Communication specialist, Lisa B.
Marshall helps
organizations and individuals to share, present, and discuss ideas in a
compelling, concise and cost effective manner.
Lisa has background and experience in technology, science and adult
education and has been delivering communication programs for over a
dozen years. Services include seminars, workshops and consulting in areas such as
public speaking, professional networking, conflict management and social media.
A sample listing of her institutional clients includes Johns Hopkins Medicine, Stanford
University, Harvard University, Genentech Inc, NY Academy of Science,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and University of
Pennsylvania. However, she also works one-on-one with
professionals, at all levels, in both industry and
academia.
She is host and creator of an I-Tunes Top 100 internet radio program titled "The Public Speaker" which is part of Macmillan's Quick and Dirty Tips Network.
This free educational podcast program offers fun, friendly, practical
advice for improving workplace communication skills.
She has been actively involved with social media for the past several years. She recently completed a multimedia product Expert Presenter
which is a six-week intensive online public speaking eCourse for
biomedical professionals. In addition, she writes two active
blogs, The Art of Speaking Science and The Art of Speaking Business.
For the past two years, she has been involved with the organization of
PodCamp Philly a social media
"unconference." Although the conference helps professionals to
understand and
implement Web 2.0 technologies (including podcasts and blogs), Lisa
believes that storytelling, interactivity, and presentation quality are
most important.
She has a BS from Drexel University and dual concentration MA in
organizational communication and interpersonal/intercultural
communication from the State University at Albany.
Lisa is passionate
about communication and she believes these skills are critical to
personal, professional, and organizational success.
"There
is no one else that comes close to her quality
of presentation and the depth of knowledge that she has...we can't
image finding anyone else of equal quality..." Click to
listen.
One day--a long time ago, my boss Jane, called me into her office to
give me a bit of advice. She told me, "Lisa, you are just too
passionate!" She went on, but all I heard was "blah, blah,
blah,
blah, blah" (remember the teacher on the Charlie Brown cartoons?).
I
thought to myself...WHAT?? Is she nuts?
It is IMPOSSIBLE to be TOO passionate.
This was one of the things I was absolutely certain
about.
By example, John had taught me just how important it is to share
passion and inspire others. You see, when
I met John
he was terminally ill. He had become HIV+ from
infected
blood products yet was NEVER negative or sour about his
situation. In fact, John was dying from a horrible disease
yet he
was the most alive person that I have ever met. That's why I
married him.
He was full of zeal. Maybe you've met someone like
this.
He was the kind of person that naturally attracts other people-like a
magnet. His passion was contagious and he inspired me to find
my
passion and share it with others.
I felt deeply (and still do) that communication was perhaps the most
important skill for professional and personal success so I decided on a
masters degree in communication with a double concentration:
interpersonal /intercultural and organizational. During those
years I received not only a formal education from the university, but also, through John, I was getting an informal education in
communication and passion.
Eventually, John died.
I was sad, but I never lost my passion for communication. In
fact, the day Jane told me I was "too passionate " I was working as a
director of corporate training. I knew at that very moment that
I
needed to make a change.
I decided to slowly build this business, part-time, as I continued to
work full-time in training and sales engineering. (Like
others, I got sucked into the tech boom and was a director of sales of
engineering for Portal Software and Apogee
Networks).
However, in 2001, it was time to devote myself full
time to my passion. From public speaking, to teambuilding, to conflict
management, I knew I wanted to help people to improve their ability to
share, present, and discuss ideas in a compelling,
cost-effective
and concise manner.
Since then, I have been growing the business; each year getting bigger
and bigger (and hopefully better). My focus has been on
scientific, technical and
business professionals because I like working with
smart, passionate leaders. Although I am very pleased with my
prestigious client list, I
am most proud of the enthusiastic feedback. I love it when
individual clients land their dream
job, receive a promotion, secured funding, or receive enthusiastic
compliments on their speaking skills. I am equally happy when
institutions tell me that my programs are consistently the number
one ranked of all the programs they offer and I am even
happier when they report subsequent improvement. The
success of my clients is what inspires me
to
continue to share my passion.
That brings me to up-to-date. Today, I continue to be
passionate
about my business and three big
additions
to my life-- my husband, Armando, and my identical twin daughters, Ariana and Daniela.
I'm also passionate about photography, about the Spanish
language, and perhaps most importantly I'm passionate
about life.
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