WORKSHOPS
Meet our amazing Speakers and Workshop Leaders. They are one of the best ones in their fields.
Let’s look forward to their inspiring talks and workshops covering a range of the hottest topics from the areas of Public Speaking and Leadership skills.
Elena Paweta
Business communication coach, TEDx organiser, certified trainer, podcast host, academic lecturer, PhD in economics
I am a business communication and public speaking coach.
As a TEDx organizer, I have been coaching top speakers who achieved over 1 million views of their talks. Now I am lecturing at leading business schools and working with managers and CEOs on their business presentations. If you want to learn everything about speaking with confidence, and you are serious about making an impact with your business presentations – contact me.
How to become a TEDx speaker? Find your idea worth spreading.
Elena Paweta
If you want to become a TEDx speaker to boost your credibility and be considered expert in your field – join this workshop! With my almost 10-year TEDx organising, coaching and speaking experience I will help you to come up with your idea worth spreading.
During this workshop you will learn:
– How to come up with an interesting idea . You will understand what kind of ideas are suitable for TEDx events and how to prepare your own.
– What TEDx organisers are looking for. You will learn what exactly organisers are looking at when curating their stages and what you need to focus on.
– How to WOW your audience. You will get the tools on how to make your idea relevant and interesting for your audience.
Learning outcomes
During this workshop you will learn:
– How to come up with an interesting idea . You will understand what kind of ideas are suitable for TEDx events and how to prepare your own.
– What TEDx organisers are looking for. You will learn what exactly organisers are looking at when curating their stages and what you need to focus on.
– How to WOW your audience. You will get the tools on how to make your idea relevant and interesting for your audience.
Kyle Murtagh
Kyle Murtagh is Scotland’s most exciting public speaker and aims to become the World Champion of Public Speaking. He looks forward to continue inspiring people to develop their public speaking confidence and to own their presentations like never before. In 2018, he founded ‘Confidence by Design’, an industry-leading presentation skills company that has helped people from all walks of life to transform their public speaking abilities – from global corporations to ambitious entrepreneurs. His passion, hard work and talent has also led him to win multiple public speaking accolades, including becoming a European Champion in 2021. Not only that, but Kyle is now a successful author! His debut title ‘‘The 5 Pillars of Effective Public Speaking’ has received 5-star reviews from readers across the globe, who have discovered how to unlock their public speaking potential to achieve tangible results.
Evaluate like a champion.
Kyle Murtagh
Feedback is the breakfast of champions’
But if that ‘breakfast’ is not cooked correctly or served with a smile, it can leave a bitter taste that can dishearten the very people you are trying to encourage.
Thus, learning how to ‘evaluate like a champion’ is a critical skill if you want to encourage your colleagues, your friends, and your fellow Toastmasters to reach new heights!
In this interactive workshop, you will discover how to:
☑️ Make your evaluations as compelling as a speech.
☑️ Identify a speaker’s strengths & areas for improvement.
☑️ Win evaluation speech contests at ALL levels.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll know how to serve a full-course feedback breakfast that will fuel a champion!
Learning outcomes
They will discover how to:
☑️ Make their evaluations as compelling as a speech.
This will be achieved by changing the audience’s mindset toward how evaluations ‘should’ be done. In turn, their preparation, content selection, and delivery will change when giving feedback in Toastmasters and at work.
☑️ Identify a speaker’s strengths & areas for improvement.
They will learn how to identify the unique, ‘special’ strength that every speaker has. They will also discover how to give constructive feedback – so that people are inspired by their words and not demotivated.
☑️ Win evaluation speech contests at ALL levels.
For those who are interested in achieving contest success, I will share all my secrets which lead to me becoming a 2-time District evaluation champion.
Luise Schnelting
Excellent communication connects people, creates opportunities and fosters productivity. Luise loves communication because it allows her to connect people, create opportunities and foster productive mindsets. For more than 10 years – in various capacities – she has helped diverse audiences understand the beauty of great communication. As a speaker, team leader, highly motivated professional, and international marketer working for a multibillion-euro company, she shares proven tactics that always get results. These tactics will help you inspire, encourage and lead others in various settings: workplace, Toastmasters or socially.
Effective Communication Explained in Simple Terms: Top 7 Tips to Engage Your Audience and Easily Reach Your Communication Goals
Luise Schnelting
This section gives you easy and straightforward tips and tricks to effectively reach your communication goals. These proven tips apply to all kinds of interactions: email, conversations, chats…even your next speech!
Armed with these powerful tactics, you can confidently interact with your audience as you’d do with…close friends or high school classmates. It’s all about your approach. Get the right approach in this session.
Join us for a fun and practical conversation. You’ll be glad you did!
Learning outcomes
Excellent communication is about three things: keep it short, add value and adapt your message. And this is exactly what this session teaches you! Through practical examples – and in a fun and interactive way – you learn how to adapt your message to your audience while keeping everything concise.
Learn how to become an extraordinary communicator today!
Carol Bausor
Carol Bausor joined Toastmasters 13 years ago, and has never regretted that choice! She credits Toastmasters with helping her learn more, aim for more, and consequently gain more! She is a Master Trainer and Conference Speaker, who loves sharing her quest for constant advance in life. She is British, living in France, and, during COVID was in touch with Czech members via the online STORYTELLING workshops! This will be her second visit to Prague with Toastmasters, and will be delighted to challenge and propel you during her workshop.
PUT A PROPELLER ON YOUR LIFE!
Carol Bausor
Have you ever stopped to take stock of your life .. and found that you are really dissatisfied? You yearn for “something more” without really knowing that that “something” really is … Or maybe you have identified your calling, but you scratch your head wondering how on earth you could get there … The truth is that so often in life we are just following the rails to a destination we no longer wish to go to. in this session you will learn that not only is it never too late .. but that defining your new roadl map , and taking the first steps is easier than you thought!
Learning outcomes
1. Access your hopes and dreams for your life
2. Eliminate the blocks which are stopping you achieving them
3. Define a blueprint for changing your life … however old you are, however doubting your are
Christian Riegel
Christian Riegel studied physics and became a Doctor of Natural Sciences in 2018 while working in Geneva, Switzerland. During his studies there, he discovered and fell in love with improvised comedy. She is currently playing and performing with the troupe Allmächd Knud in Nuremburg, Germany. Since 2019, he is a proud member of Erlangen Toastmasters, currently serving as the club’s VPEd. He is a trained life coach and trainer with a passion about creative processes, storytelling, team dynamics, and communication. In short, by day he is a physicist and scientist, by heart an improvisor, trainer, and communicator. He believes that we all deserve our hero’s journey! Good communication might not solve every problem on earth, yet bad communication makes every problem worse.
If that is true, what else? – Make your story alive with coherent storytelling
Christian Riegel
Stories are magical: They let us join us our heroes from the beginning of their journeys until the end, through trials and hardship, through dangers and epic battles. Sticks and stones may break their bones but they shouldn’t break the reality of the story. Writing a coherent story can take a lot of time, effort, and going back-and-forth to tweak some events. But how can this be done in an improvised story? In front of an audience? When all you have to work with it the current moment?
We dive right into this, we look at classical story architecture and then experiment with the tools of improvisation to explore the limits of a reality while avoiding to pop the bubble. This is going to be an interactive hands-on, minds-on, spontaneity-on workshop. As our heroes, we might emerge afterwards with treasures and newfound wisdom.
Learning outcomes
After the workshop, attendees will understand the basic structure of a story and the importance of establishing a base reality and then breaking it. This knowledge is equally useful for prepared and for improvised speeches.
Key skill of delivering a coherent story is to anticipate the audience’s expectation on which the criterium of “coherence” depends. Attendees will see how to play with expectations to create surprises without being unreasonable.
They will get an inside into improvisational theater and train their spontaneity on stage for all Toastmaster contributions ranging from Table Topics (Master and Participant likewise) over Toastmaster of the Evening to a President’s introduction.
Nika Mak
Nika is a Performance Mindset Coach; she helps people transform their lives through mini-learning and one-on-one sessions with tailored programmes: “Joy in Doing” and “KICKSTARTin”. She had a big career in corporate and finished it as a Deputy Commercial Executive.
She joined Prague Business Toastmasters in 2019, quit temporarily to build an off-grid campervan with her husband, which they call a dream house on wheels. Returned after 2 years at the end of 2022, and to this day in Toastmasters, she helped the division director with finances, became the District Financial Manager (still performing with the audit committee), and finished the Dynamic Leadership Pathway.
I know the value of support and empathy as a person who used to have panic attacks and depression. She is happily and deeply married for 17 years. 2-year-old owner of a smart Yorkie with long legs.
The Power of Perception: Redefining Life’s Narrative
Nika Mak
“Perception shapes reality.” This timeless quote by William James sets the stage for our self-development session, “The Power of Perception: Redefining Life’s Narrative.” Join me for an enlightening 30 minutes where we’ll explore how fresh angles of view can influence our minds and transform the way we experience life
Following the photographer capturing stunning images and using the same activities we will learn how to master the art of perception and influence our mind with simple steps.
Nothing out of the usual is required, everything that we will use is always with us.
Together, we’ll demonstrate to our brains the magic that can happen when we look at the same thing from multiple angles. Through an engaging activity, “Shift Your Perspective,” we’ll playfully explore different movements and angles, expanding our experience and tricking our minds to see the beauty and be in the moment.
Be an explorer and come to learn to use fresh angles that will lead you to tell your own story in a new way. Show your mindset an example and break free from the confines of conventional thinking and create a narrative that is truly yours.
Learning outcomes
Gain a New Perspective:
Participants will learn the importance of looking at life from different angles and expanding their views, enabling them to approach challenges and opportunities with a fresh, innovative mindset.
Appreciate Simplicity
By exploring the beauty of simplicity through low-angle photography and learning to appreciate the small, often overlooked aspects of life. This will encourage mindfulness and finding joy in the present moment.
Creativity – be proactive.
By taking the initiative we create opportunities for growth and success. When we are proactive and take charge of our own path, we open doors to new possibilities.
Steve Miller
Steve joined Toastmasters in 2017 after a disastrous Table Topic-type speech at a very public client event. He continues to improve his impromptu speaking skills and credits his Toastmasters experience with significantly strengthening his presentation, training and coaching activities. And, thanks to a random conversation over coffee with a fellow Toastmaster, he found himself starting along a new professional path of UX Design and web development. Steve comes from the USA and has spent the last 25+ years living in Warsaw, Lisbon, and currently, Nuremberg, Germany, where he divides his time running his freelance business, staying active, Toastmastering, and, of course, clearing clutter!
From Clutter to Capacity
Steve Miller
“The environment always wins” is a coaching principle that impacts each of us. Too often, the environment we put ourselves in holds us back from being our best. Something’s missing, broken, or out of place. There’s too much or too little of something. And whether we are consciously aware of it or not, each of these “somethings” clutters our minds, eating away at our energy and robbing us of the capacity to shine our brightest.
In this fun, interactive blitz workshop, you’ll be introduced to a methodology that is designed to clear some of the clutter, opening up space for some of your more rewarding pursuits! We’ll take a look at how we can identify clutter in two of our key environments – physical and digital. You’ll clear some of it immediately and walk away with a challenge to continue clearing clutter over the following weeks, helping you to create your own winning environment.
Learning outcomes
Attendees will walk away with a better appreciation of how physical, mental and emotional clutter limits their potential to perform their best in whatever role they’re in. They will have the opportunity to reflect on, document and share a few items that are cluttering their physical environment and they’ll be challenged to commit to clearing them. They’ll also be invited to clear some of their digital clutter right then and there, giving them an immediate sense of achievement. They’ll be given links to additional resources and a gamified challenge to continue the process following the Residential Weekend.
Balazs Toth
About 30 years ago after a butchered TableTopics, walking off the stage ashamed, feeling awkward, head hanging low, something broke for the better. Balazs has started to explore how to tackle table topics. Since then he has won several TableTopics contests. Once a ToastMaster, always a ToastMaster. For the past 12+ years he achieved both an Advanced Communicator and Leader. Been a Division Director, presented for audiences ranging from 5 to 500. Now it is his payback time to you on how to tackle TableTopics.
How to tacke TableTopics (or any other impromtu speeches)
Balazs Toth
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” – Mark Twain
Like Mark Twain, you can prepare for a masterful impromtu speech and TableTopics. This is not rocket science, but simple 12 trechniques you can use to speak on any subject life presents you.
Let’s explore together what 12 tools you can employ…
Learning outcomes
Participants will learn the basics of how to prepare for the unpreparable: TableTopics.
At the end of the session all will walk away with 12 techniques to use in future impromptu speeches and a bit more.
Olga Kutsche
Olga Y. Kutsche, DTM is an experienced language coach and proficient academic writer. Since 2011 she has taught students how to use language to persuade and inspire for academic purposes and in creative writing. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American Literature and Culture with a special focus on poetry, making her uniquely qualified to present this
workshop. She has to her credit 15 years in academia as a language coach, over 60 graduates who started their careers as successful writers and journalists, and 5 years of experience in the PR department of the Municipal Government. Her decade in Toastmasters has seen her move from being a passionate writer to an engaged inspirational speaker. She is immediate past Division D Director, a successful mentor, club ambassador, and networker.
From Reader to Orator
Olga Kutsche
Picture the following – you are reading a great book or article, a real page-turner (or screen-scroller!) and before you know it, an hour has passed! There’s just something about good books that keeps us reading hour by hour, sometimes even all night long. Authors know how to make their books appealing to the public. They use descriptive language, regulate the pace of narration, and choose words to awaken emotions and convey moods. So is there a way to use these techniques to make our speeches more appealing as well? Who better to answer this than experienced Toastmaster, Coach and Ph.D. in American Literature Olga Kutsche? Her answer is a resounding yes, and in this workshop she aims to share how we can do so. Through analysis of curated literary passages and exercises that develop our speechwriting skills, Olga will not only show us how to celebrate great authors from the past, but also to embrace their support in our speaking future.
Learning outcomes
1. Use language effectively: you will learn how to enhance your speech with the literary tools that make the books captivating. The same tools can be used rhetorically and are able to make your speech memorable. Employing the language at its best possible for your speech’s rhetorical purposes enhances your message and promotes you as an effective speaker.
2. Structure your speech smartly: how to start and how to conclude your speech in the most impactful way. Reviewing how the authors start and conclude their books you will learn how your speech could be improved with strong starts and endings.
3. Compose your speech with fun: practice writing speeches using the skills that you obtain at the workshop. Writing an effective speech is a game that gets more and more exciting when you dive into the process. Regard the writing process as a language game and you will never complain about a lack of creativity.
4. Read purposefully: if you want to write compelling speeches, read interesting books! Ask yourself what makes this book so appealing. Reading every book ask yourself: how
Paul O’Mahony
PAUL O’MAHONY joined Toastmasters in 2015. He comes from Limerick, Ireland. After 30 years in UK, Paul now lives in Cork. This Toastmaster year (2023-4), he is Public Relations Manager for Toastmasters District 71 (UK North & Ireland). Paul is also Vice President Education of Blarney Toastmasters, Vice President Membership of Toastmasters4Golf Club, Secretary of One Country One World Club – and also a member of Shilling Speakers Toastmasters Club & Firebirds Collective Club. Paul took to the Internet with alacrity in 2005 as a blogger, podcaster & publisher on social media. Since 2016, Paul has been co-host of the Toastmasters podcast “Irish Talkers” – popularly known as “Talk Show For Talkers”. Paul is a marketer, copywriter, and business storytelling consultant. As an interpersonal skills trainer, he has specialised in performance management, developing leaders & mentors, and customer service. He’s a poet, podcaster, dog-walker, golfer & gin-taster.
In Myers Briggs Personality Type terms, Paul is Extrovert, Intuitive, Thinking & Perceiving (ENTP). He is an Enneagram Personality Type Eight – “The Challenger”.
His favourite poets are Walt Whitman and Mary Oliver. His favourite quotation is “We are meaning-making machines.”
Paul O’Mahony’s life vision is ‘To live a positive & challenging life’. One of his goals is to ‘Help others to develop their potential’. Another is to ‘Have a fairly happy family life’.
LEADING IN AN ARTIFICIAL WORLD – the end of leader’s block.
Paul O’Mahony
This session addresses a leadership challenge that human intelligences and artificial intelligences confront when working together. It invites attendees to the ‘AI party’ that has exploded during 2023. Together, engagingly, we face up to the big questions “How can I harness artificial intelligence to the intelligences of my team – in a value-generating, win-win, enjoyable style? Is my leadership intelligence doomed to become second best? How can we empower all our intelligences for social good?” It will be a leadership speech, a leadership workshop, a leadership panel discussion, and a leadership blast.
Learning outcomes
Attendees will
(1) experience what it’s like to challenge and work with the diversity of human & artificial intelligences
(2) learn how to empower an artificial intelligence with teamwork.
(3) welcome and be able to integrate artificial intelligence into their leadership work
Dániel Kővári
Daniel Kovari is from Hungary. He joined Toastmasters 10 years ago and held various leadership roles from Club President to District Director of our beloved District 110.
In Business , he is a Team Manager for 40 Developers, Testers and Cybersecurity Experts in evosoft, a Siemens owned IT company. Toastmasters is the foundation of his personal life as he found love, adventure and stability within this amazing organization. Funfact, that he had chance to meet and speak with 3 Toastmasters’ World Champions in person.
The Mystery of Ceremony Mastery
Dániel Kővári
I will deliver a session based on my personal experience as Master of Ceremony in various events. I will mostly focus on how to utilize and monetize learnt skills as Toastmasters in a Business environment. How to prepare well for stage management, what kind of obstacles can appear from the middle of nowhere, how to handle extraordinary situations.
Learning outcomes
You can learn how to prepare the days before, how to act during the big day and what activities shall you focus on after the event. I will also talk about which skills are necessary to start a side-business in Ceremony Mastery.
Hale Doganci
Hale is a certified Career Coach and Facilitator at Accenture. She is passionate about inspiring everybody to transform into their true being and heal from the past. She is an advocate when it comes to mental health in Corporations and believes that there is a true mind body connection that is fundamental in creating the best version of yourself. That’s why she has educated herself also in Movement and is also a Fitness Instructor by heart and teaching Pilates & Cardio Workouts.
The Power of Habits
Hale Doganci
The outcomes in our Life’s are determined by our Habits. Creating Habits in Body, Mind and Soul is essential in order for us to live our fullest potential. Are you ready to transform? Dive in with me to a fascinating topic that will give you insights about how I created Habits and changed my Life completely cause I believe that we ALL deserve to live our absolute best SELF!
Learning outcomes
Understanding how to create habits and create consistency around movement and thought, inspiration for your Life to become your best self
Trevor Smith
“Trainer, Coach & Consultant
Trevor is based in Prague, Czech Republic and has over 20 year’s experience working as a trainer, coach and consultant.
Trevor is very much in demand and has completed training and consulting assignments in 22 countries, for many Fortune 500 global companies.
Trevor’s style of training is very practical and draws on the best practices learnt from accelerated leaning techniques and NLP.
He also lectures at several Universities on leadership, organisation behaviour and strategy.
His specialist training and coaching areas include communication, especially presentation design and delivery as well as Leadership and change management.
Trevor is also often asked to speak at company events as well as being a keynote speaker at international conferences. https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-smith-97843312/”
Transforming Presentations using Visual Design Principles and Infographics
Trevor Smith
In the corporate world (and even Toastmasters officers training) PowerPoint presentations are a much-used form of communication. Many presentations, unfortunately are ineffective and fail or only partly achieve the objective that the presenter intended. Being able to design, create and deliver a presentation is one of the most important skills that you can have if you want to be successful in your chosen career. This session will show you in a fun and informative way, how Visual Design Principles will ensure your presentations are PERSUASIVE and get RESULTS.
Learning outcomes
As a result of this session, you will be able to:
Transform any presentation into an engaging journey by using visuals and infographics that add
impact.
Use some advanced features in PowerPoint that enhance your message .
Deliver your presentations with more confidence as you will know that the design is optimized.
This session will mainly be, input from the presenter using slides and other visuals
aids to support the message. Storytelling frameworks and visual maps
will also be shared so that they can be used by the participants
In the future when they apply the knowledge gained form the session.
There will also be some worked examples of ‘before’ and ‘after’
slides to show the impact of applying visual design principles
Adina Mitroi
Adina is a dedicated person with a strong desire to learn and is always interested in personal development. She truly believes in education and has great interest in how the human mind works. She is also certified in the 1st level of Natural Language Processing (NLP) from Tad James School. Her passions include training, public speaking, neuroscience and psychology.
NLP in Public Speaking
Adina Mitroi
Want to know how NLP can help you in your speeches? Join this training to find out about how you can deliver your message so that it is fully understood by your audience! This is more than a communication training, it is also neuroscience!
Learning outcomes
– their own preferred representational system
– how to approach each type of person according to their main representational system when delivering speeches
– communication skills
Balazs Somogyi
Balazs Somogyi is a project manager, process improvement expert, consultant and podcaster with 20 years professional expreience. Balazs has helped organizations and trained thousands of people in five continents how to achieve their goals in complex, ever changing environment. He advocates the importance of project management and leadership skills in every situation. Balazs has held several roles at Toastmasters Inernational: area director, division director, Pathways guide and Program Quality Director. Balazs lives in Budapest, Hungary, He is a father of three. He holds Project Management Institute PMP certification.
The Everyday Project Manager
Balazs Somogyi
We are all involved in projects. Let it be in our company, professional life, at Toastmasters or at home. We may not called as project managers, but we do initiate changes, developing or building something new either phisically or in the virtual world.
Learning outcomes
After the workshop you’ll indentify those areas you manage projects, you’ll understand the key, relly key factors to project success you’ll build your plan how to implement them in your project(s)