5.0 (5)
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Transform expertise into career-defining presentations that elevate professional standing and drive impactful change. (Includes using AI)
5.0 (5)
3 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Transform expertise into career-defining presentations that elevate professional standing and drive impactful change. (Includes using AI)
A few organizations impacted
Course overview
This course is designed for professionals ready to transform their expertise into powerful, memorable presentations that command attention in the corporate world. Arthur Zards brings his experience from the TED organization and TED talks to teach the same elite communication strategies that succeed on world-class stages - adapted specifically for executive and corporate success. Whether their goal is to land high-profile speaking engagements, distinguish themselves as industry authorities, or develop compelling narratives that move decision-makers to action, this course offers a deep dive into crafting and delivering talks that advance careers. Participants will master the art of presenting ideas in ways that elevate their professional visibility and establish their leadership presence, using proven techniques from the world's most influential speaking platforms.
This is not a quick presentation skills workshop, but a comprehensive program that transforms how leaders communicate their most important ideas. The techniques and frameworks taught are the same ones that have launched global movements and influenced industry leaders, now adapted for corporate impact and professional advancement.
Key Highlights
🧠 World-Class Strategic Communication Training: Your instructor has worked with the TED organization for over 15 years, speaking, producing and coaching in the TED model of communication. Participants learn the same sophisticated communication techniques that succeed on global stages, adapted specifically for executive and business environments.
🧠 Leveraging AI
AI cannot write for you. However the right AI tool will enable you to create more powerful content quicker. Various AI tools will be shared to enable you to find the ones that work best for your writing style and concept development. Your new AI tools will be your new communication muse.
🧠 Storytelling Driven Skills: You will walk away with simple, and easy to use storytelling skills that will make an immediate impact on how you communicate on day one. You will not have to learn complicated story models or journey maps but simple, effective tools designed for the busy executive.
🧠 Proven Idea Development Process: Ideas are rigorously developed using the same storytelling methodology that has helped hundreds of TED/TEDx speakers break through. This process ensures messages not only resonate in boardrooms but create lasting impact across organizations.
🧠 The Swarm Effect®: Participants master this proprietary communication model, developed through years of analyzing the most successful TED talks and corporate presentations. This framework elevates executive presence across all business communications - from keynotes to crucial stakeholder meetings.
🧠 Elite Small-Group Format: Limited to four participants, ensuring the same high-touch coaching approach Arthur uses with TED speakers is applied to advancing each participant's professional goals and leadership presence.
🧠 Executive Coaching Sessions: Two private 30-minute sessions utilize the same coaching techniques employed with global thought leaders, focused specifically on participants' professional development and strategic communication goals.
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Corporate leaders ready to elevate their influence using proven techniques from world-class stages.
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Industry experts looking to position themselves as thought leaders using TED driven storytelling techniques
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Business professionals seeking to transform their expertise into compelling presentations that advance careers.
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Rising executives who want to develop the same commanding presence seen in viral TED talks, adapted for business impact
Swarm Effect® speaking model.
An easy-to-understand and usable model for achieving maximum impact with your idea. The model is based on decades of communications experience with 15 years of the best techniques/tricks/hacks used by the most successful TED speakers.
A powerful process to challenge your idea
You will get your idea to the Deeper Truth. It's what really matters with your idea. This simple tool and process will be profound and you will to able to use it on future ideas and concepts beyond this course.
A storytelling mindset
You won't ever have to worry about being a professional storyteller. You'll have simple and easy-to-remember tools so you can immediately become a natural storyteller and you won't even know it.
Confidence
Any self-doubt, thinking like your idea isn't good enough or thoughts of imposter syndrome will be squashed. You'll leave with significant confidence and the tools needed to increase it.
How to embrace your own authenticity
You don't need to be a professional speaker to talk like a TED speaker. You will learn how to embrace who you truly are, and how to translate that into a strength for speaking, even if you are shy, have never spoken in public or hate public speaking.
A narrative arc and structure
You may think your idea is a jumbled mess, but simple tools and exercises will guide you to find your own powerful narrative arc and structure for your idea so that it is story-driven and resonates with your audience.
Storytelling creation toolbox
Simple and easy to apply tools and techniques so that you can develop a story instantly with almost no knowledge of storytelling.
PowerPoint Alternatives. You'll never look at a PowerPoint deck the same way again.
You'll discover unique and powerful tools outside of the standard slide deck to fully engage with your audience. You'll learn why TED speaker's slide decks don't look like typical slide decks and you'll learn the skills to do the same, without being a graphic artist.
TED/TEDx Opportunity Knowledge
Want to take your idea further? Learn how TED/TEDx style talks differ from corporate presentations and why it matters. A broad understanding of how the TED/TEDx ecosystem works, how it's evolving, and how you can leverage your expertise to land speaking opportunities.
Expert Co-hort live interactive learning.
Intimate small group sessions (no more than 4 people) with Arthur Zards that allows for immediate feedback and collaboration only seen with expensive one-on-one learning. No teacher assistants or junior instructors.
Office Hours
At the end of the co-hort is a session for office hours. Time for any questions, comments, or live feedback will be available.
4 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
22 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
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TED/TEDx speaker & producer with 42+ million client speaker views | Founder Swarm Effect® speaking
Arthur has over 15 years of speaker and content experience working directly with the TED organization and mentoring and producing numerous TEDx organizations and speakers.
He is a self-described TED fanatic and is the founder and executive director of TEDxNaperville, the Midwest’s longest-running TEDx event since 2010. His events have challenged the norms in speaker content , delivery, and the attendee/sponsor experience resulting in leading lectures and workshops for numerous organizations including TED and TED Global on speaker content and creating engaging experiences.
A recent launch is Swarm Effect ™ speaking, a speaker development model that enables anyone without regard to speaking experience to communicate with impact, grab attention, and get swarmed by the audience when finished speaking.
Arthur’s unique approach blends a TED-style of conversational speaking, content curation and experience design to transform speakers’ ideas into massive impact and engagement.
He has worked with a diverse mix of speakers including students, educators, home-makers, organizational leaders, civic leaders, millionaires, billionaires, Olympic athletes, and even a few astronauts.
Speakers working directly with Arthur have over 42 million collective TED/TEDx online views and growing.
Arthur believes everyone has an idea worth sharing and is tired of the current state of corporate communications.
Arthur believes that “Corporate speak” based keynotes, presentations, and sale pitches just have to go.
There is a better way.
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