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About Susan RoAne - Networking and Communication Speaker:

Susan RoAne leads a double life as a bestselling author and a sought-after keynote speaker. Known as The Mingling Maven, she gives multi-generational audiences the required tools, techniques and strategies they need to connect and communicate in today’s global business world. Her practical, informative, and interactive presentations are known for what The San Francisco Chronicle calls her dynamite sense of humor.

Because of her groundbreaking best-seller, How to Work a Room (endorsed by KPMG's late managing partner, Eugene O'Kelly), Susan is considered the undisputed and original networking and conversation expert. Over a million copies of her classic book have been sold worldwide. She also wrote The Secrets of Savvy Networking, What Do I Say Next?, How To Create Your Own Luck and Face To Face: How To Reclaim The Personal Touch in A Digital World.

Her ideas, tips and suggestions are featured in the media around the world - online, on air and in print. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, O Magazine, NPR's TechNation, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Sydney Telegraph, forbes.com, The BBC, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her clients include: Coca Cola Women's Leadership, Office Depot, The American Cancer Society, Kraft Foods, The US Air Force, Ernst and Young, Boeing, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, AVNET, Inc and Hershey Foods.

She received her Master’s Degree from San Francisco State University and her Bachelors from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. A former public school teacher, Susan also guest lectures at major universities such as Yale, The Wharton School, University of Chicago-Booth School, University of Texas Law Schoo, University of Illinois and NYU.

What Susan RoAne Talks About:

Face To Face: How To Reclaim The Personal Touch in a Digital World
As the business world becomes increasingly technology-driven, we are falling intothe hapbit of turning out those around us - whether it's e-mailing the person at the desk next to us or checking our Blackberrys during a business meeting. In this talk, Susan shares tools techniques and tips to increase our face-to-face communication skills, which give us the competitive advantace both in work adn life.

• Combine online communications with offline interactions
• Discover best practices for developing real-time connections
• Break down barriers and build face-to-face relationships

How to Work a Room
Have you ever walked into a roomful of people and felt completely uncomfortable? Whether it's business or personal, over 93% of us identifly ourselves as shyadn ahve a hard tiem meeting people and moving beyond, Hello. In this presentation, Susan RoAne gives attendees invaluable and practical techniques on how to meet, connect adn mingle in any situation.

• Start, maintain and end conversations - graciously
• Prepare strategies in order to increase comfort and productivity
• Build relationships that build the build line

The Secrets of Savvy Networking
The keys to success, if not survival, is building a base of business referrals. It requires a foundation of skillful networking that creates long-lasting business relationships. Savvy networkers are perceived as powerful and effective!

• Converse and connect with colleagues, clients and potential customers
• Identify current network, the gaps and how to fill them
• Avoid the don'ts and networking mishaps and mistakes

Super-Natural Sales: Building A Base of Business Referrals
With competition in the marketplace being keen, the ability to build referrals, and therefore revenue, is the lifeblood of a sale and the foundation of a successful sales career.

• Work a room to generate leads, referrals and resources
• Follow up to turn contacts into contracts
• Make an impression that is positive, memorable and lasting

How To Create Your Own Luck™
Have you ever heard someone's story and thought that they have all the luck? The good news is that luck is available to each and every one of us. Based on the book, this program gives you the tools and techniques to turn random chance into runaway success.

• Identify issues, problems and concerns that can be the basis for successful solutions using the Baby Jogger® model
• Be open to opportunity…see it, hear it and seize it
• Increase serendipity by recognizing small world events, coincidence, and You Never Know moments
• Create your own luck by using the Eight CounterIntuitive Traits so you increase options and possibilities

Give & Get Back: Building Bonds Building Business™
We live in a give and take world, but those who want to build a network of trusted allies know that giving is the lynchpin of loyalty. Relationships are built on reciprocity. Giving includes support, advice, information, recommendations and leads. Identifying our resources and how we can successfully share them with others is easier than we realize.

• Identify your most important achievements and the skills they required
• Develop an action plan to assist and benefit others
• Replicate the top three traits of people who create their own luck
• Make an impression that is positive and lasting