Topic: Inside Scoop on Presentation and Interviews
Speaker: Susan Murphy
4pm- 5pm – Knoll & Milliken Networking Happy Hour
5pm-7pm –Workshop
This is a IIDA member only event. There will be a limit on tickets.
Event will be hosted at CI Select.
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The Inside Scoop on Presentation and Interviews: How to Showcase your Firm's Talent and
Expertise
Nobody knows presentations and interviews in the world of AEC like Susan Murphy. This ses-sion
uses the best of her extensive experience and knowledge and breaks that down for you to
practice in the here and now. Susan doesn't play games or have you practice acting; she gives
you concrete professional information and shows you how to use it immediately.
This high-spirited and fun program begins with helping you figure out what should go into your
presentation or interview. What "bait" will get that desired client or audience to respond to
your ideas. From colleagues to clients, you will learn how to communicate for results.
The session proceeds, showing you how to back up your intellectual bait with the physical
skills that make you look as smart, experienced and professional as you are. You will also
learn how to coach your teams.
This is not a lecture program. Susan puts you to work and guide you in practicing proven
skills in your own way. This is not personality dependent. You will leave this session with a
new awareness of your skills as well as some newfound approaches to landing the big one.
You will also have a terrific time. Susan Murphy is hilarious.
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About Susan
Susan Murphy was born in St. Louis, graduated from St. Louis University, and grew up thinking the Botanical Gardens (free in those days) was her backyard.
Susan Murphy has in-depth knowledge and experience in the AEC industry. She has spent the last twenty-nine years helping architects, engineers and construction firms hone their presentation and interview skills.
Murphy, as most know her, has had a mapquest worthy career path. In high school and college, she worked in retail and as a fashion coordinator, went on to teach high school English at Roosevelt High School, moved to the travel industry headquartered in Boston, where she began as an international tour director and ended as Director of Travel Industry Marketing for Club Med.
In 1976, Susan married her late husband, Ullrich Klamm, and moved to New York.
A career change found Susan at Communispond, the world’s leading communication skills consultant at the time, and fate led her to a SMPS National Conference, where she filled in for a cancelled speaker and was smitten by the industry.
Susan founded Murphy Motivation and Training to focus on the AEC world and thinks she is the luckiest woman on the planet to have found her niche.
Susan divides her time between Beaufort, SC and Bozouls, France. When she isn’t teaching, coaching or writing, she hikes with her rescue boyfriends, Puppy Boy Frankie, and Jean Jacques, the French Orphan cat. Neither of them is very impressed with her training abilities.
Susan also writes an advice column “Aunt Bossy: Dear Abby on Steroids” which can be found in the “Lowcountry Weekly.”