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• Summer Social: The Speaker's Income Lab: Many Roads to Making Money Speaking

  • When
    Friday, August 15, 2025
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016
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    51

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  Summer Social: The Speaker's Income Lab: Many Roads to Making Money Speaking

  
  

  No cost to members. Non-members $30.00. No guest passes. 

  
  

  Think the only way to make money speaking is by landing a keynote? Think again. The truth is, today’s most successful speakers are creating thriving, long-term businesses by exploring multiple revenue streams—all grounded in their ability to speak with impact.
  

  Join us for The Speaker’s Income Lab, a high-energy, myth-busting panel featuring seasoned pros who’ve built lasting careers through diverse paths like training, podcasting, consulting, coaching, keynoting, and more.

  
  

  You’ll hear real talk from experts like:

  Mike Goldman, leadership team coach and best-selling author

  Jan Wallen, consultant and sales strategist for high-fee experts

  Robyn Hatcher, communications expert and sought-after speaker on presence and influence

  Whether you're new to the speaking world or looking to expand your business model, this event will show you that there are many roads to making money and  staying in the game for the long haul is absolutely possible.
  

  Come get inspired, connected, and equipped to grow your speaking business—your way.

  
  

  About Our Emcee

  Angelica Malin is a professional emcee, awards host and moderator based in New York. As The Engagement Emcee, Angelica brings her signature energy and dynamism to transform live events into unforgettable experiences worldwide.

  With a portfolio of over 150 events emceed globally, Angelica has worked with many organisations to enhance their live events, from Fortune 500 companies to tech start-ups. Most recently, she has hosted conferences for Infosys (Infosys AI Day 2024), Global Trade Review (GTR US 2024), Unilever (Dirt is Good 2024 Summit) and the United Nations, and moderated panels for AllBright, Soho House and AdWeek.

  As a skilled moderator, Angelica has moderated panels and fireside conversations with an impressive array of Senior Executives and CEOs, including Mastercard, Edgeverve, Virgin Atlantic and SoulCycle, and celebrities including NFL stars, Cherie Blair, Jamie Laing and Trinny Woodall. Angelica is a specialist on moderating conversations around tech, the future of work, ai, financial services and information technology. Angelicas has over 100 recommendations on LinkedIn and is one of the most sought-after emcees in North America.

  
  

  About Our Speakers:

  Mike Goldman is a leadership team coach and author of Breakthrough Leadership Team, Performance Breakthrough and, soon to be released, The Strength of Talent.

  He’s a TEDx speaker and speaks internationally to groups of business leaders, such as IBM, All State, Vistage, the Woman Presidents Organization, TEC Canada and the Entrepreneur’s

  Organization.During his 35 year coaching and consulting career he has worked

  with clients including Disney, Verizon, CHANEL and Polo Ralph Lauren. His insights have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and Chief Executive Magazine. He’s also the host of the Better Leadership Team Show.

  Jan Wallen combines her years of experience as a corporate account executive, professional speaker and sales mentor for Fortune 500 companies  so B2B consultants, coaches and speakers can raise their fees as much as 25% with confidence. 

  Where to start? As Jan says, “When you talk about outcomes, your income goes up.”

  Robyn Hatcher is a keynote speaker and communication expert who brings a unique blend of experience and insight to her work. As a soap opera writer for All My Children and One Life to Live, and an actor for TV, commercials and theatre, she once created drama for a living. Now, she’s passionate about helping organizations and individuals reduce drama in their workplaces and lives.

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• Members Only Mastermind: Facilitated Peer Insights & Advice for Speaking and Business Growth

  • When
    Friday, August 22, 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)

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  Register today for our members only 60-minute virtual Mastermind sessions, facilitated by Robyn Hatcher, CSP.
  

  These sessions provide members with peer-to-peer insights aimed at solving problems, offering feedback, advice, and access to resources, all geared towards helping them improve as speakers and build stronger businesses. Mark your calendars with the sessions listed below. 

  Why should you attend? By participating, you’ll tap into the power of collective intelligence through collaborative discussions and shared experiences. This environment fosters a unique opportunity for support and feedback, helping you to refine ideas and strategies. Additionally, the Masterminds offer a structure for accountability, encouraging you to set and achieve personal and professional goals. Networking opportunities are a plus, allowing you to connect with other speakers.

  Please be prepared to: Ask a specific question, share a challenge or a goal. Test a new story. Receive feedback on an idea. Share a new resource and/or a lesson learned. And, above all bring abundant generosity.

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• Chapter Meeting: The Champion’s Code: How to Generate Momentum and Grow Your Speaking Business Through Good Times and Bad with Ross Bernstein

  • When
    Friday, September 12, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Scandinavia House 58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016

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  The Champion’s Code: How to Generate Momentum and Grow Your Speaking Business Through Good Times and Bad with Ross Bernstein

  Best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, Ross speaks at more than 120 events each year and has even keynoted conferences on all seven continents. As a solopreneur, he has built a million-dollar lifestyle business with no employees or assistants, allowing him to travel the world nonstop with his wife and daughter. With keynotes as his sole focus—no additional profit centers—Ross is laser-focused on booking gigs. In this session, he’ll pull back the curtain and reveal the inside secrets of how he built his business through authentic relationship-building, negotiating win-win deals, and doing things very differently.

  
  

  In this session you will discover:

  • Innovative ways to give and receive referrals, not just to your fellow speakers, but to your clients.
  • How to leverage video testimonials, philanthropy, and social media in order to grow your business.
  • Ideas on creative negotiations in order to find “Value” when clients don’t have your “full fee.”
  • Methods to be more creative in your sales pitches, your customization, and how to create “slump-busters” in order to keep your calendar full.
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• Chapter Meeting: Speak Easy Everywhere: How to Grow Your Speaking Brand Across Every Medium with Lou Diamond

  • When
    Friday, October 10, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016
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    110

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  Speak Easy Everywhere: How to Grow Your Speaking Brand Across Every Medium with Lou Diamond
  

  
  

  If you are a first time guest to our chapter meetings, you can use our discount code at checkout to attend at no cost. Discount Code: FIRSTNSANYC

  
  

  Today’s most successful speakers don’t just own the stage—they own every channel (and make more money doing it). Join connection expert and Speak Easy author Lou Diamond as he shares how to position your speaking business across social media, podcasts, YouTube, reels, and beyond. Learn how to connect, engage, and grow your brand—and your income—across the platforms that matter most.

  
  

  About Lou Diamond

  Lou Diamond is an energetic, humorous, and inspirational speaker, business development strategist, and performance mentor. With over 25 years of experience, he has delivered winning tactics that have helped leading performers and companies around the world increase their results. 

  
  

  As the CEO of THRIVE, Lou is dedicated to helping brands become even more amazing through the power of meaningful connection. He is also the host of the top-rated Thrive LOUD podcast, where he shares insights and interviews with influential voices across industries. 

  
  

  When he’s not on stage or behind the mic, Lou enjoys watching his kids grow up (far too quickly), obsessing over his struggling sports teams, listening to country music, and playing a self-proclaimed “not-so-great” round of golf. If you or your organization are looking to build the right connections to achieve your business goals, Lou Diamond is the person to help you make it happen.

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• Chapter Meeting: Huge IMPROVment: Lessons from the World of Professional Comedy and Improv to Improve Your Program and How You Deliver It with Pat Dwyer

  • When
    Friday, November 14, 2025
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016
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    112

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  Huge IMPROVment: Lessons from the World of Professional Comedy and Improv to Improve Your Program and How You Deliver It with Pat Dwyer

  
  

  If you are a first time guest to our chapter meetings, you can use our discount code at checkout to attend at no cost. Discount Code: FIRSTNSANYC

  
  

  In this interactive session, participants will discover the science behind what actually makes audiences laugh. Using the tenets of improv comedy, we will dive into comedic delivery, joke structure, and storytelling to hone your onstage presence and voice. This program is designed to help speakers (of any level) identify opportunities within their current programs to create hysterical connection points with their audiences. Moreover, they will walk away from this program with a robust selection of immediately actionable strategies to up the humor in their existing keynotes, workshops, and training so that they may more effectively connect with their audience time and time again. Boosting their hire-ability, all while laughing their buns off.

  
  

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  
  

  - Amplify their unique ability to connect with their audience.

  - Uncover the skills to make their audience experience feel like a unique

  experience.

  - Understand the tenets of improv comedy and how they can be applied to

  our work as Speakers.

  - Acquire new ways to connect with their audience.

  - Entertain at a higher level.

  About Pat Dwyer

  Pat Dwyer is your most engaging route to people-driven results. As a keynote speaker, emcee, creative consultant, and humorist, Pat brings a unique blend of energy, insight, and humor to every audience he serves. His journey began unexpectedly—after a near-death experience as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, Pat found a new life path as a professional comedian. Over the past 15 years, he has performed, toured, and taught with renowned institutions such as The Second City, iO Theater, ComedySportz, and Mi Productions.

  Through all his experiences on stage and off, Pat discovered his greatest inspiration: the power of levity and a "YES" mentality to transform corporate cultures, leadership teams, and front-line performers. His work helps organizations rediscover the joy and effectiveness that come from embracing positivity and connection in day-to-day practices.

  Today, Pat channels these lessons into high-impact, high-energy keynotes, workshops, and sessions that inspire everyone—from the C-suite to the front line—to approach each day with excitement, resilience, and a playful drive toward achieving their goals. With Pat, organizations don't just learn how to improve—they learn how to thrive with heart, humor, and purpose.

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• Chapter Meeting: Supercharge Your Storytelling with Susan Lindner

  • When
    Friday, January 09, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016
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  Supercharge Your Storytelling with Susan Lindner
  

  
  

  If you are a first time guest to our chapter meetings, you can use our discount code at checkout to attend at no cost. Discount Code: FIRSTNSANYC

  
  

  Every speaker today is confronting audiences that want or have to change, but are resistant to it. We share incredible content that energizes rooms, but how do we get them to truly buy-in and say YES! By using the Innovation Storytelling method, speakers can pitch their own programs and get their audiences to envision a new future without fear.  Participants will learn how to tell better stories that engage and align key stakeholders, get audiences on board with their vision, and deliver maximum, lasting impact.
  

  The audience will leave with:

  - A clear understanding of how to get other people on board with their breakthrough ideas.

  - A blueprint for creating stories that inspire any audience into action.

  - A process that empowers them to communicate with confidence.

  
  

  About Susan Lindner
  

  Susan Lindner is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Storytellers, a leading innovation storytelling consulting firm. She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, workshop leader, messaging strategist, storytelling coach, and the world’s leading expert on innovation storytelling.

  Susan draws from her initial experiences as an anthropologist and international aid worker in rural Thailand in the 1990s, where she shared stories that helped at-risk populations disproportionately affected by AIDS to slow the virus’ spread. Today, as a 20-year communications expert, she is committed to using those same storytelling skills to inspire innovation leaders everywhere to become incredible storytellers and ensure that their innovations get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve.

  Susan is the host of Innovation Storytellers, a weekly podcast that takes the mystery out of how to communicate breakthrough ideas to the people who matter most. Every week, Susan interviews top global innovation leaders from companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Cisco, Corning, and Tesla about the stories that moved their innovations past the boardroom, lab, and production line and into our everyday lives.

  Susan speaks at global conferences, consulates, and trade organizations. She has worked with C-level leaders and teams from over 60 countries at Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, AT&T, Arm & Hammer on their innovation storytelling strategies. The result? Those innovation leaders become incredible storytellers who go on to change the world. Susan is driven to ensure every breakthrough idea reaches its finish line through powerful stories that connect to every listener and power that brilliant idea forward.

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• Chapter Meeting: Amplify Your Speech Elevate Your Business with Elizabeth McCormick

  • When
    Friday, February 13, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    58 Park Ave New York, NY 10016
  • Spaces left
    112

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  AMPLIFY YOUR SPEECH ELEVATE YOUR BUSINESS with ELIZABETH MCCORMICK

  
  

  If you are a first time guest to our chapter meetings, you can use our discount code at checkout to attend at no cost. Discount Code: FIRSTNSANYC

  
  

  Tired of writing and rewriting your speeches? Do you find yourself going back to the drawing board every single time a meeting planner calls and asks, “Do you speak about…?”
  

  In this high-performance presentation, sought-after motivational speaker Elizabeth McCormick will deconstruct and dissect her introduction, opening, and one of her signature messages to reveal the speechwriting strategies that keep her booked for an average of 100 paid events each year—without constantly rewriting her speech.

  Strategy should be Elizabeth’s middle name! She’ll answer your questions, provide her personal speech template along with real-world examples, and you’ll even walk away with a bonus gift to help you amplify your business.

  Key Takeaways:
  • Discover the three key elements to creating your most impactful opening
  • Learn how to craft your introduction so that the emcee, meeting planner, or executive seeds the audience with your desired outcome before you even step on stage
  • Gain a new perspective on speechwriting through Elizabeth’s tried-and-true philosophy of smart customization—plus receive the exact template she uses to quickly tailor her signature speech for hundreds of audiences

  About Elizabeth McCormick

  Elizabeth McCormick, former Black Hawk helicopter pilot for the US Army, served when less than 1% of Military pilots were women. As a decorated pilot, she flew numerous missions as a Chief Warrant Officer, including United Nations peacekeeping, air assault, command and control, VIP, multi-ship, and top-secret military intelligence missions.

  She earned numerous awards for her service in the military including the Meritorious Service Medal. In 2011, Elizabeth was honored with the US Congressional Veteran Commendation for her community service as a military veteran.

  Elizabeth is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, recently named #13 on the list of top 30 motivational speakers in the world by Global Gurus and listed as #5 on the list of Leadership Experts to follow online.

  She is also a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP), and Certified Virtual Host (CVH). Elizabeth has earned certifications from the Maxwell Leadership program: Certified Team Member, Executive Director, and Corporate Facilitator. In 2001 Elizabeth was added to the Faculty of the Maxwell Leadership program.

  As a prolific author, she has sold more than 40,000 copies of her personal development book, "The P.I.L.O.T. Method: The 5 Elemental Truths to Leading Yourself in Life". Her 20th book, "Just FLY: Personal Leadership in Turbulent Times" is due out later in 2025. Drawing from her experience as a corporate manager and award-winning sales consultant, she has authored over 18 books in her tip book series, "Soar 2 Success", on a variety of leadership, business, and entrepreneurial topics.

  Elizabeth has been seen on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, CW, News Nation, MSNBC, NBC, TMZ, (and many more) and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, London Times, and other global publications in Australia, Japan, and Brazil as an authority on military and leadership issues with the media.

  Elizabeth resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and is a road warrior traveling the World energizing Conventions, Conferences, Corporations, Associations and Organizations specializing in Motivation, Leadership, Sales and Safety events with an occasional Awards Banquet speech mixed in.

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