Public Speaking Consulting
Do you dread giving presentations at work? Cringe whenever a microphone comes your way? Wish you felt more comfortable in front of an audience? Fear of public speaking is extremely common. Tame it and you’ll have more control over your career growth and professional potential. In this workshop, we’ll explore and practice strategies that can help you become a more authentic, confident, and empowered public speaker. Participants will leave with a framework for developing their own process and approach to public speaking. Please prepare for group activities, including light stretching.
Heather E. Schwartz is a performer and author with decades of experience in front of audiences large and small. She has appeared on E! Entertainment's True Hollywood Story; delivered her school assembly program, Love Yourself More, to groups of up to 500 students; and prepped for a live interview on CNN, only to be bumped at the last second by Queen Elizabeth II.
2.5 hour program/onsite/up to 15 particpants
Finding the Girls of Leesburg Stockade
Throughout the summer of 1963, record numbers of young people in Americus, Georgia, were arrested for joining the Civil Rights Movement. As the local jail filled up, more than 30 girls, ages 11 to 16, disappeared when authorities took them to an out-of-town stockade where their families couldn't find them.
Heather E. Schwartz, author of Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade, discusses the brutal conditions at the makeshift jail, how the girls were found and freed, and how she found survivors willing to share their stories.
Online or in-person, includes visuals via PowerPoint presentation.
"Heather Schwartz is a true journalist. Her slide presentation reveals the detailed, step-by-step process she embarked upon that ultimately revealed the true nature of this horrific crime. Heather's book sheds light on the incarceration of innocent young girls, a tragic part of our history that sadly, until now, too few people knew about." - Diane Forden
Let's Pretend We're Auditioning for SNL!
Only a small percentage of people get to experience actual Saturday Night Live auditions. And why should they get all the fun? This workshop is exactly what it sounds like: a chance to make believe we're auditioning for Lorne Michaels himself!
Heather E. Schwartz is a performer and author with decades of experience in front of audiences large and small. She has appeared on E! Entertainment's True Hollywood Story; delivered her school assembly program, Love Yourself More, to groups of up to 500 students; and prepped for a live interview on CNN, only to be bumped at the last second by Queen Elizabeth II.
2.5 hour program/onsite/up to 10 particpants
