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WE'RE EMPOWERING WOMEN
with our Own The Room workshops

For many years, we have hosted incredibly effective and popular public speaking workshops from the renowned Own The Room organization.

A $795 value each, they're not your typical public speaking courses! These fun, interactive, and energy-filled weekend and evening workshops help each woman connect with her audience and take her presentation skills to the next level. Participants banish stage fright and come away with both a higher level of executive presence that makes them more memorable and powerful body language that makes their message stronger. They're designed for women executives, women entrepreneurs, and future women leaders. (We gladly include transgender and non-binary too!) 

Own The Room, a world-class organization whose clients have included Facebook, Google, Pandora, and ESPN, offers these workshops to just 25 of Charleston’s women at a time.

We just finished up our 2020-21 Own The Room series, including these evening workshops:

OWN YOUR POWER
CONNECT FIRST
BE MEMORABLE
DYNAMIC DELIVERY
STORYTELLING IN SPEAKING

Stay tuned for our next set of Own The Room workshops!
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​How you can help

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Sponsor an individual woman to attend an Own The Room workshop! Click here.

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Organizations, sponsor our Own The Room program! Email LaVanda, our executive director.

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​Are you a public speaking expert? Donate your skills to our other programs for women and girls. Email Tina, our director of programs. 

Meet your executive coach

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Confident, fluid public speaking and presentation skills are often required to make the leap up the career ladder to senior roles—or to make it at all as an entrepreneur.

You'll take your speaking and presentation skills to the next level with the help of Own The Room coach Mary Jo Romeo. Mary Jo is also a Columbia University certified executive coach bringing decades of valuable corporate experience to her individual, teams and corporate clients so they grow and change in ways they never thought possible, and and has held senior management roles with Johnson & Johnson's Baby Center, The Weather Channel, Working Mother, and more. She was also our 2018 #WhatWomenBring Professional Services award winner!

Own The Room is a global communications training company that lists Delta, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many others as clients.

We need YOU

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PO Box 80935
Charleston, SC 29416
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EMAIL

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  • ELIMINATING RACISM | PROGRAMS
    • MLK CELEBRATION
    • RACIAL EQUITY & INCLUSION >
      • RACIAL EQUITY & INCLUSION | IMPACT
    • STAND AGAINST RACISM
  • EMPOWERING WOMEN | PROGRAMS
    • WHAT WOMEN BRING >
      • WHAT WOMEN BRING | Ticket sales open Oct 13
    • WE 360 | FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF COLOR
    • OWN THE ROOM | PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR WOMEN
    • WOMEN'S HEALTH
    • | EMPOWERING YOUTH |
    • SHESTRONG
    • Y GIRLS CODE
  • ABOUT US
    • SEE OUR MISSION
    • SEE OUR HISTORY
    • MEET OUR STAFF
    • MEET OUR BOARD
    • SEE OUR PARTNERS >
      • SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES | Our partners and other Charleston nonprofits
  • NEWS
    • SEE US IN THE NEWS
    • VIEW OUR E.NEWSLETTERS
    • BE IN THE KNOW: SUBSCRIBE HERE
  • SUPPORT US
    • BECOME A MEMBER
    • RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP
    • VOLUNTEER WITH US
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