SAC Business Accelerator Labs are interactive hands-on Zoom webinars that are limited to no more than 10 participants. We’ve created this virtual workshop as an opportunity to put into practice new skills and strategies–without ever leaving your desk.
“Linda Popky’s ‘The Write Now webinar’ is first-rate: informative, clear, interesting, and very practical. It left me with lots of good new ideas and feeling inspired. She’s the go-to expert on writing your own promotional materials!”
– Leslie Austin, PhD, leslieaustin.com
We are in the process of scheduling Labs on additional topics. If you have a topic you’d like to see included, please contact us.
Fees (unless otherwise priced)
SAC Members: $79.00
General Public: $159.00
Upcoming Labs
September 15, 2022 – 11:00-12:30pm PDT (1.5 hours)
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Andrew Winig: Introduce Yourself (in 30 Seconds)
Quick! It’s your turn!
How are you going to introduce yourself, develop trust, highlight your services, encourage referrals, and demonstrate your expertise in only 30 seconds?
In this interactive workshop you’ll learn how to create an effective 30-Second Elevator Pitch. We’ll cover:
- What fits in 30 seconds (and what’s best to leave out)
- How to practice (hint: don’t use a mirror)
- One technique that makes you clear and concise (no more rambling!)
- An approach that automatically makes people think of qualified referrals for you
By the end of this 90-minute workshop you’ll have two personalized introductions that grab people’s attention, start productive conversations, and lead to more qualified leads.
About the Speaker
Andrew Winig is an Elevator Pitch Coach who uses his improvisational, musical theater, and business backgrounds to make his virtual and in-person programs fun, entertaining, engaging, and practical.
Andrew found that the typical advice for creating an Elevator Pitch felt awkward and didn’t lead to any referrals for his businesses. Over 8 years he applied his engineering mind to identify and test new skills in search of a simple approach that works consistently. His ground-breaking book “Elevator Pitch Handbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Conversations” condenses what he discovered into 51 readable pages that will forever change the way you talk about what you do. Andrew wants you to get better leads from your Elevator Pitch and shares his unique and effective techniques through email newsletters, virtual and in-person workshops, private coaching, and keynote speeches. You can sign up for his weekly Elevator Pitch Tips Email Newsletter at https://improvandy.com
Past Labs
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Lisa Anderson: Get Known
During these unprecedented times, you must be not only findable, but also compelling as a thought leader to draw attention from clients and prospects. Consultants who are visible in the public forum and create interest in their body of work continue to achieve success. During this hands-on workshop, we’ll create a short thought leadership piece and a plan for communication and promotion. You’ll walk away with a new piece for your portfolio and an understanding of the next steps to build thought leadership. SAC Business Accelerator Lab will be held on Oct 6th via Zoom. Register soon because we limit the number of people to ensure an effective interactive experience.
About the Speaker
SAC Executive Director and award-winning business performance expert Lisa Anderson, the founder and president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., specializes in manufacturing strategy and end-to-end supply chain transformation that maximizes the customer experience and enables profitable, scalable, dramatic business growth. Lisa is President of the Inland Empire Chapter of APICS (national trade organization supply chain), one of the most active and innovative chapters in the United States. She has been instrumental in engaging students and has fostered the environment that has earned national recognition for the students from Harvey Mudd College and Cal Poly Pomona.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- March 16, 2021
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Judy Dang: Refresh and Refocus for Q4
Bring a stack of post-its. This is a working session. Judy will lead us through exercises to review the year and create a simple action plan for Q4. What worked well this year? What needs to change so you have a successful end to 2021? You’ll leave with a one-page action plan for how to prioritize what to do next in your business for Q4.
About the Speaker
Judy Dang is a productivity coach for solopreneurs who want to get out of the Crazy Busy trap. She helps them declutter their to-do list and reduce their mental load so they can focus on what’s most important.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- September 14, 2021
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
Liz de Clifford: Speak Up!
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
A Zoom webinar. You will walk away with a short speech that fits well into what works into today’s speaking world as well as tips for finding and giving the speech in today’s environment. Because of the interactive nature of this workshop, attendance is extremely limited.
About the Speaker
Liz de Clifford has more than 20 years of experience collaborating with business leaders who need to improve their presence, connect with audiences, and achieve results. She has worked with executives at companies such as Google, coached start-ups seeking to secure funding, and executives who need to make an important speech at a conference, seminar, or corporate retreat. Born in England with work experience in Australia and South Africa, Liz also serves clients who seek to reach an international audience.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- February 24, 2021
- August 4, 2020
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
Linda Popky: Write Now: How to Create Content That Drives Your Business in Today’s Environment
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Have your laptop ready. This is a working session!
Want to learn how to write a press release, a blog post, or an op-ed that gets read and gets you known? Would you like to be able to create multiple types of content based on the same concept, quickly and easily? In this SAC Business Accelerator Lab, Linda Popky will take us step by step from idea to writing a strategic press release, blog post or an op-ed that will get read by our target markets.
Join us for this hands-on session that will help take out the stress and anxiety about creating content for your business. You’ll create at least one piece of content during the session, and you’ll learn how to get your piece published. So come with a topic idea you’d like to see published. You’ll leave with a finished piece, guidelines for creating additional pieces, and a plan for what to do next to get your work published.
Linda will also share her formula for leveraging intellectual property across multiple media, rather than reinventing the wheel every time you try to create content. You will never look at content creation the same way again.
About the Speaker
SAC Executive Director Linda Popky is an award winning marketing consultant who has not only written marketing and PR materials for clients, she’s authored her own books, and written and edited commercially published books for other authors. Her blog posts are regularly published by C-Suite Networks, MultiBriefs, CommPro, and others.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- February 25, 2021
- July 15, 2020
- June 11, 2020
- December 4, 2019
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
Amy Segami: Talking TED: The Process, Production, and Performance
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
TED Talks provide credibility and visibility globally. It’s a great way for thought leaders to spread their ideas worldwide. However, not all TED Talks are of the same quality.
This interactive workshop will give you the tools you need to create an effective thought leadership piece by crafting and producing an outstanding TED Talk.
Workshop leader Amy Segami is a trusted advisor for TEDxChicago. After speaking at the inaugural TEDx in Atlanta, she founded and produced TEDxIIT—the longest-running independently organized TED event in Chicago—and continues to develop and deliver outstanding TED Talks.
Amy has worked with hundreds of international speakers—from scientists to entrepreneurs who speak on the round red carpet. Through her insights and proven process, she demystifies what it takes to have a TED Talk mindset and be an effective TED or TEDx event speaker.
Session goals and takeaways:
- Pitch your TED Talk effectively
- Craft your TED Talk professionally
- Deliver your TED Talk successfully
This is an interactive hands-on Zoom workshop that will be limited to no more than 10 participants. Attendees should have watched at least three TED Talks prior to the workshop.
About the Speaker:
Amy Lee Segami is an engineer turned artist, entrepreneur and international marketing executive featured on BBC, NPR, Chicago Crain’s Business and TED Blog. Born in China, raised in Hong Kong, and educated in the US, her life’s work is mastering the complexity of change. As a business consultant and keynote speaker, she provides valuable insights into leadership and innovation. She is the winner of the SAC Emerging Consultant Advancing Consultant Award 2019.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- February 27, 2020
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Mark D. Wolf: Facilitate This: How to Uplevel Virtual Meetings and Workshops
Today’s new normal is almost entirely virtual meetings the result of which is an absence of face-to-face interaction. Clients are not getting the same level of result without your presence in the room. Meetings, workshops, and trainings yield less focus in a virtual setting.
The result for consultant impact is diffuse; virtual meetings limits engagement, trust, and optimal outcomes for your clients/participants. This interactive workshop will give you new facilitation tools and provide practical experience in creating more effective, more impactful virtual client meetings and workshops.
You will be able to apply what you learn about facilitation immediately with effect in your next meeting or training. You will come away with easy-to-implement approaches that strengthen client/participant impact, thereby increasing trust and engagement that will lead to greater impact and outcomes. This is an interactive hands-on Zoom workshop that will be limited to no more than 12 participants. 2.5 hours.
About the Speaker
Mark D. Wolf is a sustainability consultant and executive coach who works with leaders to integrate sustainability into business strategy, operations, and culture. He has decades of experience facilitating client meetings, strategy sessions, peer-to-peer learning, and B2B/B2C groups working with F500 companies, SMEs and NGOs. Mark is a co-author of the forthcoming SAC Press book, The Strategic Supply Chain: How Executives Can Thrive Post COVID.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- November 19, 2020
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.
A SAC Business Accelerator Lab
Diane Garcia: Facilitate This: How to Uplevel Virtual Meetings and Workshops
Today’s new normal is almost entirely virtual meetings the result of which is an absence of face-to-face interaction. Clients are not getting the same level of result without your presence in the room. Meetings, workshops, and trainings yield less focus in a virtual setting.
The result for consultant impact is diffuse; virtual meetings limits engagement, trust, and optimal outcomes for your clients/participants. This interactive workshop will give you new facilitation tools and provide practical experience in creating more effective, more impactful virtual client meetings and workshops.
You will be able to apply what you learn about facilitation immediately with effect in your next meeting or training. You will come away with easy-to-implement approaches that strengthen client/participant impact, thereby increasing trust and engagement that will lead to greater impact and outcomes. This is an interactive hands-on Zoom workshop that will be limited to no more than 12 participants.
About the Speaker
Diane L. Garcia (Lorraine Consulting, LLC), has over 13 years experience in supply chain management and is an expert in helping clients improve on their unique operational business processes. Through the prestigious W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Diane learned cutting edge supply chain performance optimization knowledge and implements these best practices with manufacturing and distribution companies in North America. From Fortune 500 companies to sole proprietor businesses, Diane actively participates in the delivery of solutions by assessing current state and thoroughly analyzing client business requirements.
Prior sessions offered of this lab:
- December 17, 2021
- May 18, 2021
Please let us know if you’d be interested in another session of this lab.