Open Roundtable (Joint with EDs)

Please join us for our quarterly Open Nonprofit Roundtable, open to anyone working for a nonprofit, including program staff, development staff, and so on. For this special joint roundtable, executive directors are also encouraged to attend. Share best practices and connect with your peers. The main session runs from 8:30-9:30, and participants are welcome to stay another half hour for social time afterwards. Roundtables are free to attend. The meeting will be held in classroom 1C at the Blair Education Center in the Park City Hospital. Light breakfast items and coffee are always on hand. More details can be found at parkcitycf.org/nonprofit-roundtables. Please RSVP to Maddy Shear at maddyshear1@gmail.com.

Topic: Media Training with Beth Noymer Levine

Many of you asked for this topic, so if you’re an executive director or a staff member that speaks with the media, this is for YOU!

Does being a spokesperson for your organization feel daunting? Have you been disappointed with the coverage after you gave an interview? Would you like to have a strategy or game plan for talking with the media? Come learn alongside your colleagues from expert media relations guest Beth Noymer Levine.

Beth will share insights and best practices to help you wrap your head around the process and prepare you to be an effective spokesperson. Most important, she will answer your questions! Leave the roundtable with the tools to help you effectively stay on message every time you speak with the media in times of good news and bad.

Beth Noymer Levine
Founder & Principal, SmartMouth Communications
Coaching people to use their brains before their mouths is the sole focus of Beth Noymer Levine’s work at SmartMouth Communications. After more than a decade in PR, IR, and Corporate Communications in New York and Atlanta, Beth established SmartMouth in Salt Lake City in 2005 to offer Speaker Coaching, Presentation Skills Training, Media Readiness™ Training, and related services. Beth is the author of the award-winning book “Jock Talk: 5 Communication Principles for Leaders as Exemplified by Legends of the Sports World.” She is also the creator of the iOS app SmartMouth Public Speaking Toolkit and a suite of Communication and Presentation Skills courses offered online through OpenSesame. Beth has lectured and taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the University of Utah, and New York University. In 2015, Beth was one of Utah Business Magazine’s “30 Women to Watch.” She has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and is a regular contributor to Forbes.com.

Location: Classroom 1C, Blair Education Center, Park City Hospital