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Find Your Voice: Skills and Tips for Public Speaking - Webinar
Where: Webinar/Virtual
When: Tuesday, December 8, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
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Workshop Organizers: Lance Eaton of Northeastern University
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: $45.00
Event Overview
Whether you're presenting to leadership, facilitating a workshop, leading a meeting, or championing a new idea, your ability to communicate effectively can shape your impact. In this interactive webinar, you'll discover practical strategies to overcome common public speaking challenges, build confidence, and adapt your communication style for different audiences and situations. Through engaging exercises and real-world techniques, you'll leave better prepared to speak with authenticity, influence, and executive presence.
Session Outcomes:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:|
- Identify personal barriers to confident public speaking and apply techniques to manage nervousness and communicate with greater confidence.
- Practice proven strategies to improve presentation delivery, audience engagement, and executive presence in a variety of speaking situations.
- Adapt communication approaches to effectively deliver messages in meetings, presentations, workshops, and leadership conversations.
Registration Cancellation Policy:
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Accessibility
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Lance Eaton
Dr. Lance Eaton is the Senior Associate Director of AI in Teaching and Learning at Northeastern University. He has facilitated hundreds of workshops and programs and taught for over 20 years. For the past few years, he has given over 100 talks and keynotes across and beyond higher ed.
He has earned a Master's in American Studies (UMASS Boston), Public Administration (Suffolk University), and Instructional Design (UMASS Boston). He completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education (UMASS Boston) with a focus on academic piracy and how scholars navigate the privatization of research literature in the 21st century. His work engages with the possibility of digital tools for expanding teaching and learning communities while considering the profound issues and questions that educational technologies open up for students, faculty, and higher ed as a whole. He has engaged with scores of higher education institutions about navigating the complexities and possibilities that generative AI represents for us at this moment.