Are you about to moderate your first panel?
I've moderated hundreds of panels.
👩🏻 Both as a journalist on the trading floor.
💪🏼 And as an entrepreneur.
When I think back to the best panels I moderated, the following 3 things happened:
1. A panelist really went there and got vulnerable. They talked about the time they failed spectacularly and was curled up in a ball in a closet, crying. They could. Their current day raging success spoke for itself. That story doesn't take anything from them. In fact it endeared them to me and the audience more.
2. Panelists were authentically themselves.
3. Panelists were smart and had high value things to say or great stories to tell.
When I think back to the crappiest panelists
1. They needed a lot of reining in because they tended to go off on their soapbox or agenda. It was losing the promise of the panel.
2. They gave one word answers. Like seriously?
3. They were politicians, giving the answer they were supposed to give, rather than add value.
I shared some of my best practices each time I moderate a panel in this cheatsheet.
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This is for you if....
- You are moderating your first panel on stage and want to do a good job
- You want to build your brand with appearances like this
- You are nervous as &*(O). This is me getting mic'ed up for a panel in early days
Who am I?
I was born to immigrant parents. When I announced to them as little girl "I want to be a news anchor," they didn't know how to support that dream.
Not emotionally. Not financially.
I left home at 18. I paid for college by myself. I paid for graduate school by myself. I paid for every move around the country to come to New York City and do what I wanted since I was 4 years old:
Become a news anchor.
I did it. But suddenly, I was thrust into a world of interviewing CEO's on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. There is a playbook for how one shows up those spaces. The small town girl from Pennsylvania in me didn't have it.
So I built it
In the absence of a playbook, the Womens' Leadership Lab to help senior women leaders and business owners to tell better stories about themselves to achieve a business end.
Ask me more at joya@joyadass.com
www.joyadass.com
Brands I have worked with
You asked me questions that nobody has asked me before. For the first time, I connected the dots between my passion, which is information, and purpose, which is that information allows people the freedom to make better decisions.
- K. Manning.
I had to pitch to investors and tell them who I was. Writing my bio with you this year helped boost my confidence. I understood, for the first time, how I get returns on the investments I had made.
DIVYA TANDON
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NEW YORK
As an executive, I always had a big staff and a company name to stand on. Once I went out on my own, it was just me. I needed this one day intensive with you to understand what my 'personal brand' is. I needed your mastermind so I didn't 'whiteknuckle' building my own consultancy alone.
-- E. Glennon.