Overview

You just bumped into Elon Musk in an elevator. After saying hello, he asks you who you are and what you do. Before you respond, you panicked and thought, what do I tell him? As you organize your thoughts, you hear a “ding,” which signals that he is about to get off the elevator. If you had prepared an elevator pitch, you would have introduced yourself before he got off.

This workshop will help you develop an “elevator pitch” for extemporaneous opportunities to brand yourself. An elevator pitch is a short, pre-prepared speech that is intended to spark the recipient’s interest in you. You can take advantage of brief encounters to create interest in yourself, a product, an idea, or a project. An elevator pitch should last no longer than 30 seconds, the average length of an elevator ride.

You can use your elevator pitch for your LinkedIn Summary or Twitter Bio. Before you attend the workshop, (1) prepare an elevator pitch for yourself, and (2) create a LinkedIn profile (if you do not already have one).

Speaker Profile

Professor Eddy Ng Professor Professor Ng is a Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour. His research focuses on managing diversity for organizational competitiveness, the changing nature of work and organizations, and managing across generations.  His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grants. He is actively involved in executive education, and he frequently comments on popular media outlets in Canada and the U.S.  He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and an Associate Editor for Personnel Review.  Prior to the academia, he spent 7 years with the TD Bank Financial Group.

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