Workshop: Charm City Speakers

Charm City Speakers is a 90-minute experience designed to help participants strengthen confidence and comfort expressing their authentic selves when speaking.

Created with a focus on accessibility, encouragement, and real-time practice, the space welcomes entrepreneurs, creatives, professionals, organizers, and community members at beginner and intermediate experience levels.

Attendees get to practice in front of others in a tender and boundaried space. Unlike traditional speaking workshops focused solely on performance, Charm City Speakers emphasizes confidence-building, nervous system awareness, authenticity, and community connection.

Pop-up summer series dates:

● Wednesday, July 1

● Wednesday, July 15

● Wednesday, July 29

Each session is 90 minutes, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, and is offered at no cost to

Impact Hub’s community - advance registration required.

Participants can expect:

● A welcoming atmosphere for entrepreneurs, creatives, and emerging leaders

● Guided public speaking activities

● Opportunities to practice speaking in a supportive environment

Charm City Speakers is especially valuable for entrepreneurs and small business owners seeking to strengthen pitches, improve networking confidence, clarify their messaging, and deepen audience engagement both online and in-person.

This mini-series is facilitated by Bakari Jones - learn more about Bakari here.(www.BakariJones.com)

Skillshare Overview

This event format showcases how we have something to learn from everyone.

For each session, Baltimore changemakers like you create and lead interactive workshops on different areas of their passion and expertise. Stay afterward to connect with other attendees!

There are three main focus areas for each session on how to build and sustain:

• Leaders - invest in the most important thing - YOURSELF. These sessions focus on topics like wellness, fun, connection, and self-care
• Businesses - your work is fueling change, and our network wants to see you succeed. Tap into these sessions to improve how you run and grow your business
• Communities - we can only solve complex challenges together. This category focuses on how to deepen impact, expand access, and strengthen connections