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Monthly meeting of the Northwest Coaches Association (NWCA)

TIME/DATE
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

– Free pre-meeting workshop from 5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
– Networking from 6:45 p.m - 7:15 p.m.
– VisualsSpeak Program from 7:15 p.m. - 9 p.m.

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP DETAILS
Presenter: Veronika (Ronnie) Noize
Topic: Media Training Workshop
Description: Past President Ronnie Noize presents a shortened version of the Media Training Workshop created by media expert Peter Kerr for the ICF chapters leaders at the 2007 ICF Conference. Participants will learn how to prepare for a media interview, identify journalists’ techniques, tools, and traps, what constitutes “news” as well as practice an actual interview. This program and materials are used by permission of Peter Kerr of Kerr Communications, www.kerrcommunications.com.

Bio: Veronika (Ronnie) Noize, known professionally as The Marketing Coach, is the author of How to Create a Killer Elevator Speech, The Real Magic Bullet of Marketing, and a contributing author of Marketing Strategies that Work. As a marketing executive for over 10 years, Ronnie launched more than 200 consumer products, including software, books, comics, CDs, toys, and games, generating more than $650 million dollars through sales and licensing.

Voted the 2007 Coach of the Year by her chapter of the International Coach Federation, and named one of the Pacific NW’s 100 most influential women by the NW Women’s Journal, Ronnie is a dynamic speaker and sought-after marketing expert with an international clientele who helps small office/home office (SOHO) businesses attract more clients through her presentations, products and programs.

In addition to her busy speaking and coaching practice, Ronnie is a trainer for International Coach Academy, an accredited coach training school in Australia, and an active member of several business and philanthropic groups. In 2004 she founded the Northwest Women’s Virtual Business Network, a virtual space where businesswomen in the Portland/Vancouver area can network and connect with others. Visit her group at http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NWWomensBizNetwork.

Ronnie’s web site is a comprehensive resource with free articles and valuable marketing tools for small office/home office businesses and independent sales professionals. Visit her web site at www.VeronikaNoize.com, or call her at 360-882-1298.

PROGRAM DETAILS
Guest Speaker: Christine Martell, MS
Topic: VisualsSpeak Workshop
Description: Christine Martell, Principal of VisualSpeaks LLC, will present an interactive tool designed to bridge the right and left sides of our brains, making learning faster, more interesting and more effective. Through this experiential process, you will learn how to offer your clients new ways of gaining perspective and insights, and provide them with a richer set of data from which to base critical decisions. See how answering questions through images and pattern can unlock a different set of stories than words alone. These techniques can be used to increase individual or team performance and communication, leading to fast and insightful outcomes.

Bio: Christine Martell is an accomplished consultant, public speaker and artist with more than 25 years of professional experience. The VisualsSpeak tool she developed has been used by corporate trainers, independent consultants, small- and medium-size businesses, global corporations, non-profits, educational institutions, and organizations focused on intercultural communications.

Christine earned a bachelor of fine arts in textiles in 1982 at the Rhode Island School of Design. Over the next decade, she worked primarily as a product artist, exhibiting and attracting awards for her work in a wide variety of venues across the United States.

In 1995, Christine made the transition from a product artist to a process artist, concentrating on helping others to discover the value inherent in the process of creating art. She served as a facilitator at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, where she developed ways to help art students reduce their creative anxiety and counseled them on issues related to classes and student affairs.

Christine earned a master’s degree in education from Portland State University in 2004, where she researched the benefits of visual communication as a training tool. She holds certificates of completion in a variety of training & development topics including intercultural training, multi-media and Web-based training, and management of training.Christine started VisualsSpeak in 2005 as a way of bringing the VisualsSpeak approach to a broad range of audiences. She is passionate about opening up the whole person so people can really be appreciated for who they are, and feels she is throwing life lines to people who really need to discover new openings. You can visit her website at http://www.visualsspeak.com/.

COST: $15 for guests and non-member coaches; free for chapter members and ASTD-Cascadia members.

REGISTRATION:Pre-registration not required

LOCATION
SCOTTISH RITE CENTER, 709 SW 15th Avenue , Portland, OR 97205

Hope to see you there.