New Year, New Skills: Updated Training Courses for 2025 🎉
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Welcome to 2025: Get Ready to Captivate, Connect, and Inspire
Hi there! Welcome to Ansley Insights, a monthly-ish email from yours truly and Ansley Corporate Entertainment.
As we kick off 2025, we're focusing on what we do best: Connecting Ideas and Audiences in ways that inspire, engage, and leave a lasting impact.
Our Focus for 2025 is YOU:
This year, we're doubling down on three core areas to help you elevate your meetings, events, and presentations:
- Presentation Skills Training: Helping you and your team communicate with confidence and clarity. 🎙️
- Professional Speaking: Sharing engaging keynotes that connect with audiences and spark ideas. 🎙️
- Engaging Entertainment: Emceeing events, (and now emcee coaching!), audience engagement consulting, and interactive fun - all designed to bring people together. 🎙️
Let’s Start with a Tip: Keep Your Audience Front and Center
🔑The key to "connecting ideas and audiences?" It starts with understanding your audience.
Use the 5 W's to ensure your message is framed and focused so that it fully resonates with your audience:
- WHO are they? Know their interests, expectations and background.
- WHAT do they need or care about? Share something meaning or reaffirming. Get them to lean in.
- WHEN it’s over, what’s the key takeaway? What's the ONE THING you want them to do think or feel after your presentation?
- WHERE are they coming from and where do you them to go? Context matters - tailor your message accordingly.
- WHY does it matter? Focus on delivering a clear, memorable point. Most importantly, keep the WHY front and center through storytelling, specific examples and case studies.
"If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation, your audience never will." — Harvey Diamond
When you center your audience, your ideas become more than just words—they become connections.
Bonus Tip: Make it engaging! Ask questions, use humor, and encourage active participation to keep your audience attentive.
Let’s make 2025 the year that your ideas connect and your audiences remember. I'd love to connect with you to help make that happen.
~ Lauren Ansley, Founder & CEO
Ansley Corporate Entertainment
"Connecting Ideas & Audiences"
P.S. Have an upcoming meeting, conference, or special event? Reply to this email, and let’s chat about how we can help.
So, what's new with Ansley Corporate Entertainment? So glad you asked...
UPDATED TRAINING COURSE OUTLINES
Happy to share that we've refreshed and expanded our training programs to help teams communicate with confidence and connect with impact.
Looking for something more immersive? Check out The Art of Stepping into the Spotlight, a customizable, multi-session program blending storytelling, presentation skills, and personalized feedback to help participants truly shine. Features an optional graduation performance to show off those new skills!
Ready to empower your team? Reply to this email, and let’s create a training experience tailored to your goals! View our training programs here.
🎙️What We Did in December🎙️
Our team provided entertainment for 14 end-of-year parties (both in person and online) for over 1,000 guests! We hosted Game Shows, Comedy Shows, Minute to Win It Games, Virtual Music Bingo, Virtual Team Trivia and more!
Participated in the AENC’s annual trade show for the first time, and it was absolutely amazing. Met lots of cool people from across North Carolina, too.
Hosted a Speed Networking with a Twist session for NACE Charlotte’s Mingle & Jingle holiday celebration
Spruced up all of our Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Training Course Outlines. Download them here.
Closed out the year by being named Employee of the Month for December 2024!
🎙️What We're Doing in January🎙️
Kicked off the new year by leading "The Art of the Ask" including creating your 10-second intro. with Charlotte is Creative on 1/2.
Serving as an Ambassador for the incredible 11th Annual Breakfast Conversations on Feb 25 in Charlotte, NC - my third year attending. Join us and get 10% off your ticket here with promo code: ACE.
Invited to be speaker coach for the inaugural TedxSugar Creek Women on May 10! Details here.
1/12 - CONCORD, NC - Participating in a bridal fair to officially launch Toast Ready, an online training program to help you prepare, practice and perfect your toast for any special occasion. Learn more here.
1/14 - CHARLOTTE, NC - Invited to serve on the NACE Charlotte programs committee. Care to join me for our "Handshakes to Hugs" lunch meeting on 11/14? Details here.
1/16 - CHARLOTTE, NC - Closing keynote speaker for a client's company-wide meeting. My message is about perseverance and the power of teamwork - it's interactive and closes with a fun group activity right before Happy Hour. Need a speaker? Check out my keynotes here.
1/20 - MATTHEWS, NC - First night of The Funny Fundamentals, a new 3-part stand-up comedy class in partnership with The Town of Matthews. Care to join us? Learn more and enroll here.
1/22 - CHARLOTTE, NC - Attending the CRVA Partners in Tourism Awards Breakfast. Will I see you there? More info here.
1/23 - CHARLOTTE, NC - Teaching my second SkillPop class: Intro to Public Speaking. Join me!
1/24 - CONCORD, NC - Presenting a curated "Networking with Eloquence" program at the January National Speakers Association Carolinas Retreat. Join me!
1/31 - LOUISVILLE, KY - Excited to return to the ESPA 2025 Conference and host Speed Networking with a Twist for 300+ attendees again this year AND also facilitate a breakout session of "7 Secrets of Public Speaking!" Details here.
PS: FOR THE FUNNY GALS - Enrollment is now open for the 8th Women's Comedy Class of Charlotte. This six-week class kicks off on March 2. Get all the details and enroll here.
Get the Latest...
- Searching for an engaging speaker for your upcoming business meeting, conference or special event? Download my Speaker One Sheet
- Learn more about my Public Speaking and Presentation Skills offerings including my signature program "The Art of Powerful Presentations"
- Looking for something new for your upcoming conference? Reply to this email and let's talk through some fun ideas to entertain and energize your audience, exhibitors and speakers.
Want to learn more? Let's talk! Schedule a call here.
"If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation, your audience never will."
~ Harvey Diamond
