INTERACTIVE

WORKSHOPS that help you stage more

ENGAGING

COMPELLING

PURPOSEFUL

PRODUCTIVE &

ACTIONABLE

meetings

With

Chief Boredom Buster

Andrea Driessen

Let’s go behind the curtain to explore how best practices in content curation, strategic speaker selection and creative audience engagement techniques make events like TED compelling and un-missable.

Workshop 1Radically engaged: Boosting meeting effectiveness with curation, content & choice

Together, we’ll also explore and experience:

• Why “curating” speakers and meeting experiences leads to more exclusive, cutting-edge educational experiences

• Specific tools to turn attendees into participants• How to help delegates connect more deeply to your programming and to each other

to add more value to your events • How to select a memorable line-up of speakers who deliver engaging, relevant messages• How to coach speakers on presentation skills so participants retain and activate content• How choice factors in, and how to smartly and affordably integrate more into your events.

Ideal length: 75-90 minutes

Program is not authorized, sponsored or endorsed by TED Conferences LLC or any of its affiliates.

This workshop earned a 3.95 out of 4 rating at the 2016 International PCMA Convening Leaders event in Vancouver, BC. A few months later, PCMA invited Andrea to present it as a webinar, and attendance was among their highest ever.

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Workshop 2No More Mediocre:How to lead engaging, purposeful & productive team meetings

Ask business leaders what we do for a living, and many could say — without irony — “I attend meetings.” And yet, in the same breath, most would add that meetings are often unproductive, frustrating and energy-sapping. We’d never tolerate such lackluster performance in manufacturing, sales or service. But we suffer through mediocre meetings, assuming there’s no alternative. Mercifully, there is.

So, how do you transform meeting attendees into true participants, who engage in meeting content and return to work more productive and able to reach your most important objectives? How can you take participants from bore—to ROARTM—and achieve a positive Return On Attendee Relevance (ROAR)? Join us to explore—and experience—practical, powerful tools for improving meetings, both routine, small-team gatherings and larger events.

Combining interactive learning (not lecture!) with case studies, peer-to-peer segments, brainstorming, and application, we’ll create a highly engaging, fast-paced, and productive session.

You’ll take away actionable tools including:• Strategies for designing and facilitating meetings so you get the right people solving

the right problems—in less time• How preparation, problem solving and “meeting cops” will ensure more productive meetings• Crucial questions that take meetings from bore to ROARTM

• Fresh meeting formats that produce more engaging agendas and more effective outcomes • What to do about how our brains don’t like boring things—so people learn

more of what matters to them• How generational differences factor into how we host meetings.

Ideal length: 75-90 minutes

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As meeting professionals, we stand at the forefront of distractions, because human’s collective state of disengagement is ever present in meetings. No matter how hard we try, some audience members will not be paying attention to what we’ve worked so hard for them to experience—the event itself.

Workshop 3From Bore to ROARTM

How to design radically engaging events —hands-on experiential workshop

So how do you transform meeting attendees into true participants, who engage in your meeting content

and return to work more productive and on fire about your mission? How can you take participants from

Bore—to ROARTM—and achieve a positive Return On Attendee Relevance (ROARTM)? Join us to

explore—and experience—practical, powerful tools for improving your events.

This program combines interactive learning (not lecture!) with case studies, peer-to-peer segments,

brainstorming, and application for a highly engaging, fast-paced, and productive session.

Whether you’re new to planning meetings, or a seasoned pro, you’ll get use-now ideas.

You’ll learn:

• Questions that take events from Bore to ROARTM. Ask them to elevate and add discipline to event planning, design events that meet crucial goals, and stage experiences of more significant value.

• Fresh meeting formats that take your agenda beyond the normal “keynote + breakout + breakout + keynote.” Learn to spice up your “regularly scheduled programming” with engaging conversations and take-aways about what matters most to your audiences.

• How our brains don’t like boring things—and what to do about it.• How to deliver programming that’s compelling enough to overcome the “second screen.”• How to maximize your investments in external speakers, and improve the quality of

internal speakers’ presentations.

Ideal length: 75-90 minutes

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Feedback from an international audience of event planners on Radically engaged: Boosting meeting effectiveness with curation, content and choice

“Great session! All the people I talked to said it was the best [breakout] they’ve been to.”

“Excellent presentation with lots of good take-aways”

“Loved it!”

“I found your information very impactful and pertinent to the types of events I plan. I certainly recommend you!” Carolyn Patterson, Event Manager, American Psychological Association

“Really great, applicable ideas from this session!”

And from a similar session:

“Andrea Driessen’s Top Tips for Pitching and Giving a TEDx Talk was informative, insightful and impactful. She inspired our audience to identify BIG ideas worth spreading; and to do this by sharing unique stories told from the lens of a speaker’s heart.” National Speakers Association Northwest Chapter

“You did a FANTASTIC job delivering the Top Tips for Pitching and Giving a TEDx Talk workshop! The buzz was that it was a GREAT NSA/NW meeting….You really gave a wonderful look behind the scenes at TEDx, as well as gave attendees real, actionable steps that they can take to pursue their own TEDx goals.” Bill Stainton, Member, National Speakers Association Northwest Chapter

Feedback on Bore to ROARTM includes:

“Your presentation was GREAT. So much good information—did you hear the buzz in the room!!?? It was a pure pleasure working with you.” ~Tiina Freeman, CAE

“I loved, loved, loved your How to Design Radically Engaging Events session at the MPI/PCMA Conference! Indeed, I’ve started practicing ‘Cricking’ and including the 3 questions that generate more ROAR….” Cheryl Ferguson, Meeting professional

“Andrea Driessen’s Bore to Roar workshop had our staff percolating with new ways to ramp up learning and heighten interpersonal engagement at our conferences. Modeling her core concepts, Andrea shifted seamlessly through learning phases every 10 minutes, at one point leading us to experience “moving to learn” and, at another, guiding us through ‘cricking.’

The energetic session went by in what seemed like minutes and we knew, experientially,that we could adapt her techniques to make our conference participants feel that their investments of time and money to attend a live event were amply rewarded.” ~Arlene H. Olkin, Ph.D., Director of Leadership Development, ASBO Int’l

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Chief Boredom Buster Andrea Driessen

is an international award-winning business owner who delivers engaging, unconventional events with compelling thought leaders, fresh meeting formats, purposeful play, and exceptional execution.

A member of the speaker curation, audience-experience and sponsor-acquisition teams at TEDxSeattle over the last 7 years, she is a devoted "TEDHead." As a PCMA Best-in-Class speaker, Andrea has presented workshops in Canada, Mexico, and across the US, and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and The Meeting Professional magazine.

She's also the creator of Mixing Chamber™—the transformational experience via which organizations curate, communicate, and activate their most ground-breaking ideas. It’s a powerful process streamlined into one customized package to drive innovation and revenue.

Andrea’s been serving the meetings industry for more than 25 years.

For rates & availability: 206-783-MEET (6338)

Andrea@NoMoreBoringMeetings.com

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