Best selling author, professional speaker, and communication guru, Ms. Debra Fine will lead a custom designed structured networking workshop. A former Engineer, Debra designs her presentations to teach technically oriented professionals conversation skills and networking techniques that help in developing business relationships, improve visibility and gain referrals. Debra’s fast paced, informative and entertaining presentation will offer insightful and informative conversation techniques and networking tips on how to strike up conversations and keep them going, avoid conversation “killers”, develop business relationships and come across as composed and self-assured when interacting at events, meetings, networking functions and other business related gatherings.

Attendees will have the opportunity to sharpen their new skills in this interactive workshop. Complimentary hors-d’oeuvres will be served and cocktails will be available.

About Debra Fine:
Timidly, at first, she dipped her toes into the pool of small talk But, Fine soon realized that conversation, like most things in life, comes easier with practice

Now the formerly shy, tongue-tied "enginerd" is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, trainer and author. A former engineer Debra Fine established her Denver based company The FINE Art of Small Talk to teach all variety of professional and the spouse who is dragged along conversational skills for use at networking events, business conventions, trade shows, and with clients, customers and patients Fine studied the art of conversation as diligently as she had once studied engineering

She is a 15+ year member of the National Speakers Association presenting her programs to hundreds of audiences around the world to clients that include General Electric, Hensel Phelps Construction, Lockheed Martin, Alaska Forum on the Environment, American Bar Association, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Credit Suisse First Boston and New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. Her best selling first book “The Fine Art of Small Talk” was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her recent media appearances include The Today Show, The Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox Business News and CNN.

Debra’s newly released (2008) The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work (Hyperion) is her second in the “Fine Art” series following her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills—and Leave a Positive Impression. View more information about Debra at www.DebraFine.com