Speak Up and Get Ahead
Speak Up and Get Ahead, a communications workshop series presented by Laura Anne Ewald and Mary Beth Magee, offers participants skills to take to the real world. In today’s technology driven world, accurate and succinct communications play a critical role in our lives. From getting a job to keeping a job to excelling in a job, our communications skills can help our cause or cripple our efforts.
In a six-session series, two experienced communicators/trainers will share tips and secrets for improving various aspects of those skills. Laura Anne Ewald and Mary Beth Magee lead and facilitate sessions on these topics:
Job Interviewing and Social Media Use
Sales – Communicating to Meet Their Needs
Public Speaking – Make Your Case to Listeners
Storytelling and Interpretive Reading
Faith-based Speaking and Testimony
Networking and Continued Growth as a Speaker
We can bring any of these sessions, or all of them, to your group. Let us help your students, workforce or other organization achieve the next level by enhancing their communication skills.
Contact Mary Beth Magee at info@BOTRPress.com for pricing and availability.
The Instructors
Laura A. Ewald, author, editor, and public speaker, worked thirteen years as a university librarian, first at Murray State University (Murray, KY) and then at Greenville College (now University, Greenville, IL). As a Reference/Instruction Librarian, Ms. Ewald taught research strategies at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels and did her own research and writing for professional and scholarly publications.
Her work history began with an interview that got her a job as a Park Aide with the Washington State Parks right out of high school and has included employment ranging from office assistant, computer graphics, and product research to a brief stint in the Peace Corps and a summer as a camp business manager, to a newsletter editor and secretary before settling down as a library faculty member, where she sat on multiple search committees for new hires. Ms. Ewald holds degrees in Classical Studies, Drama, Library Science, and Organizational Communication, and she brings this eclectic academic background to her current role as a full-time freelancer. A recent happy transplant to the “Deep South,” Ms. Ewald shares her Picayune, Mississippi, home with her elderly parents and an ever-changing assortment of adopted stray cats. To learn more about Ms. Ewald, or to enquire about her public speaking, writing, or editing services, please visit www.LauraAnneEwald.com.
Mary Beth Magee has delivered training in corporate settings for decades. Her students included employees of the telephone company, military contractors and REALTORS®. Her degree in psychology focused on adult learning, and she enjoys employing the tools she learned there to benefit her students. She has worked both as staff and management, and seen communications issues from both sides. As a member of Toastmasters International she earned the Silver Toastmaster designation and served on the Chicago Area Toastmasters Speakers Bureau, the DuPage County Habitat for Humanity Speakers Bureau and the Sisters in Crime Speakers Bureau.
An author, journalist, storyteller and conference speaker, Ms. Magee brings her life experiences to training sessions. She has been a published author since she was ten, writing for newspapers, magazines and church publications. Her first book appearance in 2012 brought her into the world of anthologies and she has appeared in several series, including five Chicken Soup for the Soul™ volumes. In 2014, she published her first fiction book and has since added a second novel, three story collections, three books of devotions and five children’s books as well as five journals. She appears regularly in Southern Senior Magazine and local newspapers. Her speaking engagements take her to schools, churches, libraries and writers’ groups, among others. Visit her website at www.LOL4.net for more on her writings and presentations.