Engage your audience by learning how to tell a great story — your story.  Reach across a variety of platforms to tell the most compelling stories of your organization whether in 140 characters, web copy, a pitch to donors, or a PowerPoint presentation. You’ll learn the structure of a great story and how you can use these techniques to share your organization’s purpose with donors, community stakeholders and participants.

Learning Objectives:

• Tools that you can share with your team, board members and volunteers to make them better brand ambassadors.
• Techniques for telling a great story, and a way to find your organization’s most compelling stories.
• An understanding of how to read your audience and how to connect with them to share the purpose and needs of your organization.
• Simple and effective exercises for you to be a great presenter, from the page to the stage.

Cost: $160 members, $320 non-members

Instructor: Alice Fairfax helps small business & nonprofit leaders tell a great story. An improvisational storyteller at Walt Disney World for over 20 years, and a Disney Events scriptwriter, she is the Story Coach for the Victory Cup in Orlando, Florida. She’s appeared on top-rated podcasts like “Work for Humans” with Dart Lindsley and was featured in Orlando Magazine’s Women Who Move the City issue. She holds a BA from Rollins College and a certificate of Creativity & Innovation from Walt Disney World & Harvard Business School Publishing. A published author, her latest book “Tell Your Story: Tools to Take You from a Tweet to a TED Talk” helps you use the power of story to captivate your audience and inspire action.