Carrie Perrien Smith
Carrie Perrien Smith is a training, communication, and publishing industry veteran. Her corporate career spanned 15 years, split between Texas Instruments and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She founded her Rogers, Arkansas-based company, Soar with Eagles, in 2003 and books professional speakers, trainers, and consultants for company meetings and conferences.
Also a speaker, Carrie is the author of Currency: Striking Networking Gold in a Relationship Economy. She helps companies build lifelong business relationships so they get more clients, bigger paydays, and sweeter success. For more information on Soar with Eagles, visit www.soarhigher.com or learn more about Currency at www.networkingcurrency.com.
Besides serving as the 2007 and 2008 chapter president Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, she is currently the Toastmasters District 43 Public Relations Officer. She is a member of the Advisory Board for Bryan College and works with The Joseph Project, an initiative for the unemployed in Northwest Arkansas. However, her most important volunteer role and calling is as a networking kingpin who connects people.
Carrie holds an MBA from John Brown University and lives in Rogers with her husband, Tom. They survived their daughter Darcie’s teenage years and now share her home with their fur children, Snappy, Speckles, Jazmin, and Midget.
Speech Title: Conversations: Getting What You Want, Need, and Deserve Through the Power of the Spoken Word
The most common reason people avoid networking is the discomfort of approaching people they don’t know and making conversation. Conversations are the basis for creating a strong network. The ability to communicate is one of the most important leadership skills but more importantly, it is one of the keys to a life well-lived — productive, successful, and satisfied.
This session will teach you to:
- Create meaningful conversation with people you just met
- Lead a conversation with people you already know that deepens the relationship
- Create a plan for what to say in a job interview
- Design a strategy for expanding your network
- Create positive self-talk that will help you put your best foot forward.