90-minute workshop:
Be a Better speaker
You Are a Vocal Athlete: How to Care For Your Voice as a Professional Speaker
August 27 | 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT
You Are a Vocal Athlete: How to Care For Your Voice as a Professional Speaker
Hosted by Gregory Offner
This event is a 90-minute interactive workshop held in Zoom Meetings.
As professional speakers, we obsess over marketing techniques, sales strategy, storytelling, AND stagecraft, but often overlook the most essential ingredient of our speaking businesses: our voice. Your voice is the unsung hero of your speaking business. It delivers your impact, your insight, your punchlines, your power. Paradoxically, most speakers treat vocal care like an afterthought…that is, until it's too late.
In this interactive workshop, designed for speakers by someone who understands the vocal demands of the profession, Gregory Offner will shift how you think about your voice and its care. He'll share his harrowing experience of nearly losing his voice completely and the 15 surgical procedures required to restore its function. You'll hear what led to it and what strategies he learned throughout the recovery process that enabled him to regain his voice; and set him on a mission to make sure you never lose yours.
Whether you're speaking 5 times a year or 50, your voice is your business. A top athlete wouldn't compete without training, warmups, and recovery protocols, and neither should you. You’ll leave this workshop more aware of how your voice functions and armed with the tools you need to ensure its continued health for years to come. Specifically, you'll take away:
- Easy pre and post-stage habits to protect your voice
- Early warning signs to spot before they become problems
- Must-haves in your travel or speaker kit for vocal health
- The 3 biggest mistakes speakers make on high-volume days
Register below to join us on Wed., August 27 @ 3 p.m. ET for this upcoming BBS interactive workshop.
About Gregory Offner
Gregory Offner spent more than a decade entertaining audiences around the world singing in theaters and at piano bars, prior to entering the speaking profession. The catalyst for the change? Nearly losing his voice...permanently.
After a freak vocal accident left Greg facing the crushing reality of permanent voice loss, Gregory opted to enter the operating room for a risky surgical procedure to save his vocal cords. One surgery led to another and ultimately, over the better part of a decade, he underwent 15 procedures to rebuild and restore his vocal function. During this process, he discovered that while his professional singing career had come to an end, the opportunity to entertain and educate audiences on a different sort of stage was just beginning.
Today, he's a full-time keynote speaker, author, and #girldad to two talented toddlers. In his spare time, Gregory has begun helping emerging speakers learn and implement sales processes and vocal health techniques—the two elements any speaking business needs to thrive.