Enriching Your Career Through Toastmasters
This week’s guest is Elizabeth Ruiz.
In this episode of Career Can Do, Mary Ann Faremouth chats with Elizabeth Ruiz, a prolific leadership and communication consultant with four decades of experience in coaching, training and development. Elizabeth is a board member of several organizations, including the Columbia University Alumni Association. She is also an author and speaker at EAR Enterprises, and a member of the leadership team at District56 Toastmasters - which catapulted her into the lifelong journey of mastering the art of listening. Elizabeth discusses how Toastmasters has impacted her life, and how it continues to impact the lives of others in positive and powerful ways.
Toastmasters Enriches your Personal and Professional Journey
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, the organization's membership exceeds 300,000 in more than 15,800 clubs in 149 countries. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped people from diverse backgrounds become more confident speakers, communicators, and leaders.
Toastmasters’ conferences are wonderful opportunities to build connections while learning and having fun, even presenting attendees with the chance to win prizes. They not only help you hone and polish your public speaking skills, but also enhance your listening skills, and your ability to conduct meetings and present yourself both virtually and in-person. The networking is the icing on the cake - whoever you meet there will undoubtedly enrich your personal and professional lives. The conferences also provide a neutral ground for employers and job-seekers to mingle with each other.
The organization’s Pathways program is a gold mine for personal and professional development, equipped with up to 11 interesting paths - from coaching, to leadership, to digital public speaking - with five levels in each. You can spend anywhere from 6 months to 2 years on completing a Pathway, and you go at your own pace.
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“It’s a wonderful way to learn more about Toastmasters, see the speech contest in action, as well as our leadership team.”
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