"Let me engage your audience..."
"I love connecting with an audience and storytelling is in my DNA."
Helen has keynoted and/or served as emcee for nonprofit corporate/fundraising events, symposiums, and industry and networking association events. She would be delighted to work with you on your special program.
Helen's Keynotes and Interactive Talks:
Empower and Engage with One Voice: Why You Need to Cultivate Ambassadors
How and why you must energize your teams and stakeholders by empowering them to be ambassadors for the mission–whether engaging with members, volunteers, donors or advocates.
Live Your Mission. Join Your Community:
Communication is two-sided–learning and engaging. Through research and listening, teams can become more impactful advocates to grow your mission. Let Helen help your teams do deep dives into those they serve and successfully engage new advocates, members, donors and volunteers.
Communicating with Impact
Change Girl Talk to Woman Talk: Many women feel unheard because they have been shut down too often or told: "It's not polite to..." From the way women introduce themselves to apologizing for speaking out or disagreeing, they diminish their power as leaders. With signature humor and good fun, Helen offers a list of best practices, tips and tools to take control to become acknowledged and listened to. This talk will help every woman (and girl) in the room become a more impactful communicator and get taken seriously.
How to Present Well on Camera – any Camera!
60 Minutes journalist Dan Rather wrote a book called The Camera Never Blinks. When he wrote that he was referring only to the television news camera capturing an interview (or life as it was happening). Now, we are in front of digital video cameras, live or recorded, for business and pleasure on and off all day long. We take it for granted. But sometimes, the end product, especially in a professional setting, is not what we hoped it would be. From a career in front of the camera and behind it, Helen Jonsen can guide a roomful of all levels of speakers through best practices in a fun and engaging way. By the end of the talk or workshop, pros will be ready for the next zoom call, stage, or TV interview.
Ugh! The Press Wants to Talk to Me! Whether you have reached out to local media or the national press comes knocking get our organization ready to share its work or insights. Your teams, not just your leadership, must be on board and ready to represent your mission. Get in front of it. Take control and make an impact! Let Helen get them ready as she has done for countless others. Coaching includes how to prep, speak, dress and present yourself. You’ll be glad you did.
Your Career:
The Kaleidoscope Career
A kaleidoscope uses all the same colorful parts, shifts them around and forms an infinite number of beautiful and spectacular images. The same can be said of your talents and skills. You can switch them up but always find an amazing new way to use them.
Helen uses her own career and that of others as examples of refocusing and retooling to challenge yourself and give your best to new clients, employers, or volunteer organizations.
For fun & inspiration
NEW! That Work-Mom Thing:
When did being a mom go from survival tasks to a service job? As a former editor at Working Mother and a big-family mom, Helen sets it straight in a humorous engaging take on doing it all but maybe not all at the same time. This talk is inspirational, based on stories of resilience and day-to-day experience.
Custom Talks:
Let Helen be your advocate and ambassador amplifying your mission.
Professional Interviewer and Moderator:
Whether from center stage, a fireside chat, or a panel discussion, you need a professional emcee and interviewer to keep the event moving and keep both the guest and audience engaged.
Helen is a professional interviewer who has sat across the table or screen from some of the world’s bold-faced names in entertainment, business, philanthropy, government and politics.
In addition, she has moderated and/or designed panels for leading business events including Forbes Power Women, Working Mother Best Companies events, the NY Alliance, and the Swedish-American Executive Women’s Conferences in NYC and Stockholm among others.
Email helen@helenjonsen.com to discuss appearances and other topics.