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The transformational experience to ELEVATE YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS

into actionable thought leadership

TRANSFORM IDEAS INTO REVENUE

WHAT IS MIXING CHAMBER®

Like a TED-style event for your company, MIXING CHAMBER® is the transformational experience for teams that want to quickly and dramatically improve the quality and impact of their presentation skills. For professionals who aspire to become more visible, influential thought leaders. And for groups that need a proven structure for curating, communicating and activating their most groundbreaking ideas.

It’s a powerful process streamlined into one customized package to boost stage presence, amplify innovation and drive revenue.

Whether you wish to improve your sales force’s ability to pitch and win new business, develop a cadre of polished thought leaders who raise your company’s profile, give your high potentials a crucial, career-expanding skill set, or expand and activate your capacity for innovation, MIXING CHAMBER® is the solution to get you there.

AND IN JUST A FEW WEEKS (NOT MONTHS LIKE SOME PROGRAMS!), PARTICIPANTS WILL…

Elevate your company’s public profile in the competitive arena of thought leadership

Uncover, clarify and communicate your BEST IDEAS

Gain a quick, reliable framework to ferret out and develop unstructured thoughts and ideas to turn them into clear, COMPELLING PITCHES and short talks

Expand your capacity for idea generation, activation and REVENUE GENERATION

YOUR PLUG-AND-PLAY PROGRAM ALSO HELPS TEAMS:

Identify and innovate around the most VALUABLE, MARKETABLE IDEAS

Differentiate your organization’s culture from the competition’s

Recruit and RETAIN TOP TALENT with more ease

Engage select prospects, clients, and vendors

Reward and further develop your high potentials

And inevitably change the world.

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WHYMIXING CHAMBER®

An organization’s ability to uncover, engagingly describe, and activate viable ideas separates exceptional market leaders and thought leaders from status-quo organizations. The capacity to connect and cross pollinate across disciplines and teams catalyzes everyone’s success.

Add to this the increasing popularity of curated talks that showcase and spread big ideas, and we now have more tools than ever to expand innovation and drive revenue growth.

As Head of TED Chris Anderson explains in his book TED Talks,

“However much public speaking skills matter today, they’re going to MATTER EVEN MORE IN THE FUTURE … We’re entering an era where we all need to spend a lot more time learning from each other. And that means far more people than ever before can contribute to this collective learning process. Anyone who has a unique piece of work or a unique insight can productively participate. And that includes you.”

Anderson adds that the TED event experience is thrilling because the conference reflects the reality that all KNOWLEDGE IS CONNECTED INTO A GIANT WEB. TED works not just because of “the synergy between technology, entertainment, and design” (the words from which the TED acronym originates), but because of the interconnectedness of all knowledge.

“... the central advice I would give is to PUSH YOURSELF AS HARD AS POSSIBLE to be bold and brave, to try to step OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE of what you know for sure or what others have said already, and to give the world questions and inspirations that deserve a thousand conversations. It’s not about being right or safe…so much as about having a staggering opportunity to create something that will breed further ideas.”

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HOWMIXING CHAMBER® WORKSSo how do we build and nurture these deep levels of learning and knowledge exchange?

Our deep bench of story strategists, coaches, speech writers and curators, all with ongoing experience in the TED community, will unearth and nurture your top thinkers and doers. And give them the skills, a-ha’s, and confidence to present like pros, drive more brand awareness, build a more influential PR platform, boost sales, and expand innovation efforts.

6 KEY COMPONENTS:

Curating an integral group of your most COMPELLING IDEA PEOPLE

Helping them uncover and hone their most game-changing and REVENUE-DRIVING IDEAS

Providing them with TOP-TIER, TED-STYLE PRESENTATION buy-in training as well as content- and slide-development support

Inviting them—along with employees and stakeholders—to a private LIVE EVENT where your coached presenters deliver their curated ideas in short, provocative talks, punctuated with ideation sessions to CROSS-POLLINATE DISCIPLINES and generate new insights

Applying custom metrics that determine the QUANTIFIABLE IMPACT of your Mixing Chamber

Completing the circle with an optional, expertly FACILITATED LAB SESSION with a top TEDx speaker that activates your most important ideas to make them real

“THE ONLY REASON TO GIVE A SPEECH IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.”

~JOHN F. KENNEDY

photo by Gage Skidmore on Flickr

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WHO MIXING CHAMBER® TEAM

ANDREA DRIESSENCreator of Mixing Chamber, Andrea is a TEDActive and TEDSummit attendee. Andrea has been on the speaker curation and community partnerships teams at TEDxSeattle for over 6 years. As Chief Boredom Buster at No More Boring Meetings, she’s also an international award-winning business owner who books compelling thought leaders, designs fresh meeting formats, and fosters purposeful play. A regular contributor to The Huffington Post and The Meeting Professional magazine, she’s been serving the meetings industry for 25 years.

LISA PHELPS DAWES A multiple Emmy winner, Lisa, in her role as co-chair for the TEDxSeattle Speaker Team, is responsible for discovering, developing, and curating the final lineup of speakers to create ideas worth spreading. As an executive storyteller, Lisa has helped global leaders ignite cultural change, deliver an arresting vision, and step into true thought leadership. Whether it’s a keynote, pitch, article, or video, for more than 20 years, Lisa has leveraged her creative and narrative skills to help clients tell the story audiences long to hear and want to act on. She’s won two dozen awards including four Emmys.

JACQUELINE FARRINGTON Jacqueline has over 18 years of experience helping senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies deliver successful communication strategies, as well as 14 years as a Lecturer at the Yale School of Drama. As a member of the TEDxSeattle speaker team, she curates speakers, develops talks and coaches presenters. Her global and diverse clientele includes C-suite executives, politicians, scientists, and teenagers. Jacqueline supports them in building presence, developing high-impact keynotes, planning events, designing and implementing change initiatives and employee/audience engagement strategies.

SHWORLDWIDEAs an event-management partner with the 2800-attendee TEDxSeattle event each year, SHWorldwide is the preferred global choice for high-impact meeting and event experiences. Their team delivers the “event experience” that generates real outcomes and lasting results for clients including Amazon, Bungie, Microsoft, Nintendo and more.

“Andrea Driessen is a consummate professional with a keen eye for detail and a clear understanding of our big picture—a true business partner. She goes above and beyond to make the experience enjoyable and worry-free.”

— United Federal Credit Union

“I’ve hired Lisa on three different occasions. Each time I’ve been impressed with her professionalism, ability to collaborate, jaw-dropping creativity and outstanding writing skills. But the real reason to hire Lisa is her brain. It’s rare to find someone with fully developed creative skills who is also a first-rate marketing strategist. Lisa cares about the message and who it’s reaching"

— Cherylynne Crowther, StorySeller Media

"Jacqueline is an outstanding career coach and communications expert. She is able to deliver excellent results even in difficult circumstances and provides thought provoking ideas consistently."

— Carole Irvine, COO, Global Change Management, Barclays Credit

I’ve had the pleasure of working with various members of the SHW events team over the past few years. All members of the team are professional, thorough, timely, and detail oriented. I have such a high level of confidence in their work that they afford me the luxury of focusing my time on other aspects of the project.

— Nam Ng, TwC Communications Security Strategist, Microsoft

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