Women in Business Event: Keeping Cool Under Fire October 25, 2011

Keeping Cool Under Fire
With Marianne Fleischer, senior corporate communications consultant, Fleischer Communications

Join Marianne Fleischer, senior corporate communications consultant, Fleischer Communications and former TV newscaster, for a lively, interactive workshop. In our careers we're called upon to pitch ideas up the food chain, present to clients, speak formally or jockey with colleagues for budgets or glory. How we think on our feet can propel or derail our careers. Getting others on board takes savvy. Ultimately others judge us when we go off script: by how we think on our feet and read the room in the moment.

Come ready to practice WHAT IF scenarios so you:

ﾠWill be less thrown off by tough questioners, reduced time or change of plans
ﾠCan read the room and switch gears
ﾠHold your own on a panel
ﾠUnderstand the Dance of Status when pitching leaders
ﾠDevelop Executive Presence

Fleischer helps companies tell their stories better-offline, online and on stage. As a writer, TV/event producer and executive speech coach, she wears three hats. As a Corporate Communications strategist she has advised leaders at Genentech, Apple, Web Ex, HP, Landor, Esquire Magazine, Sony, Stanford, Kaiser, Wells Fargo - to name a few. Fleischer has been speech writer to 3 local CEOs at Autodesk, Genentech, and Charles Schwab. She started as an academic, teaching public speaking on a fellowship at University of Massachusetts. She then became a TV newscaster and documentary producer for two TV stations in the Midwest. Moving to San Francisco, she was a documentary and talk show producer for KRON-TV, KPIX-TV and KQED-TV.

Cost is $25 for Chamber members and $35 for prospective members if paid by Oct. 21. Additional $5 after Oct. 21 and at the door.

Official Website: http://events.sfchamber.com/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1931