The Sounds of Persuasion: How to optimize your VOICE to win your next pitch

The EmpowerHER Series is a monthly gathering for women(and allies!!) in business, focused on personal and professional growth. Each session features a speaker offering actionable insights, ensuring you leave with steps to implement and a supportive community to grow with. Inspired by the need for a consistent network for women and underrepresented founders, this series was created to foster connection, share knowledge, and build together.

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Part of being a great entrepreneur is being a great communicator. At Peacock Voices, we love helping female entrepreneurs master the art of communication so their businesses can flourish and grow.

You've got the right words for your pitch, but how are you delivering those words? Are you emphasizing and inflecting the right way? Most importantly, are you leveraging the actual *sound* of your speaking voice to maximize your results?

Voice Analysis can predict – with 70-80% accuracy (!!!) – whether or not a startup will be funded and how much funding they’ll receive. As women, we know it is extra challenging to have our voices heard when pitching, so understanding and commanding the full power of your voice is crucial to getting that funding you deserve.

During this interactive workshop, we'll explore:

1. The Facts: Learn how your voice affects investors' decisions and how to use that to your advantage
2. The Exercises: Specific techniques to give you complete control over your voice
3. The Results: How to flip your pitch delivery from flat and uninspiring to authentic, charismatic, and powerful

You'll learn what vocal qualities will give you a leg up in your pitch game, and walk away with vocal exercises and specific techniques!

This workshop WILL be interactive! We recommend wearing clothing you can move in, and if tuning in virtually, being in a space where you can be free to be a little silly and noisy.

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More about Peacock Voices

Margaret Izard Oskoui is an expert in vocal sound-making who discovered her passion for helping people learn their voices over a decade ago. Margaret realized that facilitating people’s vocal journeys to find their voices and learn how to communicate was her true calling. Her dream is to create equity through the human voice.

After realizing this, Margaret decided to create Peacock Voices as a place for people to explore their ability to align their voices with the message they are trying to convey to allow for more effective communication by empowering people to take ownership of their voices.

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The event is on the 10th floor of TeamWorking by TechNexus. Once inside the building, find the elevators to your left. Take the elevators to the 10th floor and go through the glass doors. You'll see a kitchen ahead to your left. Walk past the kitchen, turn right at the end of the hallway, and you'll find us at the end of that hallway, in the back left corner of the office. The food will be in the smaller kitchen, and the programming will be in the adjacent conference room.

Schedule

• 8:30-9 am CST: Guest Arrival/Networking
• 9-10:30 am CST: Programming
• 10:30- 11:00 am CST Guest Departure/Networking

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In the spirit of unity, we welcome all women in business and individuals of all genders who value diversity and inclusivity. Be part of this thriving community where we shape the future of business, build lifelong partnerships, and provide a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs, VCs, and ecosystem partners to learn from each other.

Feel free to share & invite interested people in your network.

Mark your calendar to join us for this recurring occasion on the 3rd Thursday of the month.

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TeamWorking by TechNexus is located at 20 N Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago IL 60606

TeamWorking is a scalable space built by investors for Chicago’s tech community. We provide a smarter, dynamic workspace for scaling teams with dedicated offices, flexible memberships, and executive meeting rooms, all designed to facilitate collaboration. We also provide event space for gatherings of up to 150 people and regularly bring together the founders, investors, and forward-thinking corporations that fuel our innovation ecosystem. Whether it is the growing technology startups that want to be near their investors, or enterprise executives that need to be in the center of things downtown, many of Chicago's brightest call TeamWorking home.

TeamWorking is located in the historic Civic Opera Building. Located on Wacker Drive between Madison and Washington Street, please enter through the mid-block turnstiles. During business hours (8a-5p), guests can bypass security and head straight to the coworking space, our reception desk is right off the elevator banks.

Parking The Civic Opera Building does not have a parking garage. Limited meter parking is available throughout the loop (restricted parking begins at 4 pm, during rush hour). For discounted rates, we recommend using SpotHero or iParkit. The nearest garage is located in the CME building at 10 S. Wacker Drive.

Click here for more information.

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