Strategically Speaking: Building Fluency and Cultural Intelligence for Confident Communication

This 2-hour intensive workshop is designed to attain real results in order to help you build your fluency in speech and confidence when presenting and discussing your research. You will gain knowledge, strategies, and skills in this fully interactive workshop that will allow you to better articulate and represent your individual work, your lab/department, and your institution. Included in this workshop will be skill-based practice addressing the linguistic and cultural demands that non-native speakers of English regularly experience in the scientific and academic setting such as:

• Examining your Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
• Exploring the role of CQ in Academia and Industry
• Telling Your Science Story- Framing the Message for diverse audiences
• The Elevator Pitch- marketing your science
• Presenting Your Science: Describing Data (vocabulary and number pronunciation)

Workshop Outcomes: 

By the end of this workshop, you will ...
...analyze your CQ through a provided inventory and assess how it impacts your daily work and career path
...gain skills and strategies for working in a multi-cultural setting
...frame your science/research story through a provided framework in order to better organize your message and make it applicable to diverse audiences
...turn your message into an elevator pitch for networking purposes
...gain skills and strategies to accurately pronounce and discuss key vocabulary and data (numbers, percentages, etc).
...describe trends in data and tell a story with the data

Instructor Profile:

Mallory Fix Lopez, Applied Linguist, Owner, language connectED

Mallory is an Applied Linguist and Educator focusing her teaching on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Mallory has been coaching international scholars, fellows, and postdocs since 2013 at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), The Perelman School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), the Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs at UPenn, Temple University, Nihon Kohden Corporation (Japan), and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Okinawa, Japan. She is a faculty member at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Mallory has also facilitated program development and management for the Free Library of Philadelphia and Garces Foundation (Philadelphia). Mallory’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, and Reuters, among others. She previously lived and taught in Guadalajara, Mexico. Mallory holds a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and a Bachelor of Science in Education, both from Temple University.