International Women’s Day Speaker
An International Women’s Day Speaker Like No Other – Bianca Miller-Cole
Are you searching for a powerful, engaging speaker for your International Women’s Day conference? One with a compelling story of her own and the ability to relay her experiences and insights in a clear and riveting way? Bianca Miller-Cole is just such a speaker.
Bianca is the award-winning founder of “The Be Group”, a personal branding business created to enable members of the contemporary workforce to unleash their true potential. The Be Group boasts an impressive array of corporate clients eager to benefit from Bianca’s tips, techniques and experience. Those clients include Microsoft, KPMG, Facebook, Google, Tesco, Accenture and many more titans of business.
Bianca is a self-made woman who speaks eloquently on the topics of female empowerment, overcoming economic, cultural and political obstacles, gender equality and other topics relevant to the continuing struggle for equal rights. From the moment she burst onto the scene on the BBC show “The Apprentice” in 2014 she has been inspiring women and others to shatter glass ceilings and transcend social, economic and cultural restrictions. You will not find a more inspiring speaker for your event than Bianca Miller-Cole.
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The Origins of International Women’s Day
In our time International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world every March 8th. But it was not always so. The seeds of what would become International Women’s Day were planted in 1908 in New York City. On that occasion, some 15,000 women marched through the centre of New York demanding better pay, more humane working conditions and the right to vote.
The group organised a similar demonstration the following year only this time they declared it the first National Women’s Day. Word of these demonstrations crossed the Atlantic and inspired women in Europe to hold the first official IWD gathering in 1911, though not on March 8th. In fact, there is some debate over the origins of the March 8th date for IWD.
The general consensus is that the date was chosen to commemorate the first day of a strike held in Russia in 1917 during which women demanded everything from better food to the right to vote. Although others believe March 8th was chosen because in 1980 then US President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the week beginning March 8th to be Women’s History Week in America. In 1987 that morphed into Women’s History Month.
But regardless of the precise mechanism that led to March 8th becoming International Women’s Day, it has become a focal point for activism, and a day women across the globe gather to hear keynote speakers extoll the many cultural, economic and political achievements of women.
Did You Know There are Official Colours for International Women’s Day?
Well there are, and they are purple, green and white. These colours were chosen for their historic association with the Women’s Social and Political Union of the United Kingdom. To the members of the Union – which was founded in 1908 – purple signified dignity and justice, green signified hope and white was the universal colour of purity, which spoke to their motives.
So from now on when you see banners, signage, clothes, websites and other IWD associated materials utilising the purple, green and white colour scheme you will know why.
The Global Impact of International Women’s Day
March 8th is more than a day for motivational speakers to pick up a few quid. It represents an annual rallying cry for women the world over to rise up and demand equality, justice and dignity and to share their experiences and hope with each other. It is a tangible manifestation of the spirit of those pioneering women of 100 years ago who understood the central role women played (and continue to play) in the cultural and economic life of human civilisation and their quest to have those contributions recognised.
The Importance of Finding the Right IWD Speaker
Finding a speaker who exemplifies that indomitable spirit and who can inspire the next generation of women to ever greater heights is vital if your IWD celebration is to produce optimal impact. That is where Bianca Miller-Cole comes in. Bianca is the very embodiment of the strong, independent, accomplished woman. She is a speaker of extraordinary power and passion and 2016 received the Power Profile award for being a singular force within LinkedIn’s 20 million UK members.
Bianca is also a successful author having written a guide to start-up success that was an Amazon best-seller. Her most recent literary outing, “The Business Survival Kit” is published by Penguin Random House and hit bookstores last September to much fanfare.
If you are planning an IWD event this year make sure the speaker you choose epitomises the spirit of the day and has the credentials, drive, personality and charisma to send your audience home inspired. Get in touch with Bianca Miller-Cole today and ensure yours is an IWD celebration to remember for all the right reasons.
The Characteristics of the Best International Women’s Day Speakers
Powerful International Women’s Day speakers like Bianca Miller possess certain qualities that separate them from average speakers of both sexes. It’s a collection of characteristics that can sometimes be difficult to quantify but are nonetheless perceptible by the audience at an instinctive level the minute they start speaking. Here are some of those characteristics:
It’s all well and good to stand before a group of women and tell them they have it in them to be successful entrepreneurs. It’s another thing entirely to provide them with some information they can actually use to deal with the pitfalls and challenges that await them. Great International Women’s Day speakers do not engage in empty exhortations. They give you real-world examples of how to get things done.
What separates the great IWD speakers from the average ones is the teleprompter. If you’ve ever watched a politician give a speech you’ll notice their eyes making subtle side-to-side movements as they read the lines of text in front of them. While you can impart a lot of information that way the presentation on the whole feels pretty cold and impersonal. The best International Women’s Day speakers have a solid understanding of the points they want to cover and then are able to speak in a relaxed and spontaneous manner that is more effective in building a rapport with the audience.
Some speakers use elaborate visual aids as a kind of crutch to support what is otherwise a lacklustre presentation. While this may produce a few “wows” at first the audience will eventually catch on and tune out. The best International Women’s Day speakers use visuals solely to add context or to provide necessary information that is best presented by way of a graph or picture. For these speakers, visual aids are only employed to add value to their talk. Not to overwhelm it.
If you’ve ever sat through a drone-like, hour-long presentation you know how soul-crushing they can be. It doesn’t matter if the speaker has discovered a way to solve global warming overnight, if they present their idea in a dry, humourless, monotone fashion no one is going to listen. The best IWD speakers understand how to punctuate their talk with humour in order to relieve tension and provide a change of pace.
Perhaps the only thing worse than a dry, humourless presentation is one where the speaker rambles on aimlessly. Even if they have something of value to say if they are incapable of saying it in a clear, concise manner then no one is going to be paying attention when they finally make their point. As Einstein once said “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it”. The best International Women’s Day speakers are able to get their points across in a simple, easy-to-understand manner.
