Lunch & Learn: Communicating Across Borders
VIEW EVENT DETAILSBeing heard and understood is one of the greatest challenges we face when communicating in today’s global and diverse environment. Technology has helped us connect people all over the world. We all speak and we all listen. The question is, “Do we communicate?”
Understanding who we are in today’s world and how to engage with people across borders of all kinds requires thought, discussion, strategy and practice. Join us as Mariam Haddad, CEO & Founder of Performance English, guides us in our quest to expand the experience of human interaction as we understand what it takes to communicate across borders.
Schedule
Registration: 11:30 am
Box Lunch & Program: 12:00 pm
About the Speaker
Mariam was raised in a tight-knit Middle Eastern community in the U.S. surrounded by the Mexican culture. She has enjoyed performing leading roles in operas as well as in solo and chamber music recitals as both pianist and singer, nationally and internationally, on stage, television and radio. Her extensive training, coaching and performance background gave her the tools through which she found her inner voice and understood that we are each an instrument of communication playing a global symphony.
Eight years ago, Mariam founded Performance English LLC, a training and development company committed to working with high-performance employees in multi-cultural and global environments to take their verbal communications to new heights of effectiveness. Firmly rooted in science and the performing arts, our proprietary processes encompass the full cycle of the communication experience — hearing, listening, processing, formulating, speaking — enabling the learner to overcome barriers, create more meaningful interactions while establishing behavioral change. She has developed a teaching staff comprised of proven experts in strategic communications and relationship management. The Performance English team of certified instructors have sharpened their skills through decades of real-world experience in business and in the arts. Since 2006, we have helped hundreds of executives, team leaders and technical experts to create connection and synergy beyond cultural, language and organizational barriers. Performance English delights in helping the brightest minds find their voices, creating confident communicators who make a difference – for themselves, the companies they are affiliated with and the communities they live in.
Mariam is passionate about assisting the people around her to be their most vibrant selves, to create the greatest resonance possible in all of their interactions and to resonate as a part of the larger harmonic structure that emerges when humanity can connect beyond cultural identity, varied perspectives, gender, age and race. She specializes in creating interdisciplinary programs that enrich learning experiences, create behavioral change and establish greater results at the performance level. Fluent in English and Spanish, Mariam also sings in 9 different languages.
She has been a featured speaker at: TEDx Houston, The Business Maker’s Show, University of Houston Bauer School of Business, Boeing, NASA, The Diversity Summit, The OCA Leadership Forum, Shell, BP, Chevron and other Fortune 500 Companies.
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil are presenting sponsors of Business & Policy programs, with lead support from BP America, East West Bank, and United Airlines. Generous funding also provided by the Friends of Business & Policy at Asia Society Texas Center, a premier group of individuals and organizations committed to bringing the best in public programming.
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