Speaking for Impact

Shirley E. Nice earned a master's degree at Northwestern University in speech communications, taught both secondary and college speech and theatre. For the past twenty-five years she has been speaking to corporate, government, and business audiences on how to improve employee relations, handle change, reduce conflict, and build high impact teams. She has served on the extension faculty at the University of California at Berkeley for over twenty years and taught classes at several other universities throughout the country. Her clients include IBM, Union Carbide, Bank of America, US Forest and Park Service, Lucas Film LTD., NASA, and the Kowloon Railway in Hong Kong. A dynamic platform speaker, she is an active member of the National Speakers Association, serving on the Northern California Board of Directors, and speaks throughout the world on "building the connection."

I.MEETING THE IMPACT IMPERATIVE.

1.What Do Today's Audiences Demand?
II.GETTING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR OWN IMPACT.

2.Open a Window to Yourself!
3.What Do You Bring to the Party?
4.What Is Your Message? Finding a Simple Dwelling in the Center of a Complex World.
5.Where Is Your Passion?
III.FINDING THE IMPACT FIT WITH EVERY AUDIENCE.

6.What Audiences Hear and Remember.
7.The Four Faces in Every Audience: Finding the Fit with Diverse Audiences.
IV.MASTERING THE THREE ESSENTIALS FOR IMPACT.

8.The Speaker Makes It Safe.
9.The Speaker Defines the Space.
10.The Speaker Lights the Energy.