MASTERING SOFT SKILLS:
CONFIDENCE + CONNECTION + COMMUNICATION
Martha Weeks
Date: January 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Event Description:
Elevate your leadership and communication skills
Join us for the first Make. Learn. Grow. session of 2025! Martha Weeks will teach us the art of mastering soft skills to grow your confidence, improve your communication, and build stronger connections.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn:
How to develop presence through body language, decisive speech, and confidence-boosting techniques.
Ways to reframe networking as an opportunity to create authentic, lasting relationships.
Strategies for telling your story with credibility and connecting meaningfully with others.
This session offers valuable insights you can apply immediately to your maker business.
Enjoy lunch while learning practical tools to thrive in any environment. Space is limited—register today to secure your spot!
ABOUT MARTHA:
Since 1993, Martha Weeks has provided leadership communications coaching to organizations including Google, Juilliard, Microsoft, Volkswagen America, Uber, and Zynga, as well as numerous medical centers and start-up companies.
Through her tailored and dynamic workshops, Martha gives executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and engineers the tools and confidence to create and deliver persuasive presentations for conferences, investors, and internal meetings. She has coached TEDx talks and served as a speechwriter and coach for hundreds of business and technical presentations.
Martha Weeks is a coach and lecturer at the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT) in the Graduate Executive Education group and the Professional MBA program. For more than a decade, she has worked as a coach and guest lecturer at Stanford Business School.
Martha started her career at Hewlett-Packard. She worked as a sales development engineer, channel manager, and product manager at HP offices in California, Germany, and France. After leaving HP, she sold network management software and consulted for technology companies including Oracle, Intuit, and Symantec.
Martha earned an MBA from the University of California-Berkeley and a BA in mathematics with a concentration in computer science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She serves on the advisory board of UT’s College of Nursing.