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Do you feel you’ve built a body of knowledge that others would pay money to learn – and that you have the charisma and skills to share it successfully with lecture hall audiences? Come to the Women’s Business Forum’s free Wednesday morning meeting on May 2 and learn from a seasoned speaker how you can take your polished presentation on the road for a re- imagined career as a professional speaker.

Beginning in 1995 with AIDS awareness presentations, Elaine Pasqua combined her life experience, passion and enthusiasm to become one of the premier school and college campus speakers on the consequences of high-risk behaviors. Along with transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of students, she has recently parleyed her growing skills and renown into an expanded career speaking to professional athletes and corporations as an advocate for responsible choices.

On May 2, Pasqua will provide pointers on developing your speaking career, covering such key steps as

developing a terrific speech that makes them want you back

marketing yourself to the audiences you want to reach

crafting or revising contracts that cover you suffiently

opening yourself to see opportunities that can keep your career fresh and exciting and take it in directions you’d never imagined

Pasqua is a four-time nominee for Best Speaker of the Year for Campus Activities Magazine Reader’s Choice Awards. She is a contributing columnist for the magazine’s “Real Life on Campus” and a contributing author of Dr. Will Keim’s book, Welcome to the Time of Your Life. She has been featured in USA Today, NY1 News, Time Warner TV and Knight Ridder News Service. Pasqua co-wrote, directed and produced the video “Be Aware of the Risks of Date Rape Drugs,” which has been viewed more than 561,000 times on YouTube. www.ElainePasqua.com