llan’s 20+ years speaking experience includes...
* Corporate training
* After-dinner speaking
* Conference and association speaking
* Briefings to private industry, government agencies, congressional staffs and the public
* Performance coaching to relieve public speaking fear and anxiety and to hone presentation skills.
Bolstered by years of experience in speaking, training, supervision, information systems planning and training administration, audiences relish his abundant use of humor and engaging interaction, which make his unique programs absorbing, entertaining and highly rated.
Allan is a member of the adjunct faculty at Howard Community College, where he teaches presentation skills. He’s also an accomplished corporate speaker and trainer.
He has a remarkable ability to make learning fun. As one newspaper wrote about him...
"This [telling a funny joke] is how Allan Misch grabs an audience, and how he tells other people how to do it."
Allan and Allan :
He is the CEO of Allan and Allan, Inc., a communications consulting company that works with organizations to improve executive, management, marketing and sales communications, and with business professionals to rapidly eliminate public speaking fear and performance blocks.
The company provides executive speech coaching and consulting services, seminars, workshops, and speaking programs on rapidly eliminating public speaking fear and other performance blocks, enhancing presentation skills, and building rapport and influence skills.
Versatile TV Personality, Writer and Speaking Competitor
He’s a co-host of Speakeasy, a show about communications, on Maryland’s Comcast Cable Television.
He’s written several published articles about communications, and he’s been written about in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC newspapers.
Allan’s won two dozen speaking competitions and has competed at the highest levels in International speech competition.
Professional Memberships :
* National Speakers Association (NSA) and NSA-DC Chapter
* American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
* Toastmasters International (TI).
He’s earned TI’s most prestigious achievement—Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM). Since the founding of Toastmasters International in 1924, only 1/10 percent of all speakers worldwide have earned the DTM award.
Variety of Audiences :
He’s spoken to varied and numerous audiences such as…
* Dakota Imaging, Inc.
* Social Security Administration
* Health Care Financing Administration
* Association of Wedding Professionals
* Maryland Department of Human Resources
* National Association of Catering Executives
* Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
* And others.
Leadership, Education and Family :
Allan’s held several leadership positions in Toastmasters International and the DC Chapter of the National Speakers Association.
He’s served on the board of directors of his community association and as president of the Howard County Chapter of the Stepfamily Association of America.
A native New Yorker until 1980, Allan has a B.B.A. Degree from Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York.
He resides in Columbia, Maryland with his wife, Sandy, and daughter, Melissa.
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