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Webinar: Present with Clarity, Confidence, and Authenticity—To Engage and Inspire Talent

  • February 20, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Zoom - Link sent after registration

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  • Contact feedback@tdhouston.org for code

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Present with Clarity, Confidence, and Authenticity—To Engage and Inspire Talent

In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn practical strategies and actionable tips to elevate your presentations, whether they’re on Zoom or in person. You’ll learn how to create engaging and visually appealing slide decks, master your presence on Zoom (or other virtual platform), and overcome the pitfalls of perfectionism to present your best self. Using mindset hacks, sample pitch templates, and time-saving tips using AI, you’ll leave with the tools to inspire, engage, and influence your audience in any setting. Enhance your professional presence, and drive impact across your organization!

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Engage audiences effectively in both in-person and virtual environments by optimizing Zoom setup, delivery techniques, and audience interaction.

2. Design impactful and visually appealing slide decks using best practices for clarity, readability, and storytelling (including how to utilize AI to spark ideas, create assets, facilitate design, and save time.)

3. Overcome presentation anxiety and perfectionism through mindset strategies that focus on authenticity, preparation, and confidence-building.

4. Structure and deliver presentations that resonate with various audiences—whether pitching ideas to leadership, introducing a new training program, or representing the company to prospective hires.

5. Incorporate storytelling and clear calls to action to motivate and inspire audiences.

Putting it all together:

> Apply techniques to deliver pitches, ideas, and training with clarity, confidence, and authenticity to garner maximum audience engagement.

> Share the above best practices with your talent; incorporate these learnings into your training and feedback to help your workforce bring our their best when they present


ATD Capability Model – Performance Improvement, Learning Technologies

To learn more about this model see: https://tdcapability.org/#/

Melanie Fox empowers executives and public figures to speak clear, confident English through accent reduction, interview and presentation training. She also trains actors to master authentic English and Spanish dialects. She is also a paid public speaker who helps her audiences "Hack into Language" and host of new podcast "Hack That Accent."

Through her brand, Speech Fox, Melanie helps non-native English speakers articulate clear business English and also empowers performers to master dialects from around the world. Melanie has coached speech and pronunciation for 20+ years, and holds a Master's of Science degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University (as well as a Bachelor's of Science degree in Linguistics and Spanish from Georgetown University). She also honed her craft in business presentation and executive leadership roles in the corporate education space as she trained and led successful sales, marketing, and client services teams.



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Email: feedback@tdhouston.org

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F 713-839-1453

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