Do you have brilliant ideas you want to share with your Executive Director or Leadership Team but don’t have the nerve to start the dialogue?  How do you even start the conversation with your supervisor about a raise or development in your current position?  Once you begin the exchange, how do you make sure you are clear and precise about your needs?    

Whether you’re currently employed, actively searching or determining your next move – its obvious we could all use new tips and confidence while advocating for our professional selves. 

During our July Professional Development Workshop, you will leave with…

• Confidence in asking for what you want in the workplace
• An ability to clearly communicate your professional needs
• Ideas and tactics on how to persuade change in your organization

All of YNPN San Diego’s programs are free to its members, but there is a cost to coordinate these events, bring high-quality programs to the membership, and serve as a reliable and high-quality organization. Your donations will help to ensure that YNPN San Diego can continue to meet these demands. Please consider making a donation online, through our Facebook Cause or at the event. Individuals who donate at the Workshop will be eligible for a gift from our generous in-kind supporters. The recommended donation for this event is $25.

We will also have a drawing for a special gift from YNPN San Diego and one of our partners, so make sure to bring your business card. Those who make a donation will be in the running for a drawing for one of our fantastic gifts. This event is open to everyone, so please spread the word by forwarding this email!

As always, feel free to bring information for the Community Table about your organization, but please pick up your materials following the event or they will be recycled.

Schedule:

• 5:30 - 6:00 Networking
• 6:00 - 8:00 Workshop facilitated by Jenni Prisk of Prisk Communication
• 8:00 - 8:30 Networking

About the facilitator, Jenni Prisk from Prisk Communication

An award-winning, international motivational speaker, communications coach and trainer, Jenni Prisk founded Prisk Communication in 1990.  Her mission is to provide comprehensive and outstanding training in public speaking and communication skills that will remove the associated risk and fears, engendering confidence, effectiveness and positive results.

Jenni works with companies and individuals in diverse aspects of communication.  A native of New Zealand, she holds a Diploma in Adult Teaching and is qualified as a Human Relations and Communications Instructor for the New Zealand Marriage Guidance Council.  She also has a Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College of London England.

Jenni has served as both opening speaker and keynote for several national business conferences.  She is a frequently requested speaker on a variety of topics, including “There Is No ‘I’ in Team,” “Vocal Vim, Vigor and Vitality,” “Women as Leaders” and “Polish your Public Performance.” Jenni has been the opening speaker for former Governor Ann Richards at a women’s conference. In collaboration with P.R.I.D.E. Inc. Jenni developed a public speaking and communications course for developmentally disabled adults.

Her diverse background includes working in the newspaper industry where she received four writing awards, two from the San Diego Press Club.  She wrote and produced 70+ commentaries and interviews for KPBS Radio, and also won awards. In 1994, she received the San Diego Business Journal’s Award for Women Who Mean Business, and was nominated in 2000.  In 1995, Jenni was a finalist in Bank of America’s first Enterprise Award Program, as well as an honoree in the Women Together Awards.  In 1999, she was honored as a regional finalist in Working Woman magazine’s first Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Program.

In May, 2006, Jenni received a Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center (WIC). In March, 2008, Jenni received a Community Leader Award from the UCSD Student-Run Free Dental Clinic Project. Jenni Prisk is a co-author of ASTD’s Trainer’s Workshop Series Communication Skills Training, published December, 2004. She is a contributing author to Living a Life of Value, published 2006.

Jenni is chair of the board of the Actors Alliance of San Diego; a Faculty member of USD’s Non Profit Leadership & Management Program, and Advisor to the San Diego Shakespeare Society.

An avid volunteer, Jenni has given time and energy to many local charities including Mama’s Kitchen, the YWCA, the Old Globe Theatre, and Nonprofit Management Solutions.  She frequently anchors KPBS TV San Diego fundraisers, and has interviewed numerous guests who include Dr. Ken Blanchard, Sarah Brightman, Paul Anka, JohnTesh, Patti LuPone and Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Jenni writes a weekly column, Behind the Scenes for SDTheatreScene.com.  For 10 years she has been reading weekly to first graders at Cadman Elementary School, in San Diego.

Jenni conceived and co-produced Artists for Asia where she and a fellow actor assembled a band of theater professionals who performed a benefit performance at the Lyceum Theatre for victims of the 2004 Tsunami.

Following the September 11^th terrorist attacks in 2001, Jenni founded Voices of Women (VOW), an international forum for non-military solutions, to foster global peace, justice and equality around the world.  For more information, please visit www.voicesofwomen.org.

Jenni resides with her husband, Kim, in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego.