PRESENTER: DIANE GREER, MS 

TOPIC: Elevator Pitches


SUMMARY: Everybody dreads the elevator pitch. 60 seconds. Trapped in a tiny moving box with someone who could make or break your career. AND you’re supposed to wow them with a mini-speech all about you?

Okay, I exaggerate. But even if you are not waking up in a cold sweat at the thought of having to tell someone what you do, you probably are not so proud of your elevator pitch that you are ready to shout it to the world. But you should be!

That is because the elevator pitch is both unavoidable and invaluable nowadays. You are not just telling people what you do while you are moving between floors—if you have ever been to a meetup, party, conference, or run into your aunt’s neighbor in the grocery store, you know that somebody can ask you the infamous “What do YOU do?” question anytime, anywhere.

So you CAN feel more comfortable, come and practice your revived elevator pitch with a great group that probably feel just as uncomfortable as you do. Diane Greer is a LinkedIn Consultant and Career Coach. Her mediation work has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and on CBS's Good Morning America. She was a top producing real estate agent from 2002 to 2004 and saved 100's of homes from foreclosure while doing Foreclosure Intervention Counseling. Another of her passions is Restorative Justice, Victim-Offender Reconciliation Mediation.