WE'RE EMPOWERING WOMEN
with our Career Success Series

​Public speaking & career workshops for women & girls

Beginning with a listening session where we gathered input from local women, we launched our Career Success Series in the autumn of 2016. Designed to help women succeed both in the workplace and in business as entrepreneurs, we put together monthly workshops led by seasoned local experts, covering topics from honing interviewing skills, negotiating salary, and mentorship to starting a business, the art of networking, and a speed networking event.

Weekend public speaking workshops from the renowned Own the Room organization, a $795 value, were next... and in the autumn of 2018 we launched a Toastmasters Junior group for high school girls. Then, in the spring of 2020, we launched our WE 360 program for black women entrepreneurs to help them take their businesses to the next level... or to start one. The six-week program is specifically designed to help women of color overcome barriers in entrepreneurship. Our first WE 360 program sold out. Stay tuned for more!

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We're holding our next Own the Room workshop on April 25 and May 2. Register online and see more information here!

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​Leadership-building & presentation skills for girls

See photos from the girls' final presentation at our Summer 2019 Toastmasters Junior Art Docent program!

Local high school girls participated in this exciting new summer program. A collaboration between our Toastmasters Junior program and the Gibbes Museum of Art, we introduced them to art and public speaking in a low-stress environment where a friendly facilitator and their peers were their mentors. On June 11 these girls began attending twice-weekly small group workshops designed to expand their knowledge of art and history while boosting their communication and leadership skills. Then they selected a work of art from the Black Refractions: Highlights of the Studio Museum in Harlem and created a tour and presentation to deliver to their family, facilitators, and peers, along with members of the public.

This program was the second in our Toastmasters Jr. series for high school girls. For the first, held in autumn 2018, we collaborated with Art Pot, the first Hispanic multicultural center in South Carolina, to offer a youth leadership and public speaking program. See some of the photos!

In the fall of 2019, we partnered with S. Novie Payne, a licensed clinical therapist who specializes in transforming lives, to put on a series of creative workshop for girls like no other! Girls ages 11-15 were able to learn how to use improv, dance, and other performing arts to build confidence and discover positive solutions to the kinds of problems they may face in school, like peer pressure or bullying. See more details here.

​How you can help

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Tell us what topics you'd most like to hear about on our new podcasting series! Email our executive director, LaVanda Brown. 

​If you have a specialty in business, entrepreneurship, activism, or any other field of interest, consider appearing as a guest on one of our episodes! We welcome your expertise and your passion. Email LaVanda. 

If you have a specialty in business, entrepreneurship, or public speaking, please consider volunteering to speak to our Toastmasters Jr. participants! Sign up here.

OWN THE ROOM
April & May 2020

SEE THE FLYER

Connect with your audience and take your presentation skills to the next level with the help of a seasoned Own the Room executive coach!

These interactive and fun Saturday workshops are designed for women executives and future leaders. 

NOT YOUR TYPICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING COURSE

Own The Room, a world-class organization whose clients have included Facebook, Google, Pandora, and ESPN, offers these workshops to just 20 of Charleston’s women at a time.

​You’ll banish stage fright and come away with both a higher level of executive presence that will make you more memorable and powerful body language that will make your message stronger. 

Click below to register for our next Own the Room workshop, to be held Saturday, April 25 and Saturday, May 2 from 9 AM to 1 PM.

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