BiographyWhen meeting planners need a speaker and trainer who knows how to attract and hold an audience's attention — by keeping them listening, watching, participating, and in tune with the speaker’s message — they turn to Brenda Besdansky, Speakers World principal, who has over two decades experience working with U.S. and global business presenters. Brenda is an award-winning trainer and coach for such major corporations such as Symantec Corporation, Silicon Valley Bank, Spherion Corporation and AT&T among others, as well as associations such as the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Career Masters Assosociation and The Tech Museum of Innovation. Brenda is also a university business school instructor for top-tiered institutions such as University of California, Berkeley and Pepperdine University. With her extensive and varied experience, Brenda is committed to delivering finely-crafted programs to diverse audiences.
Getting Your Act Together: The Five Elements of Successful Elevator Pitching™
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Today’s networkers need to learn new ways of getting their messages across. In super-competitive markets and a fast-paced world, new techniques are required to make an impact, one of which is the ability to deliver a concise, compelling differentiator: an elevator pitch.
Getting Your Act Together: The Five Elements of Successful Elevator Pitching™, a Speakers World training and coaching program, is the answer for those who want the most intense, and at the same time, the most flexible way to move to the highest level of making convincing, dynamic elevator pitches that get impressive and dramatic results.
After experiencing Getting Your Act Together: The Five Elements of Successful Elevator Pitching™ you will know how to:
1. Identify what your point is, or ought to be, and learn how to find it.
2. Organize your pitch to fit specific audiences and timeframes and get to the point succinctly in 60 seconds or less.
3. Script and deliver a powerful pitch that potential employers, business partners, or other stakeholders will find compelling.
4. Make a good — and lasting — first impression.
5. Move your listener to act.
In Getting Your Act Together: The Five Elements of Successful Elevator Pitching™, Brenda helps you learn to enjoy impromptu speaking opportunities, gain more creativity and spontaneity, and discover your unique presentation style while increasing your self confidence.
You will refine your speaking expertise and stagecraft for a successful impromptu appearance in a networking situation, or, at a moment's notice, with an informal pitch in front of a potential employer, client, or investor. This program will help you to:
• Tell your story in a dramatic, compelling way.
• Think on your feet and speak extemporaneously with assurance.
• Project effective personal and professional presence.
• Reduce performance anxiety.
You’ll also develop the strategies and techniques to be able to:
• Know the listeners and their needs to generate an effective, personalized pitch.
• Decide what results are wanted: what you want the listener to think, feel and do after the pitch.
• Manage challenging questions that result from presenting your pitch.
Getting Your Act Together: The Five Elements of Successful Elevator Pitching™ is a workshop that will allow you to capture the attention you deserve, make an impact, and realize your personal and professional goals. Additional individual online coaching is available where you can be coached from the convenience of your home, office, or on the road – wherever there is access to a phone or computer.
Perfect your elevator pitch today!
What some of her clients have to say about Brenda:
“Your approach is impressive. I come in contact with many communications coaches, and your materials and offers seem to be some of the most refined for business development purposes.”
Chris Pareja, CEO, B2B Power Exchange
"Warm, witty, wow! Brenda was a huge hit at our conference! Her "elevator pitch" presentation was right on the mark, giving participants the tools and confidence that will help grow their practices and make their career/job-search clients more successful. She'll be a permanent resource for our members!"
Susan Whitcomb, Executive Director, Career Masters Institute
"No, this session was not about stunts and action movies, but rather 'The Sixty Second Elevator Pitch is … the basic introduction of who you are and what you are looking for. It will form the basis of your introductory message when networking, your opening statement in telephone contacts with potential clients, and the foundation of your 'Tell me about yourself' answer in a number of business and personal conversations.' The speaker, Brenda Besdansky was really funny, with lots of elevator stories, jokes, a wheel of fortune and 'dinger' but she quickly got us working in pairs and answering some quite tough questions, designed to help us start to work out what our message should be. . . ."
Jackie Hartle, Career Adviser and Publisher, Highflyers Publishing Ltd.
“Brenda Besdansky's engaging teaching style and emphasis on learning by doing made this program on how to design and deliver a successful elevator pitch fun as well as educational. . . . I highly recommend the program to anyone who wants to dramatically improve his or her professional communications."
Eve Collard, Director, Spherion Career Management Consulting Group
Contact Brenda at 415-474-1610 or brenda@speakersworld.com for more information on how this special training program can work for you.