Public Speaking 101 feat. Keri Thompson

Is professional development of your list of New Year's Resolutions? Join SPARK BOSTON for a PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP Is professional development of your list of New Year's Resolutions? Do you get a bit tongue-tied when speaking to a crowd? Join SPARK Boston for a public speaking workshop featuring Keri Thompson, a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Emerson College. Keri specializes in public speaking and professional communication skills and has extensive public speaking experience, and has taught, coached and lectured on the subject at various schools and organizations across the country. At this workshop, you'll learn how to speak in public, best practices, and practice these skills in real time. This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP as space is limited. About Keri Thompson: Keri Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Emerson College and specializes in public speaking and professional communication skills. She has extensive public speaking experience and has taught, coached and lectured on the subject at various schools and organizations across the country. Her research specialties include nonverbal communication and presence, audience analysis, political communication, social media, rhetoric and language. She specializes in coaching and training business executives and political candidates. Keri is politically active and is a current Selectwoman in the town of Cohasset, Ma. She frequently works with training political candidates and campaigns on imaging and message strategy. And additionally serves as a Speech Consultant at Babson College (working with coaching Babson students, staff, alums, and Executive MBA students). For the past few years, she has been busy pioneering ways to use social media and digital storytelling as a means of public speaking in the classroom, business world and political arena. Keri has graduate degrees from Pepperdine University and The University of Texas at Austin