Speak with Impact: Developing Your Signature Remarks Toolkit with Helen Jonsen
Date: Apr 23, 2025Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Apr232025
Speak with Impact: Developing Your Signature Remarks Toolkit with Helen Jonsen
Description
There is fierce competition, whether it’s funding, clients, or jobs you’re seeking. Tuning up our ability to speak with confidence and sell ourselves and our ideas can advance our odds of success. Join communications expert Helen Jonsen for this practical workshop where you will learn:
- Why and how to develop your signature remarks
- Your passion statement
- Your personal storytelling
- Your key talking points
- Flexing for different platforms (e.g., presentations, interviews, panels, webinars)
- Beat the Interview – techniques for Q&A for either the interviewer or guest/job seeker/funding seeker
Helen is the founder and chief storyteller at helen jonsen media and host of This Kaleidoscope Career podcast. Helen’s work focuses on strategic impact communications serving executives, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, authors, experts and advocates to help them hone their messaging and become confident and memorable speakers.
Helen’s kaleidoscope career in media includes stints as a correspondent and producer on air and behind the scenes for NBC News, Channels 5 & 11 in NYC, the Nine and Ten Networks of Australia, Forbes, Working Mother Media and cable news, among other outlets. As a subject expert on business and leadership topics, and as a spokesperson for public agencies, she has appeared on CBS, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, PBS To the Contrary, numerous local TV stations across the U.S., on podcasts and in countless publications. She is also a writer and author.
Please note that no refreshments will be served. Pre-registration is required and will close at Noon on April 22nd, 2025.
Please note that no refunds will be issued.
Please note that no refunds will be issued.
By registering for this event you agree to abide by the HBSCNY Code of Conduct for yourself and your guests (read here).
Bios
Speaker
Helen Jonsen
Chief Storyteller Media Coach Speaker Host
Helen’s kaleidoscope career offers decades of experience from newsrooms to corporate boardrooms, from startups to established publishers, from nonprofits to government agencies. She has been an entrepreneur and executive at the confluence of digital media and business disruption.
As a multi-platform journalist, media coach and strategic media pro, writer and trainer, Helen has been a business and editorial advisor to executives and entrepreneurs, media networks, nonprofits, government agencies and corporations.
Storytelling is in Helen’s DNA and at the heart of everything she creates. As a veteran journalist, Helen covered breaking news and financial/business news, long-format feature news, and other coverage for national and international television networks and online media. She has been a contributor to a variety of publications and the author of several books.
Storytelling is in Helen’s DNA and at the heart of everything she creates. As a veteran journalist, Helen covered breaking news and financial/business news, long-format feature news, and other coverage for national and international television networks and online media. She has been a contributor to a variety of publications and the author of several books.
In recent years, Helen took her skills to public service for the City of New York as head of Public Affairs at NYC Economic Development Corp. and Westchester County working closely with elected and appointed leaders on crisis management, strategic and executive communications, and thought leadership. Currently, she is the founder and chief storyteller at helen jonsen media, a boutique consulting firm, based in the Hudson Valley.
Helen is known as a public speaker on the craft of communication, strengthening advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, life-work balance, leadership and the advancement of women. She has moderated and organized panels for leading conferences including Forbes Women’s Summits, Working Mother Best Companies and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s conferences in the US and Stockholm. She has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising, and industry associations.
Helen is known as a public speaker on the craft of communication, strengthening advocacy, resiliency in the face of life’s challenges, life-work balance, leadership and the advancement of women. She has moderated and organized panels for leading conferences including Forbes Women’s Summits, Working Mother Best Companies and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s conferences in the US and Stockholm. She has been called upon to emcee events for nonprofit corporate/fundraising, and industry associations.
Read more about Helen’s Kaleidoscope Career here.
Moderator
Gretchen Grant, MBA 1985
Advisor, Intentful AI
Gretchen Grant is a strategic growth consultant and C-suite fractional executive who helps companies at the intersection of technology, content, and data to achieve longevity through transforming their monetization strategy and execution practices .She is Advisor to Intentful AI, and was CEO of DailyFX and BobVila.com.
Date Time
Date: Apr 23, 2025Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PMLocation
Harvard Club35 West 44th StreetNew York, NY 10036View Map
Price
- 20 / Member
- 40 / Alumni Non-Member
Sponsors
Organizer
Gretchen Grant, MBA 1985Harvard Club
35 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036
