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What’s the Plot? How to Use Storytelling Breakout Sessions - 9:30-10:30am
to Improve Your Presentation
Joe Anthony, ACB, ALB
Rm 119
During our plot workshop we’ll explore how incorporating short narrative-driven stories can
improve any presentation. Special focus will be paid to briefings, public speeches, sales and
pitches, and how plot devices can be inserted for maximum effect. There will also be Q&A
for addressing specialty speeches, and why plot is necessary for even the driest proposals and
technical presentations.
About the Presenter
Joe Anthony has been a member of Toastmasters International for two years, and a member
of Willamette Writers for six. In that time he has placed in the annual fiction contest twice,
taking the ribbon for 2nd in 2014. Joe is also a charter member for the Portland Toastmasters
club Storymasters, a group that specializes in mapping the narrative arc. Today he is here to
share some of those plot-building tools-- to help you make your pitches and presentations
even more memorable.
