Writing and practicing your speech is only part of your preparation. You should also create an introduction for your speech and maybe even an introduction of yourself. We invite our members to create a standard speaker biography, which we will post to our website, to provide the Toastmaster of the Meeting material for preparing a good introduction.

Need some tips? Check out this advice:

A speaker bio is a brief summary of your education, work history and experience that is relevant to your speaking topic (the focus is on brief and relevant). The organization requesting your speaker's bio may specify a format and length. If they don't, follow these speaker bio guidelines:

• Keep your speaker biography brief—no more than 75 to 100 words. Biographies that are too long simply don't get read. Or worse, the organization may summarize your bio in a way that you don't like.
• Include your current position and a brief mention of work history and experience that is relevant to your speaking topic and audience
• Include academic qualifications, awards, and a reference to published work, but only if applicable to the material you are presenting

One more thing: we also invite our members to provide links to their business or causes, or even social networking sites. Similarly, we invite our members to link to this website.