WITI San Diego presents a Speaker Series Workshop:

"Women as Leaders", an interactive workshop presented by Jenni Prisk, Prisk Communication.

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Join us as Jenni Prisk, noted national speaker, leads a workshop that explores topics pertinent to women and their leadership roles in society. As our world changes and the roles we occupy within it, we work hard to achieve our professional goals in life, yet most professional women feel many pressures as they balance personal and professional lives.

Workshop key discussion points include:

1. What makes you a leader? Identify your passions and values.

2. What are the factors that affect women's ability to function best as leaders? Communication styles?

3. How do you apply your leadership professionally and personally?

4. Where would you like your leadership to take you? Develop your blueprint for your future.

About Our Speaker(s)

Bio of Jenni Prisk:

An award-winning motivational speaker, communications coach and trainer, Jenni Prisk founded Prisk Communication in 1989. Her mission is to provide comprehensive and outstanding training in public speaking and communication skills that will remove the associated risk and fears, engendering confidence, effectiveness and positive results.

With a growing nationwide client list, Jenni works with companies and individuals in diverse aspects of communication. A native of New Zealand, she holds a Diploma in Adult Teaching and is qualified as a Human Relations and Communications Instructor for the New Zealand Marriage Guidance Council. She also has a Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College of London England.

Jenni has served as both opening speaker and keynote for several national business conferences. She is a frequently requested speaker on a variety of topics, including “There Is No ‘I’ in Team,” “Become a S.E.X. Symbol,” “Vocal Vim, Vigor and Vitality,” and “Polish your Public Performance.” Jenni has been the opening speaker for former Governor Ann Richards at a women’s conference.

Her diverse background includes working in the newspaper industry where she received four writing awards, two from the San Diego Press Club. In 1994, she received the San Diego Business Journal’s Award for Women Who Mean Business, and was nominated in 2000. In 1995, Jenni was a finalist in Bank of America’s first Enterprise Award Program, as well as an honoree in the Women Together Awards. In 1999, she was honored as a regional finalist in Working Woman magazine’s first Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Program. In collaboration with P.R.I.D.E. Inc. Jenni developed a public speaking and communications course for developmentally disabled adults.

Jenni Prisk is a co-author of ASTD’s Trainer’s Workshop Series Communication Skills Training,
published December, 2004.

Jenni is an Associate Member of TEC, an International Community of Chief Executives; member of the National American Society for Training and Development (ASTD); the San Diego Press Club; and a board member of the Actors Alliance of San Diego.

An avid volunteer, Jenni has given time and energy to many local charities including Mama’s Kitchen, the YWCA, the Old Globe Theatre and the County Mental Health Center. She frequently anchors KPBS TV San Diego fundraisers, and has interviewed numerous guests who include
Dr. Ken Blanchard, Sarah Brightman, Paul Anka, JohnTesh, Patti LuPone and Dr. Wayne Dyer.
Jenni writes a weekly column on what’s happening in San Diego theatre for TheatreScene e-zine. For eight years she read stories weekly to first graders at Cadman Elementary School, in San Diego.

Jenni conceived and co-produced Artists for Asia where she and a fellow actor assembled a band of theater professionals who performed a benefit performance at the Lyceum Theatre for victims of the 2004 Tsunami.

Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, Jenni founded Voices of Women (VOW), an international forum for non-military solutions, to foster global peace, justice and equality around the world. For more information, please visit www.voicesofwomen.org.

Jenni resides with her husband, Kim, in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego.

Event Date and Venue

This event will be held from 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at:

Fish & Richardson, P.C. campus
12390 El Camino Real
San Diego, California 92130
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: registration/networking/lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM: Program/Q&A

Pre-registration for this event is closed and on-site registrations will not be accepted.

Contact Us

For more info regarding registration or event details, please contact Jennifer Beckey (858-344-3825) ([email protected]).

For more details about pre-registration, contact Tech Support.