Communicating Your Value in a Way that Works

This session is being offered in partnership with Graduate Pathways to Success and the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers.

This will be an interactive working session in which participants will be encouraged to have their cameras and microphones on and available. Participants will participate in small breakout groups and may also deliver a brief pitch to the larger group. By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Communicate their value in a way that will create curiosity
• Create impactful personal value statements
• Deliver an elevator pitch that speaks to their ‘why’

FACILITATOR

Ivan Wanis Ruiz

“I want to make you Batman! There is no one right way to speak, but there are tools that you can apply depending on the situation."

Ivan is a communications expert and a guest instructor at several top universities across Canada from, UBC in the west to UofT and Bishops in the east. Ivan also works with several Fortune 500 companies across North America in industries ranging from Financial Services to Oil and Gas to Industrial Design.

When he is not teaching how to speak, he is doing it as the official spokesperson for both the PanAm Games in 2015 and The Invictus Games 2017.  He is also regularly hosting and emcee'ing large events across Canada to audience from 3 to 30000.  He is a top rated instructor on Coursera and Udemy virtual training platforms with over 150,000 students worldwide.  

When he's not speaking or teaching you can find him on the dance floor as a professional salsa dancer and instructor.

Here are some fun facts about Ivan:

• He is a Distinguished Toastmaster (highest level of TM)
• He is a top rated instructor on Coursera
• He has driven across Canada as the official host for the Invictus Games in 2017
• Ivan is the author of "The Don't Have to be Naked: A new approach to public speaking" 
• He has spoken across the world speaking at several top universities and fortune 500 companies from India to Argentina
• He can teach you how to salsa dance!

Check out his trailer for more:  https://youtu.be/MeqKbFnXQT4

REGISTRATION

Registration in this session is required, and is now open. There are limited seats available in this session, and those successfully registered will receive an email within one week of the session date.

Graduate students, please register through Graduate Pathways to Success.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• In online sessions, when possible and if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

DELIVERY FORMAT

Due to the ongoing situation surrounding COVID-19, this session will be delivered online via Zoom. The following suggestions may help to improve the online experience:

• Use headphones to reduce noise and avoid feedback between your mic and speaker.
• Ensure that you are in a quiet location so that the audio does not get polluted with unwanted noise.
• Keep your microphone on mute unless you are speaking during the session.
• In case of technical problems, time for plugin downloads, etc., please attempt to log into the Zoom meeting 10-15 minutes before the start. You will be placed in the waiting room until the official start time.