$1,295 • PRSA members: $1,095

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Spend two great days with the best speechwriters in the world and learn how to:

• Make your speeches more persuasive, moving and memorable by using structure, language, story and humor
• Get more mileage out of your speeches by repurposing them for podcasts and blogs
• Develop a strategy to tackle every speech you write and use plain language to explain complicated concepts
• Write speeches for a global audience that reach across barriers of language, culture and nationality
• Create visuals that will match the core message and intention of your speech and enhance your speaker’s presentation

Must-see keynotes that will inspire you to achieve new heights in your speechwriting:

		Opening Keynote: Robert Schlesinger, veteran journalist and author, will take you behind the scenes for the making of the most memorable presidential speeches, from the perspective of their speechwriters.
		Luncheon Keynote: Jerry Tarver, professor emeritus and leading teacher of speechwriters, will tell you why Aristotle’s centuries-old theories on rhetoric continue to be relevant in today’s speechwriting.
		Special Keynote: Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel, adviser and legendary speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, shares his experiences on writing presidential speeches during some of the most dramatic moments in American history.

“If no other speechwriter ever had Sorensen’s access, then it is probably also true that no politician ever benefited more from his wordsmith’s talents than Kennedy did. Nothing in recent memory compares to the body of work that Sorensen and Kennedy authored collaboratively.”
—Ted Widmer for The Washington Post

Don’t miss the only training and networking event for speechwriters

• New speechwriters will learn everything there is to know about writing speeches. You’ll leave with style tips and storytelling techniques from the best teachers and practitioners of the craft.
• Executive communicators who juggle many responsibilities will learn how to incorporate motivation into their communications and find creative ways to repurpose
  a speech for new media.
• Corporate speechwriters will learn how to best capture their speaker’s voice and speaking style, as well as coach them through presentation jitters.
• Government speechwriters will hear from colleagues who share their experiences writing speeches for the West Wing and the Pentagon.
• Freelance speechwriters will learn the secrets to making a living doing what you love and how to take advantage of proven methods for finding speechwriting work.
• Veteran speechwriters will learn new tricks, make new contacts and find new inspiration for their speechwriting.
• Communication generalists will get all the tools to add speechwriting to your skill set. Over the years, this conference has launched many speechwriting careers!

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PRSA members register now! for The 2009 Speechwriters Conference now for only $1,095.