolling basis and select five companies to pitch at each AYS event. We strongly...

(1) All levels 18 and older
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Getting Pitch And Business Ready In 11 Steps

Hatchery

Learn the power of storytelling and how to effectively use it to pitch your product to companies or investors. Stories shape how others see you. If they want to hire you... buy from you. Listening matters. Stories persuade.  Move people to action. 1. Goal - Why are you telling the story? 2. Grab attention - Why the audience listens to your story? 3. Engage - Why would audience care? 4. Enable action - Why others would want to share story?...

(1) Beginner 18 and older
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Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Introverts

General Assembly @ Online Class
, New York, NY

Tired of feeling anxious when presenting yourself or your business to clients, or when hanging around all those back-slapping extroverts at cocktail parties? If so, this workshop is for you!  By joining us you’ll learn: How to manage your public speaking nerves How to create the right communication mindset How to be authentic and likable in crowds How to look like you belong in the spotlight (because you do) How to tell a thoughtful...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Speaking and Presentation Skills for Women

The Engaging Educator @ Online Classroom via Zoom, New York, NY

Please note, this class will be held via ZOOM in a password protected room. Please download Zoom prior to class. This class is open to women and non-binary people. Public speaking is feared more than death. We spend so much time preparing WHAT we are going to say that we fail to focus on the HOW. What does it take to make wooing a crowd look easy? And even if you don’t fear public speaking – are you good at it, or have you had an audience...

(401) All levels 18 and older
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