Speeches

Speeches

The UnSpoken Rules of the Game

Feeling overlooked, ignored, or invisible at work? If you've ever secretly wonder what you're doing to sabotage your own career, or why others enjoy all the lucky breaks - it's time you learned Deb Sofield's, "Unspoken Rules of the Game."

In this lively discussion, Deb Sofield examines the five foundational bad habits that keep women from realizing their potential. You'll laugh a lot and learn more as you:

If you're ready to take charge, be noticed and move up, join Deb Sofield and change the course of your career!

Time: 1.5 hours

Public Speaking Skills for the Professional

Because you never get a second chance to make a first impression, Executive Speech Coach Deb Sofield shows you how to win your audience from "hello!"

This experienced politician and savvy businesswoman has faced aggressive editorial boards, hostile political opponents, indifferent customers, and an audience of thousands - inspiring all with her entertaining and information-packed presentations on success and leadership.

Deb knows all the tricks of the trade and shares them with you! Whether you're making a critical presentation before city council, trying to land that perfect job, or making that big speech, one session with Deb Sofield will leave you filled with self-confidence and your next audience wanting more!

Time: 1-3 hours or Full Day

Misfits, Mavericks, Renegades & Rascals

(Good luncheon or after dinner talk)

History is chock full of leaders who started out as losers…loners…or laggards.

But when their time came, they answered destiny call.

And in many cases, changed the course of our lives.

In this powerful message on leadership, Executive Speech Coach Deb Sofield delivers one of her most insightful and sought after presentations on the essence of leadership drawing from real-life examples and lessons from history.

Deb examines the common characteristics that all dynamic leaders share and leaves today's leaders with important tips for leaving a lasting legacy.

Leaders answered the call and so too, changed the fates of countries, companies and people.

Hear the stories of those who have gone before and left a legacy we all know.

Time: Luncheon 20 minutes or Dinner 40 minutes

5 C's of a Successful Political Campaign

Money, Politics & Media in the 21st Century. To run for Public Office today it takes 5 C's. Cash, Contrast, Conviction, Communication, and Color.

Come and learn from those who have both risen to great victory and fallen in defeat. Learn and understand the skills, actions and attitudes needed to win your next campaign. Of all the useless books written on how to run for public office (by well meaning pontificators who have never run themselves) come and meet one who has run and won. This seminar lays it on the line - no holes barred - no chads hanging. Prepare for battle.

Time: 1 -3 hours

3 Bones

(Good luncheon or after dinner talk)

In science class you learn that when you were born your body had 300 bones. And as you grew some of these bones began to fuse together and the amazing result is as an adult you now have 212 bones. As important as all those bones are, I have found that in life you really only need 3 bones. Come learn the life value of your 3 most important bones.

Time: 20 minutes

A Place Called No Permission

It's a spot reserved almost exclusively for women - created by women who don't recognize the ways they're sabotaging their own careers.

It's called, "No Permission" and because Executive Speech Coach Deb Sofield has spent years shining light into the dark corners of No Permission - you no longer have to spend a single second there any longer!

Escape from No Permission with Deb Sofield! Call Deb today and let her show you how to revive a stalled career and tap into your boundless potential!

Time: 1 hour

15 Rules for the Road

Fear of public speaking is the number one phobia in the nation, according to Advertising & Marketing News' Book of Lists. Yet there is probably no business skill more important than the ability to speak to an audience of any size.

The rules in business are changing and this refresher course is all you need to bring you up-to-date on what works in today's marketplace. Join Deb Sofield and re-learn at least 15 Rules for the road that will keep your audience awake as you make your next presentation a success.

Time: 1 hour

Putting Advocacy into Action - 10 Tips

Remember what Tip O'Neal taught us…that all politics is local…and today that is more true than ever. Times have changed with the advent of email, fax and wireless and the general warp speed of daily life. We are more connected than ever and if you are out of the loop it could cost you an election, cost your town precious funds, and harm your district.

You are in the driver's seat, so do your town a favor and monitor what gets done on the federal, state and local level… and make sure what you are expecting is really getting done and not just being given lip service. Come and learn how to put advocacy into action.

Time: 1 hour

Swear, Steal, Cheat & Drink

(This is a talk for youth)

Parents beware: this talk is not for you!

Starting tonight… I want to encourage every teen to take a walk on the wild side….throw caution to the wind…let your hair down… lighten up and have fun… forget the rules… from this day forward and every day for the rest of your life Deb is going to teach you how to how to swear, how to steal, how to cheat and how to drink….

Executive Speech Coach (and former successful teenager) Deb Sofield is going to rearrange those four bad habits to give you a fighting chance for a great life.

Time: 30 minutes

Lesson from the Geese

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another. Sometimes we get so focused on our own roles that we forget the common purposes - caring for one another.

Join Deb Sofield for a simple reminder of what we're all striving for… to connect, to care, to encourage others at our best and highest level - come learn from nature how to direct your own path for success.

Time: 20 minutes

The Art of the Interview

Because you never get a second chance to make a first impression, get it right the first time - every time - using the Sofield Strategy.

Deb Sofield custom designs her job interview strategies to meet your individual personality. Let Deb give you the techniques to speak with confidence and credibility while ditching those nervous habits that turn off potential employers.

Body language speaks volumes. And with a little help from Deb, your body language will send a message of empowerment, skill and positive self-image!

Dress, mannerism, poise - Deb covers it all in this seminar for up-and-coming corporate professionals ready to take on the world!

From the moment you walk into a room, until the time you leave, let Deb Sofield show you how to win that dream job.

Time: 50 minutes

Five Words Women Should Never Use in Business

There is power in your words, value in your voice: if you know how to tap into your potential!

In this important seminar just for women, Executive Speech Coach Deb Sofield teaches women just like you how to command respect at the workforce using the force of language.

With the Sofield Strategy you'll learn how to "talk the talk" and level the playing field between you and your male colleagues, build instant credibility for yourself, and how to make a world-class presentation - whether it's a sales pitch to your boss or speaking to an audience of hundreds!

If you're ready to get started on the path to success and learn the five words you should never say in business, give Deb Sofield a call today!

Time: 40 minutes

The Value of Your Voice

There's a lot of truth to the old adage, "Sometimes it's not so much what you say, it's how you say it."

Most of us don't realize how much power we have simply in our voices - how we use them, how we fail to use them.

In this powerful seminar, Executive Speech Coach Deb Sofield offers new insight on how to use our voices wisely - to truly think not just about what we say but as importantly how we say it.

What does your voice say about you?

Does it send a message of force and strength or are you just another whisper in the clatter around you?

Are you being overlooked because of what you're saying or because of how you're saying it?

Can you confidently defend yourself and your organization verbally from a hostile audience? Can you present a persuasive and passionate point of view?

Spend an hour with Deb Sofield, look and sound like a leader, and learn the Value of Your Voice!

Time: 45 minutes or 60 with audience participation

Your Campaign Speech - how to wake them up and give you money

In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, elected leaders and candidates for office need to be savvier than ever.

From fundraising, to command of the issues, debate and speech prep - to appearing at ease with the media and constituents alike - today's politicians need to present the total package to impact a mostly uninformed, uninterested and unresponsive public.

As an Executive Speech Coach, winning politician and successful businesswoman, Deb Sofield knows that burden increases on the female candidate who also has to justify to a skeptical public why she wants to hold public office.

That's why Deb has developed her Sofield Campaign Strategy specifically for women. In this custom tailored program, Deb helps each client identify the reasons she's seeking office. Deb then uses that as a base to develop a strategic communication package to help you sell your message to voters, the media and for use in speech, editorial boards, and debate prep.

Deb's strategy includes important techniques for building a political platform on serious issues and ideas, fundraising, and dealing with negative opposition.

A few sessions with Deb Sofield and you will be running a campaign for the history books - a winning campaign defined by you - not by your opposition or the media.

Call Deb today to get started on the path to victory!

Time: 1 - 3 hours

Media Savvy Presentations - New Media for an Old Audience

Today's top executives have a lot more in common than mastering the boardroom and the bottom line.

The most elite in the field - those we read and hear about - have learned the art of mastering the media.

They have no other choice.

In our high-tech, high-speed, media age of the Internet, blogs, DirecTV, Tivo and 24-hour, up-to-the-minute news cycles, either you move quickly and decisively to define yourself, your product, and your company - or you allow others to define you.

But with the right tools and a little savvy, you can master the media and have it work for you!

Let Executive Speech Coach, winning politician and successful business-owner Deb Sofield, show you how to craft a meaningful message - and keep one step ahead of a frenetic media in her cutting-edge seminar for busy executives.

In Deb's Media Savvy Presentations, leaders like you will learn to view the media not as an adversary but as an ally in promoting your product, your message and your point-of-view.

Using the Sofield Strategy, you'll learn how to craft a message that will resonate with skeptical reporters and their audiences, build a rapport with live audiences, and connect with the camera during a videotaped interview.

If you're ready to take your leadership skills and your company to the next level, mastering media strategy that will leave people talking - call Deb Sofield today!

Time: 1 - 3 hours

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