Roughly 80% of all jobs at all levels today require excellent oral communication skills, yet these skills are not taught in most schools. Speak With Conviction  is designed for motivated individuals who want to effectively communicate a vision to direct their life and work.

Speak With Conviction  is a two-day workshop that offers concrete steps to more dynamic delivery: better vocal production, clearer diction, and increased charisma with an audience of one, or 1,000. Additionally, practical steps in developing effective presentation content will be covered. Speak With Conviction addresses creating Informative Speeches, and focuses particularly on the most important and most challenging kind of speech: the Persuasive Speech. Also, a new and special section on Fundraising Speeches will be covered.

Because each workshop will be limited to no more than 25 participants, each person will have many opportunities to work, receiving personal feedback to measurably increase skill level. This fun and educational workshop provides a supportive atmosphere at every level. Part of Sarah Standing’s particular teaching gift is her ability to convey constructive criticism in a manner that others can hear. Speak With Conviction is a vital component in becoming a more effective communicator.

Sarah Standing has taught public speaking in colleges, for-profit, and not-for-profit organizations for more than 15 years.  Most recently, she designed and delivered a series of four public speaking workshops for Central Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization that raises 85 percent of the operating costs for Central Park, in New York City.

Other clients include the National Science Foundation Bridge Project, where Sarah teaches team building, new project development, and project presentation. When not conducting independent workshops and trainings, Sarah works as an Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology. There, she teaches public speaking, voice and diction, and small group communication.

Sarah earned her Ph.D. in Theatre  Theatrefrom the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and wrote her dissertation on the intersection of theatre and ecology. She excels at delivering intellectually challenging material in an effective and organized way.

Additionally, Sarah spent more than 30 years in the theatre as an actor, director and teacher. She has studied voice and speech with some of the world’s leading experts, and brings this expertise to her workshops. Her company, Standing/SPEAKING, is dedicated to helping others overcome natural fears of public speaking to become more effective in constructing content and more expressive in presentation and delivery.

(Please note: Because we are bringing in an instructor from out of town, we will be unable to honor workshop refund requests recevied after August 25th.)