The HollywoodWay: Selling Ideas Through Storytelling

Date: August 13th 5:30-9:30pm/ August 14th 9:00am-1:00pm, 
NOTE: This workshop is Two Four hour sessions.

To make a lasting impact on your audience your presentation has got to hook them early and hold on to them throughout. "Bore your audience and they are going to leave the room even if only metaphorically," Memel says. The HollywoodWay will teach you to use words to paint pictures in the audience’s mind so that they connect with your message on a visceral level. “Get your audience to see what you’re saying and they’ll be able to remember it, repeat it and want to act on it. The barriers to being an effective presenter are in your head.” The HollywoodWay will teach you how to remove the roadblocks, relate to the audience, and leave them wanting to hear more from you.

In this eight hour communication clinic, Memel will work one-on-one with every participant, first diagnosing their current storytelling skills, then guiding them through a series of individual and group exercises to build on their pre-existing skill set. Special attention will be paid to each participant’s unique professional development goals in taking the workshop. Working in a group environment will allow participants to tell stories and gauge their effect on audiences by replicating real world presentation experiences. Each participant will have the opportunity to story tell at least four times over the course of the workshop with feedback from Memel after every round of storytelling. In order to facilitate appropriate individual focus, Registration is limited to 16 participants, so if you’re interested register early!

Participants will emerge from the experience better communicators, more confident in their own skills with solid empirical evidence to back up that confidence.

Once you’ve gone through this workshop you’ll want everyone in your company to learn how to communicate in this fluid, engaging format so that meetings become something to look forward to rather than something to hide from.

Pricing: SOLD OUT

There will be no walk-in pricing; participation is limited to WCNJ members and their guests.  Note that regular pricing for this event is $250; Jana is offering the workshop through a special connection to the Wharton club at a breakeven rate as an East Coast introductory offer.

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Location:

FRIEDMAN LLP
100 Eagle Rock Avenue
East Hanover, NJ 07936

Speaker Bio:

Jana Sue Memel is an Academy award-winning producer and writer who in the course of her twenty-five year career has produced over 25 feature length motion pictures for both television and theatrical exhibition. In addition she has produced over 65 half-hour live action shorts that have played as television series in more than 30 countries around the word. Recent projects she has produced in real time CGI and Virtual 3D have toured the country as a motion control ride and theatrical short. Short films she has produced have won 3 Academy Awards and have been nominated for an additional 8 Oscars in the Live Action Shorts category.  Other films Memel has produced have also been nominated and won Writer and Director Guild Awards, Humanitas Prizes, Cable Aces and Emmy’s. As a Producer/Director Memel created the feature length documentary CHAMPION for Evander Holyfield and wraparounds for ON THE EDGE for Showtime.

As a writer, Memel has adapted FAULTLINE for ABC FAMILY based on the YA novel and RUBY FRUIT JUNGLE for PRN Productions. She has also rewritten Life and Death at 17 for Hoggswood. Currently she is writing In The Middle for director Chris Moore and Alona for Producer Craig Franklin.  In the past she has worked as an additional writer on a pilot for Fox and features at New Line, Warners, Disney, Universal, and Revolution Studios.