Engaging Virtual Meetings Podcast with John Chen

Jan Keck is a community addict. He is the creator of ASK DEEP QUESTIONS, which started out as a deck of cards to help his friends connect on a camping trip and is now being used to facilitate meaningful conversations through sharing personal and vulnerable stories on every continent around the globe.

Jan’s mission is to help people feel less alone. So, by creating experiences, workshops, and programs, he is fueling the movement for deeper human connection. His work has been featured on TEDx, CBC News, Breakfast TV, Cityline, and HuffPost and he is currently building a community of facilitators that design the MAGICAL HUMAN MOMENTS online.

In this episode, we discuss:

🖌️ Designing a virtual experience

👑 Connection is king, not content

👨‍💻 How Jan handles common tech issues

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Tyler Parris is a Hudson-certified executive and career coach, former corporate chief of staff, and author of Chief of Staff: The Strategic Partner Who Will Revolutionize Your Organization.

His career has spanned operations management at Intellectual Ventures, program management at Advaiya, Inc., technical editing at Microsoft, and computer networking in the United States Marine Corps.

His current focus is creating coaching interactions with people in chief of staff roles that create capacity, raise awareness, and change behaviors.

In this episode, we discuss:

💻 How to engage in virtual meetings

🤯 The mindset in designing a meeting

⏰ How to maximize your time in a presentation

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Lindly Lee, from Taiwan, is a Women's Footwear Tech Development Director at Nike and is attending 100s of virtual meetings annually.

She believes a better future is equable and wants to use her curiosity and optimism to better the world and empower herself to empower others.

In this episode, we discuss:

💁‍♀️  How Lindy creates psychological safety in her meetings

🦠  Digital transformation of Nike through COVID-19

🔗  Building connections in a virtual meeting

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Paul D. Kreiter, M.Ed. is a presentation coach and creative director from the Chicagoland area.

Traditionally trained in the performing arts and education, he has spent the last decade working with the greatest speakers in the world, from Hollywood actors, iconic athletes, to innovative business executives, helping them understand how to communicate best with their audiences.

Today, Paul has expanded his work to include company leaders and their teams, consulting them on how to create powerful, story-based presentations that fully engage virtual and in-person audiences.

In this episode, we discuss:

🎤 Tips for virtual speakers

🤹 How to create an illusion

📌 Challenges of working with virtual speakers

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Jason Chan is the founder at TV2 Consulting and is going to share his secrets for remote work.  

In this episode, we discuss:

  Establishing your presence in a virtual environment

👨‍💻  How to onboard someone new into a remote company

❌  Disadvantages of remote work

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Samantha Evans, CAE, MBA from Atlanta, GA is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP), a division of G3ict.

Sam works with accessibility subject matter experts and professionals around the world to maintain, build, and deliver accessibility certification programs.

In this episode, we discuss:

📝 Tips to make your presentation more inclusive

👨‍💻 Advice to make your virtual event more accessible

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Lori Pugh Marcum has 17 years of experience in the meetings and events industry on both the planner and supplier sides of the business.

As Events Content Director for Path to Purchase Institute and Retail Leader, she creates and executes content strategies for all events, awards, and webinar programs.

She also participates as an expert host and facilitator, creatively testing and refining content delivery ideas to delight attendees.

In this episode, we discuss:

💥 Why meetings are so powerful

💁‍♀️ How Lori makes her career decisions

🔧  Advice for people in the meeting event industry

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James Spellos is the President of Meeting U., whose mission is to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology.  His other true mission is helping others to optimize their health through the understanding of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle.

In 2022, Meeting Professionals International included Jim on their most influential list in the hospitality industry in honor of their 50th-anniversary celebration. In 2021, Glisser named Jim one of the most influential people in virtual events.

In this episode, we discuss:

👨‍💻How to go virtual

🚀The future of virtual expos 

📱Digital tools and apps you can use for your virtual meetings

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After years in radio broadcasting with over thirteen radio stations, two television stations, and an award-winning morning show, Dee successfully launched six podcasts that catered to small businesses and nonprofits - providing a mobile podcast studio she built herself.

She's also been a top-notch fundraiser for Children's Miracle Network - where she led a seven-year campaign to raise over a million dollars for Children's National in D.C.

In this episode, we discuss:

🎙️ The value of being live

📺 How to prepare for a show

☺️Advice for new emcees

If you want to learn more about preparing for a live show, take a listen to this episode. If you enjoy it, please subscribe and share it with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on your favorite podcast platform, I’d really appreciate it.

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JKLMprov performs a series of unscripted scenes based on interviews with authors, writers, and artists. The theme of interviews in January are authors. Every show features a new interview and a completely set of improv.

🗣️ In this episode, JKLMpov interviews John Chen and performs fun impromptu scenes based on his life story. 

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