{"id":10435,"date":"2016-06-06T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksdigital.com\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:36:44","slug":"brian-sullivan-rocks-digital-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocksdigital.com\/brian-sullivan-rocks-digital-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Sullivan Will Teach How to Own Small-Room Presentations During Workshop at Rocks Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrianBrian Sullivan is an international user experience (UX) researcher, who is passionate about making products that look good and work well. He currently serves as the Director of UX Operations for Sabre, and in his career has worked with AT&T, IBM, Burger King, American Airlines, SkyChefs, United Airlines and Carter Blood Center.<\/p>\n

His presentations are legendary! With more than 14,000 followers on Slideshare<\/a>, Brian\u2019s presentations have been translated into 15 languages. His \u201cDesign Like Da Vinci\u201d presentation was voted to the top spot at SxSW 2013 and \u201cPixel Perfect\u201d was in the Top Five for SxSW 2015.<\/p>\n

He has spoken at SxSW Interactive, Big Design Conference, IA Summit, UXPA International, User Friendly China, CPSI Conference and STC Summit. He founded the Big Design Conference<\/a>, with more than 600 people in attendance each year with speakers from Disney, PayPal, Amazon, Pixar, Adobe and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Locally, Brian is the founder of the UX Dallas Meetup, which has more than 1,500 members; a mentor at the Addison Treehouse, where he consults with local startups launching their businesses; the Instructor of User Research and Usability at Southern Methodist University (SMU); and he\u2019s the author of \u201cThe Design Studio Method,\u201d which released in August 2015.<\/p>\n

Workshop Details<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking in Small Rooms with Confidence<\/span><\/p>\n

Most public speaking does not occur on a stage with a large crowd, big screen, and microphone. In many cases, public speaking occurs in front of a small group in a small room. It might be your clients, prospects, stakeholders or people on your team. The dynamics of small rooms and a small crowd significantly change your public speaking approach.<\/p>\n

When your public speaking occurs close-up, you have several exciting challenges and opportunities. In this talk, we will look at the importance of:<\/p>\n