{"id":26608,"date":"2025-03-14T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26608"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:59:48","slug":"leadership-development-program-inspires-action-with-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26608","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Development Program Inspires Action with Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26609\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26609\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26609\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/March-12-2025-LD-Workshop-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Top): PACD Leadership Development Manager Matt Miller, Piper Strategies Founder &amp; CEO Stacey Piper, and Piper Strategies Trainer Cindi Johnson. (Bottom) Cindi Johnson addresses attendees.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On March 12, 2025, twenty-eight conservation district staff gathered in State College, PA, for the &#8220;Inspiring Action with Public Speaking\u201d workshop. Participants learned the essential principles and techniques for planning and delivering confident and compelling speeches, presentations, and pitches. The exercises used examples from situations the conservation districts face, including speaking in front of commissions, legislators, and local news.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 12, 2025, twenty-eight conservation district staff gathered in State College, PA, for the &#8220;Inspiring Action with Public Speaking\u201d workshop. Participants learned the essential principles and techniques for planning and delivering confident and compelling speeches, presentations, and pitches. The exercises used examples from situations the conservation districts face, including speaking in front of commissions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}