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Title: Own the Stage: How to Use Acting, Movement and Vocal Techniques to Captivate and Inspire Audiences

Guest Speaker: Johnathan Bender, MS, MFA

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6:00 – 7:00 PM ET – Education Session
7:00 – 8:00 PM ET – Deep Dive      

Own the Stage: How to Use Acting, Movement and Vocal Techniques to Captivate and Inspire Audiences

Studies show that the most speakers lose the audience’s interest after only 10 minutes. If you want to be a highly impactful speaker – even transformational – you need amazing delivery skills and to know when, why and how to use them. Lifelong theatre professional and speaker Jonathan Bender, MS, MFA will introduce cutting-edge performance techniques to help you expand your toolbox of self-expression to go beyond your “habit zone” so that your body language and voice move and inspire your audience in new ways, while maintaining authenticity. And, he’ll explain how you can “score” your talk to create variation throughout that will capture and maintain your audience’s rapt attention from start to finish. You’ll be sure to walk away with new ideas and tools to take your speaking to a new level.

Many experienced speakers tend to stay more in the box when it comes to their self-expression as well as how they structure talks. There’s a lot that they can learn from the world of performance, including how they put together and structure a talk to keep it exciting and captivating throughout, as well as delivery techniques that keep it exciting and  engaging from start to finish.

As an experienced theater professional who has also been in public speaking for most of my life, I love to bridge these worlds by giving a framework for how they can learn strong performance techniques. This presentation will introduce key concepts and give tastes of some techniques to inspire them to train more deeply so that they can be even more impactful.