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Present! Skills and Drills for Presenting with Impact

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Join Karen Catlin, author of "Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking" and CLUB Advisory Board member, for a practical insightful workshop on presentation skills.

First up: how to use gestures/body language to reinforce your message

Next: Identify your key point to "underline & repeat" throughout your talk. If they don't remember anything else, make sure they remember this!

Last but not least: tips for presenting via video, with individual guidance from Laraine McKinnon on camera angle, lighting and audio.

Come prepared with a pitch, abstract, or just a concept you have for an upcoming talk. We'll invite volunteers to practice using gestures in front of the group and/or get feedback on their key message.


Karen Catlin, keynote speaker, author, leadership coach

Karen Catlin is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, author, and passionate advocate for inclusion in the workplace. After spending twenty-five years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, she witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears.

Today, Karen coaches women to be stronger leaders and men to be better allies. Her client roster includes Airbnb, DoorDash, eBay, and Intuit, as well as entrepreneurs and individuals. Karen's coaching offerings include tactics for increasing visibility, being more strategic, managing stakeholders, negotiation, and cultivating ally skills. Her writing on these and related topics has appeared in Inc., the Daily Beast, Fast Company, and the Muse, and she's consulted on articles for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the New York Times. 

To help more people cultivate ally skills, Karen wrote Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces. She also published a companion guidebook, The Better Allies™ Approach to Hiring, with best practices to recruit and hire people from underrepresented groups.

A self-professed public speaking geek, Karen is a highly sought-after and engaging presenter who has delivered talks at more than a hundred conferences and corporate events. She speaks on a variety of topics, including inclusive workplaces and women in leadership. Her TEDx talk, Women in Tech: The Missing Force, explores the decline in gender diversity in tech, why it's a problem, and what can be done about it. In addition to speaking herself, Karen is determined to change the ratio for who is on stage giving keynotes and other presentations. To support this goal, she coauthored Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking with Poornima Vijayashanker.

Karen is a graduate and active alum of Brown University, serving as an advisor to the university's Computer Science Diversity Initiative and mentoring students on how to launch their careers. She's also on the Advisory Boards for The Women's CLUB of Silicon Valley and WEST (Women Entering & Staying in Technology). In 2015, the California State Assembly honored Karen with the Wonder Women Tech Innovator Award for outstanding achievements in business and technology and for being a role model for women.


Laraine McKinnon, Talent & Culture Strategist, CLUB President


Laraine helps savvy companies create healthy workplace cultures. She brings data and insights to drive innovation and collaboration, and prevent harassment, bias, and discrimination. Laraine is an Advisor and Talent and Culture Strategist for Emtrain, a CultureTech company, and founder of LMC17, a strategic consulting firm. Laraine is serving her second term as President of The CLUB Silicon Valley, a diverse community of women leaders, where she runs a talent Incubator to help women accelerate their careers. Laraine was named a Silicon Valley Business Times "Woman of Influence" in 2018

We'll be collecting a non-refundable fee to hold your spot. Scholarships available for CLUB members with financial need. Contact laraine@theclubsv.org to request a scholarship.

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