LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: New Media Training

The good news is the new media is unfiltered. You can communicate directly to stakeholders and the public at large in a variety of ways to ensure your message is conveyed the way you want. The power of a video of you speaking or your own words in a blog introducing your product, service, a key event is tremendous and every CEO should leverage it.  

The bad news is the new media is unfiltered. The potential for missteps and misinterpretation is huge. A lackluster performance can seriously undermine your efforts. Every CEO should take the time and effort to learn exactly how to communicate via the new media.  This session, New Media Training, will introduce the core concepts of truly effective communication. 

Our featured speaker LeeAundra Keany (formerly Temescu) is an executive communications coach specializing in public speaking, media training, effective business presentation training and executive presence. In her twenty years as a coach, she has worked with former heads of state, Nobel Laureates, best-selling authors, award-winning producers, directors and actors, Olympians, high ranking officials in the U.S. Government and the CEOs of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.

She is the author of The Contrary Public Speaker: A Break-the-Rules Approach to Breakthrough Presentations and the forthcoming "POTUS Flubs: Communication Lessons from the Ten Not-So-Greatest Moments of Presidential Rhetoric."

LeeAundra is a national award-winning public speaker and speechwriter honored by the National Forensics Association.  She has published numerous articles on public speaking in on-line journals and provides regular expert commentary and analysis on public speaking and debate for TV news outlets in Los Angeles, San Diego and Miami, as well as national cable channels such as CNN and the TV Guide Channel. She has appeared on radio shows around the world including the BBC World Service, BBC - The World Today, ABC Radio, WOR (New York), the Bloomberg Radio Network and Radio 2CC Canberra (Australia.)  LeeAundra has been quoted in The Economist, The Daily Beast, Christian Science Monitor, New York Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, The Times (of London), the New York Times' political blog "The Caucus", The Boston Globe, Forbes.com, Gannett News Service, Reuters Wire Service, Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, and has been featured in My Business, Smart Money Magazine, and Los Angeles Magazine's "The Best of LA" issue. She is also a regular contributor to Discover magazine, penning the popular "20 Things You Didn't Know About..." feature.

LeeAundra graduated from the Honors College of Oakland University in Michigan with a double degree in Political Science and Rhetoric, Communications and Journalism. She earned her M.A. in Politics from New York University. 

Please join us for an intellectually stimulating presentation, conversation, and problem solving round table.