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      <image:title>Testimonials - Thanks for all your help and encouragement in all my media appearances. You are the best!</image:title>
      <image:caption>-Barbara Corcoran, Founder of The Corcoran Group and Television Personality</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Testimonials - Thanks for all your help and encouragement in all my media appearances. You are the best!</image:title>
      <image:caption>-Barbara Corcoran, Founder of The Corcoran Group and Television Personality</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our team’s combined expertise in the field— over 30 years —has taught us that one size doesn’t fit all. We found that when you integrate traditional learning methodologies with creative thinking, you get dynamic learning that delivers. Our approach is proven, engaging, and effective whether we are coaching in-person or virtually. That’s what differentiates us.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-01-31</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2020-02-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Nanette dewester, president</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nanette launched The DeWester Group after 14 years in the training industry to leverage the collective expertise of a trusted team of professional development associates and thought leaders. This alliance provides clients with a broad range of proven creative solutions from experts in the industry. From her background in the arts coupled with her experience in the business world, Nanette developed a unique training approach that’s well suited for all “improvised” public speaking formats. Her strategy is to focus on an engaging style of communication that emphasizes the speakers’ connection to their topic. This enables her clients to consistently deliver convincing messages that are authentic and heard.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Christina eisinger, senior associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chris drives powerful, transformative results in leadership development. After working with Chris, leaders are more emotionally intelligent, better visionaries, more effective communicators and able to deliver on their objectives. These outcomes enable high levels of employee engagement – a competitive advantage – for large, global organizations.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - jason ross, senior associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jason Ross is a seasoned, leader, consultant and facilitator. Jason's approach with coaching is firmly based in effective listening and collaboration with clients to help them create and achieve their goals. Passionate about leadership and professional development, Jason has been coaching and mentoring individuals and groups in the federal government, consulting field and academia for 10 years.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Michael teape, senior associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Michael brings over 20 years’ experience in Finance, Travel &amp; Engineering as a Facilitator, coach &amp; CLO with a reputation for anchoring learning back in the workplace. With considerable Training delivery &amp; design experience in the US, UK and overseas, Michael enjoys working with organizations to improve business effectiveness and assist with the development of current and future capability through a highly interactive skills practice approach.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Geoff Tarson, Senior Associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Geoff has worked extensively as a performer and teacher for over twenty years. He is a seasoned improvisor, having performed on stage with Wayne Brady, Mike McShane, Brad Sherwood, and Fred Willard, among others. He has also taught improvisation at Acme Comedy Theatre, Los Angeles Theatresports, and Freestyle Repertory Theatre. And that experience led him to become a trainer and facilitator in the corporate world.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Gail Parker, Senior Associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gail Parker has over 20 years of experience developing impactful communications with groups and key leaders at Fortune 500 and Am Law 100 firms all over the world. Programs include skill building for: presentations, presence, keynote speeches, media interviews, critical thinking, panel discussions and emotional intelligence. As a corporate coach, Gail also works with individuals on life as well as business decisions.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - diane dicroce, senior associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Diane DiCroce has been teaching communication and presentation skills since 2007. As an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts/Musical Theatre at Emerson College, and as a corporate trainer, Diane enables participants to bring the best of themselves to any communication situation. Her technique ensures they'll get maximum impact and, ultimately, results.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - Amanda dewester, associate, legal services specialist</image:title>
      <image:caption>With over 10 years of experience helping people through difficult situations, Amanda DeWester has developed strategies for assisting people in coping with difficult news, mediating agreements, strengthening business relationships, and developing solutions to improve their lives. In addition to coaching, she is a practicing attorney who specializes in counseling clients with debt problems, garnishments and foreclosures.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - arthur atkinson, associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Arthur brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and creative problem solving skills to The DeWester Group. He has over 20 years of experience as an actor and improviser in film and on stage both in New York and on tours across the country and internationally. Arthur has performed at many corporate functions, working with executives from the Financial, Pharmaceutical, and Publishing industries, among others.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Who We Are - erin cronican, associate</image:title>
      <image:caption>Erin Cronican is a seasoned live-encounter trainer with experience in the medical, financial, technology, law enforcement, military and legal industries. Her experience as a communications manager (in both the corporate and non-profit sectors) is blended with her extensive background a professional actor, allowing her to lead lively, improvised training sessions for managers of all levels, giving practical experience in modern communication methods.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-06-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Rockefeller Foundation's Veronica Olazabal and fellow panelists Silvia Salinas and Adeline Sibanda share insights on Decolonizing Data and Technology at MERL Tech 2019 Image courtesy of MERL Tech 2019</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Professional Development - Mastering the art of selling: sales training for individuals + teams</image:title>
      <image:caption>Understanding how to develop business is fundamental to any organization and having a well-trained sales team is the first step toward achieving needed growth and sustaining your customer base. This two-day intensive offers a proven sales training approach to increase sales, achieve team goals, build better customer relationships, manage difficult conversations, influence decision making, and, know when and how to confidently close the sale.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A well-told story is one of the best ways for anyone to compel, captivate, and inspire others. It’s is proven tool to boost the effectiveness of business, especially in knowledge management, organizational development, coaching, and sales. It’s a critical skill for public speaking and instrumental to building trust in relationships. We’ll give you the key skills needed to develop and deliver business appropriate stories, as well as when and how to use them.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Professional Development - Media skills</image:title>
      <image:caption>We’ll develop talking points that go beyond “sound bites” to a powerful, selling message delivered with conversational ease and sincerity. It’s a customized session that prepares for all national media such as morning shows, prime-time cable, principal NPR programs and printed media. Includes telephone and e-mail follow-up.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The only constant is change. Knowing how to manage it and encourage flexible thinking will help you improve morale and resilience, generate better solutions, build teams, and foster innovation. This course will improve your ability to navigate growth and develop a positive approach to ideation. Topics include brainstorming techniques, innovative work environments, strategies to promote creative thinking, developing team flexibility, playfulness for stress reduction and performance improvement, and understanding how to leverage your creative strengths.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Professional Development - Pitch Coaching and Presenting With Others</image:title>
      <image:caption>Most pitches fail before they start because the team doesn’t follow crucial steps in the pitching process. Winning the business can only happen if you perform as a cohesive team who can communicate their value. This customized session will give client-facing individuals a successful approach to structuring and delivering pitches, private coaching, pitch design support, and influencing strategies that ensures you’re persuasive and heard.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Influence and persuasion go hand in hand and yet need distinctly different strategic and ethical approaches. You’ll learn the tools needed to gain influence, understand the psychology of persuasion, and, how to be influential across many business contexts. We’ll discuss topics such as tactics, how to shape perception, crafting a persuasive message, a principled negotiation, subconscious triggers, verbal and non-verbal signals, and, how to avoid manipulation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Success in business depends on the ability to present with poise, persuasiveness and conviction in all contexts— from conference calls to town halls. Our sessions will cover those techniques and will enable you to feel and look confident when you deliver your messages. We’ll cover skills such as how to relax, project your voice, craft a concise message, handle tough questions so you communicate with clarity and confidence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Communicating well is the most important competency to master — in work and life. It’s the life-blood of change management, team trust, success across cultures, and a crucial part of great leadership. This course will give you the knowledge and skills to manage every interaction. You’ll improve listening skills, effectively structure your messages, understand communication styles, read non-verbal signals, diffuse difficult situations, and ensure that you’re clear and understood whenever you communicate. We’ll also troubleshoot the do’s and don’ts of technology when you connect, and, cover the best practices for virtual environments.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Thinking on your feet and communicating with credibility are necessary skills for anyone who’s had to deliver under pressure with little or no time to prepare. By learning improvisation and performance techniques you’ll have the skills needed to not only land running, but also improve your flexibility to handle tough conversations, reframe thinking, improve morale, build teams, boost confidence, and create a resilient mindset.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We often support our clients through challenging life transitions, uncover unconscious barriers to success, help them develop a clear path to achievement, provide clarity to create a better work to life balance, and empower them to make tough decisions so they can live a happier and healthier life.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coaching has become an indispensable tool to help legal professionals remain competitive in the market, build client rosters, and to improve communication and management competencies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We help our clients assess their overall needs, create focused goals, and improve their skills so they can advance both personally and professionally.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-06-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Having Executive Presence is important for any leader. By mastering the unspoken and spoken behaviors that define it can empower leaders to motivate performance, model self-leadership, improve communication, and inspire teams. It can also be a factor in getting a promotion by creating either a barrier or bridge to the next level in your career. Mastering Executive Presence combines proven techniques in creating a genuine, charismatic presence with the latest research on impact. This course will help you go from an effective communicator to compelling leader.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Most pitches fail before they start because the team doesn’t follow crucial steps in the pitching process. You might have the best idea they’ve heard, but winning the business can only happen if you perform as a cohesive team who can communicate their value to others. This customized course provides leaders and teams with a winning process, strategic coaching, and pitching practice (philosophy, approach) needed to win the business.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Keynotes offer you a helpful way to learn great information when you have a short time to hear it. Our keynotes are engaging, entertaining, inspirational, and of course, educational. We speak on a variety of topics from innovation to positive psychology and offer 30-90 minute talks that can kick off a conference, enhance a lunch and learn, or close an off-site event.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anyone who needs a quick, effective way to achieve their public speaking goals can benefit from Individual Speech Coaching. In these private sessions, we help our clients craft and deliver tough messages, town hall presentations, panel commentary, improve their speaking voice, enhance their presence, bridge style or political communication challenges, and build confidence in all interactions. Sessions are tailored to the client and range in duration based on their needs.</image:caption>
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