Leveraging Laughter in Stories for Connection and Impact
Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE

Hall of Fame speaker Tim Gard is someone who can find the funny almost anywhere and you can too! You will be excited to know that you don't need more stories. You just need to discover how to make your existing stories funnier. You can do that with Tim's three-step process. Discover how to build humor into stories for training events and how to take the humor trainers currently use and make it funnier and have more impact. Why stop when you get a giggle? With a little bit of work a funny story becomes a hilarious signature story that can get you booked again and again. Several participants will have the opportunity to tell a story during the session and have Tim demonstrate his process and help you find the funny in it.

Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE, is a tears-in-your-eyes funny keynote speaker who teaches people how to become more resilient and resourceful as well as coaching businesses on how to enhance employee productivity and enthusiasm. He is a CPAE (Council of Peers Award of Excellence) Hall of Fame Speaker, an elite honor shared by 150 people worldwide, as well as a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional).

Tim has spoken at over 2,000 events worldwide – from Texas to Tasmania – and was selected by Meeting Planners Magazine as one of the “Best speakers ever seen or heard on the main stage.” Tim’s down-to-earth style and real-life humor leaves a lasting impression that you will benefit from for years to come. His skillful use of ordinary items in extraordinary ways and extraordinary items in everyday ways make him one of the most popular main stage speakers on the platform today. During the past two decades, Tim has traveled almost two million miles to perform, is the author of 4 books, and an inventor of stress reduction tools that are marketed & enjoyed worldwide.

NSA Essentials: Rise UP
Simone Spence

Have you ever felt betrayed by someone professionally? Do you want to know how to overcome betrayal in business? Does what come around go around and does it matter?
Do good fences really make good neighbors? What to do when professional betrayal leaves you feeling utterly gutted.

Join Simone Spence as she shares her experience with a professional betrayal that could have destroyed professional relationships that she had been building for years and could have taken down the entire company that she had built her entire career around- and how she decided that she was going to Rise Up above it, succeed and get to the other side, not only despite the experience but because of it.

In Rise UP You’ll Learn

• How to protect your ideas, not just from your competition but from the possible enemies within your organization – partners, employees, contractors…
• How to prevent partnership and employee relationships from turning sour by having strong & secure protections, not because you expect a breech but as good business practice
• Prevent and reduce your risk of IP compromise and theft with NDA’s, copyright, patent, trademark applications…

Simone Spence is an award-winning business owner and leader. She ran a bricks and mortar consulting company for 15 years that she started from a mere idea. Five years ago, she decided to take a pivot from bricks and mortar to clicks and mortar and is now CEO/Founder of tech start-up, Don’t Get Mad Get Paid that soft-launched in December 2018. Look for the hard launch summer of 2019.

Simone is in the middle of a capital raise with seed-level angel-investors and she has been traveling the country pitching and meeting. This non-technical founder of a tech company expects to dominate the tech space for her market. The author of three books – two self-published and one published by a traditional publishing house, Simone runs her business and her life with the motto and way of life that she used to sell 10,000 self-published books in 3 months’ time – “I can make it happen.”

When not working on her business or speaking, you can find Simone curled up reading a good book, enjoying a glass of old-world red wine…and eating pie.

Saturday, May 11, 2019 Schedule:

8:30am – 9:00am 
Coffee and Networking

9:00am – 9:30am
NSA Essentials, Simone Spence

9:30am – 10:00am
Chapter News

10:00am – 10:15am
Break and Networking

10:15am – 12:30pm (with break)
Our Featured Speaker: Tim Gard

FACEBOOK LIVE ACCESS: Subscribers now have the option of watching workshops on Facebook Live from home with either All Access Pass option (guest or national member). Click here for more information.

June 8, 2019

Simon T. Bailey,  MA, CSP, CPAE