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The keynote speaker at the 75th Annual Lake Guntersville Chamber of Commerce Banquet will be Bill Graham.
The Banquet will be held in the Guntersville Town Hall on Friday, February 24. The Social Hour will be from 6pm-7pm and the dinner/program will start at 7pm.
Tickets are available at $50.00 each. For more information, call the Chamber at 256-582-3612.
According to the Chamber, Graham will speak on the topic of “The Power of Likable Leadership.” If you are a leader, you sell ideas. If you are an entrepreneur or salesperson, you sell products. Whatever you do, if customers and staff don't like you, they won't buy what you are selling. Communication expert Bill Graham will share his tools to help you be more likable, make emotional connections, and achieve your goals. His ideas will help you improve your relationships and communicate with impact.
At the age of 24, Graham took over the management of Olney Theatre, an historic professional theatre in Olney MD. There, he produced and directed over 100 plays and musicals.
He left the theatre for TV where Bill trained writers for the Procter & Gamble soap operas, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Another World. For over a decade, he trained writers, analyzed audiences, and delivered story notes for 7000 hours of network television. Writers that he discovered and developed won Best Writing Emmy’s 5 of the last 7 years he was at P&G.
At the same time, he was teaching actors at Stella Adler Conservatory the art of being more charismatic in front of an audience.
In 2002, Bill was asked to help a speaker for the anniversary of 9/11 at The Pentagon. That work led to work preparing a government oral presentation for the speaker’s architectural management firm. Soon, he left the soap operas to form Graham Corporate Communications.
Today, he delivers keynotes and seminars in Leadership Communications, Likeability, and Storytelling for a broad range of clients. Bill’s audiences regularly include entrepreneurs, CEOs, legislators, mayors, association leaders, union leaders, teachers, social workers, pharmacists, scientists, dentists, physicists, chamber executives, and sales teams.
Bill is on the faculty of Seton Hall University’s Communications Department and George Mason’s Sports Management department. He is a guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins’ Technical Management department, and he is a faculty member of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organizational Management.
