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Best of Show: Experience top speakers from the 2015 World Conference

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What an honour - I've been invited to participate in a webinar series along-side my communication idols. Below is the information on the webinar series from the IABC website. The Best of Show webinar series is a global virtual learning experience that takes highly rated sessions from the World Conference and brings them directly to you. IABC are building on the success of the 2015 event and offering you a chance to draw from some of the best presentations at the conference and preview the kind of high-quality learning you can expect at the 2016 event in New Orleans. Choose from five outstanding webinar sessions—or get a discount and sign up for all five! The elite among our conference presenters are prepared to share their new ideas, best practices and innovative thinking with a global audience of thousands. Plus, these sessions are tailored to your specific needs. Sessions have been matched to IABC’s Global Standard and career paths , giving you the opportunity to map your learnin

Fresh thinking: Insights from the IABC World Conference, San Francisco, 2015

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The IABC World Conference is an annual feast for communicators. It offers a mix of exceptional and visionary keynote speakers through to small expert workshops. I was delighted to once again be invited to speak at the world conference, this year in San Francisco. As always it was a fantastic chance to meet with leading communication experts from around the world, to pick up insights, socialize and make new friends. With almost 2000 delegates from all over the world and many exceptional speakers the most difficult challenge was to decide what sessions to go too. Too many sessions, too little time. A good complaint. Firstly we kicked off with Sally Hogshead’s opening session on the science of fascination. Her tests and presentation had everyone buzzing and was a conversation kicker for the welcome reception that evening. Her insights into how to capture people's attention and land that project were inspiring. Storytelling was a recurring theme, and according to Subhamoy Das