Stephy is 2 parts designer, 2 parts developer, 3 parts perfectionist, and 1 part impatient mother. She’s a founding board member of the Presentation Guild board of directors, is a design engineer by day, runs her own business by night, barely plays guitar, and loves glitter. Once, she drove through a tire fire on a golf cart at work when she was a chemist. Now she enjoys making typically mundane experiences a lot more fun–like sitting through an 80-slide benefits presentation, dealing with that really crappy website, or reading this bio.

Stephy Hogan is an accessible design expert who has been working in the design field for more than 20 years. She is an accessible design advocate at IBM, has created the Accessible Design Lab channel on YouTube, and is a frequent podcast guest and keynote speaker – including at the Creative Pro Network and Presentation Summit.

As an ADHDer herself, her experience as a neurodiverse designer has driven her passion and purpose to get more people interested and involved in accessible design initiatives.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

😍 Accessible digital design tips for neurodivergent

🔤 The importance of captions/transcripts

🛎️ Must-haves for virtual presentation

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Producing over 400 virtual meetings, summits, and conferences per year, John designs, produces, speaks, and MC engaging virtual meetings all around the world. Author of Amazon #1 Hot New Release, Engaging Virtual Meetings by John Wiley & Sons. Producing with over 16 screens.

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John Chen is a guest on Talk Virtual. He also offers us the secrets to how to host the most engaging virtual meetings & how to beat Zoom Fatigue!

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Adam has been a professional DJ for more than 20 years. Since 2014, he has grown his technical skillsets and worked as a freelancer in all aspects of running Audio, Wireless and Video elements at events. From auctions to Ted Talks, corporate retreats to trade shows with general sessions and break outs, Adam and his team of freelancers and partners have done it all. Adam also loves creating voice overs, producing and remixing music, editing videos and audio mastering, in the studio!

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🧔 Adam’s career journey
🎧🎶 Unexpected stories on his work as a DJ
⚙️ Gears setup and tech tips

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Bill Stainton, CSP, CPAE is a 29-time Emmy Award winner and a Hall of Fame keynote speaker. As the producer of the longest-running, highest-rated, and most award-winning comedy TV show in the United States, he led his innovative team to over 100 Emmy Awards of their own, and ten straight years of #1 ratings. Along the way, he worked with—and learned from—people like Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Bill is passionate about innovation and creative thinking. He has helped thousands of people in hundreds of organizations—like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, and Nike—generate breakthrough ideas by tapping into their own natural creativity and innovation.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🎨 Top strategy around creativity and innovation
💯 Most engaging virtual experience in the last three years
💭 Thoughts on virtual events in the next decade

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For more than a decade, Jen Santos has led event technology at some of the world’s largest companies.

She brings the technology and team building best practices from over 20+ years of IT consulting and coaching experience to event delivery teams so they can deliver exceptional events. She is now teaching others to do the same in the Smart Event Academy.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

💡 Her #1 engagement technique
🫶 Jen’s favorite openers
😔 Avoid these hybrid and virtual event mistakes

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Sybil “Sage” Stewart is CEO of conVerge wellness solutions, LLC. She is an author, speaker and personal brand coach and consultant. She is on a mission to redefine professional one powerful brand story at a time. After spending over a decade supporting, building and protecting national and global brands she now supports women executives and entrepreneurs with a story to tell. Let’s connect!

In this episode, we discuss the following:

👌🏿 Celebrating Black History Month
🖼️ Interior zoom design plan tips
🤔 Philosophy around brand and virtual presence

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Rob is an authority on executive presence and transformative learning experiences. He is a lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, an MIT Leadership Center Master Executive Coach, and the author of – Leading from Your Best Self: Develop Your Executive Poise, Presence and Influence to Maximize Your Potential (McGraw-Hill).

What is unique about Rob is that for the first half of his career he was a performing artist where he traveled the globe delivering his unique, one-person variety show. He is an accomplished tap dancer, rope and wire walker and storyteller. He now takes his finely honed stage and audience connection skills to business leaders to help them enhance their presence, connect authentically with others, and create momentum behind their ideas by becoming great storytellers.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🏗️ Tech setup tips to better audience connection
👍 What tech or non-tech should you use for your virtual presentation
😉 One way to improve your virtual meeting with no tech

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