Advent Toastmasters Special Meeting

Advent Toastmasters, a Presidents Distinguished award-winning Toastmasters International Clubis presenting a special guest speaker (Trent Berry) at its December 5th meeting. Mr. Berry is part of the award-winning training team at Advent Software and he will be sharing a special message about what matters most when you are speaking to audiences: Caring.

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Advent Toastmasters, a Presidents Distinguished award-winning Toastmasters International Clubis presenting a special guest speaker (Trent Berry) at its December 5th meeting. Mr. Berry is part of the award-winning training team at Advent Software and he will be sharing a special message about what matters most when you are speaking to audiences: Caring.

Mr. Berry is coming to speak to the Advent Toastmasters group as a part of a program launched by the club to expose it's members to speakers outside the organization that are professionals in the public speaking arena.

The special meeting will be held on December 5th, 2011 at 12 noon. The meeting location is at Advent's office located at 600 Townsend (at 7th Street) in the Law Conference room in the Advent Conference Center on the 1st floor.

Advent Toastmasters was started in 2009 by Rodney Paul. Today the Ping Ho is the club president and the club is 22 members strong. Advent Toastmasters members have a common goal - to provide a friendly environment to help people improve their communication skills.

Mr. Berry has a taken a unique path to his current role at Advent. From Ohio, Mr. Berry went to Morehouse and was the debate team president there. After college, Mr. Berry tried law school and then went in search of adventure overseas. He taught English in France and when he got back to the US, he first went to work as a French translator. Then a friend told him about Advent. Mr. Berry got a position in training at Advent and he has not looked back since.

About Toastmasters

Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. The organization has more than 270,000 members in more than 13,000 clubs in 116 countries. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped over 4 million people of all backgrounds learn to speak in front of an audiences with poise and confidence. For more information about Toastmasters, please visit Toastmasters.org.

Labels: Advent Software, public speaking, Toastmasters, training

Event Organizer: Scott Gilbert (Principal at Mesa Verde Solutions Inc)

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