Graduate students and postdocs, come and learn how to improve your public speaking skills with Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington, DC. This workshop aims to provide valuable tips and tools to prepare an engaging public speaking professional presentation to share your research, such as a job interview presentation, conference presentation, department seminar, or dissertation defense. This workshop is helpful across disciplines!

This event is open to ALL UMBC students, staff and faculty, it will be hosted online via WebEx.

About our speaker:

Scott Morgan has been teaching leadership and communication for over 30 years. His seminars, workshops, retreats, and private coaching support science institutions, think tanks, universities, corporations, peace and research organizations worldwide. 

With a film and broadcast television background, Scott teaches media and communication strategy. He is a Senior Associate at the Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Scott graduated with honors from the University of California Davis, is an ordained minister, and holds a Master's degree from Columbia University. He authored the book Speaking about Science (2006, Cambridge University Press) and launched a mindfulness app called 3rdi in 2014.  For more about Scott Morgan, click here.

To learn more about Morgan's sessions and clients, click here.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, February 10, at 2 PM via WebEx. Please click on the green button "Going Virtually" and make sure to save this event in your google calendar to access the session.

 

If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact PROMISE staff at promise@umbc.edu.