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FRESH Speakers Academy is a digital training program on the art and business of public speaking and thought leadership.It’s simple: The most impactful leaders are highly effective communicators. Being able to skillfully share your story and work is one of the most powerful ways you can support the issues you lead and champion.About the AcademyFRESH Speakers Academy is a 6-month long training program that follows the arc of developing a successful public speaking practice. Our goal isn’t just to teach you how to be a great public speaker — but also how to build out a vibrant thought leadership practice. Teaching someone how to speak on a stage has little real world impact if you don’t know how to get on it, and know what to ask for once you’re there. What you get in your membershipThe program includes three core components:
Other perks include becoming part of our powerful community of changemakers, peer coaching sessions, monthly conversation series, and more. About the teamWe are FRESH Speakers, a speakers bureau with the mission of creating more inclusion and equity in thought leadership. We have curated and coached for over a dozen high profile institutions across the globe, like The Obama Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Sundance Institute, and have coached many main stage TED speakers, with cumulative views exceeding 50 million. FRESH has a deep bench of experienced coaches and facilitators, the majority of them BIPOC+, who have vibrant careers communicating about everything from transgender rights to travel culture to land repatriation. Lucky us. Now lucky you. How to know if the Academy is for youApplications are now open to a select number of institutional partners for the Class of 2023. Ideal partners are social change organizations, foundations, and companies that host fellowship, grantee, or leadership development programs and think this opportunity would be beneficial for the leaders you support. |