KEYNOTES with Kelly Hoey

Written By Casey and Julie

Julie joins Casey in NYC from San Francisco to talk all things Keynote, panels, and public speaking with the inimitable Kelly Hoey, author of “Build Your Dream Network” and all-around badass.

Follow Kelly on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram and check out her fantastic podcast!

TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

  • Make your talk porous enough to allow for the unexpected

  • Assume a benevolent audience (what’s the harm)

  • Choose your most effective working style

  • Instead of speeding up when time is short, slow down

  • Leave people wanting more

  • Find your foundation

  • Build your speaking career before you need it

  • Think how you can serve your audience instead of your audience serving you

Kelly Hoey is the author of Build Your Dream Network (January 2017 / Tarcher Perigee).

Kelly has been lauded from Forbes (“1 of 5 Women Changing the World of VC/Entrepreneurship”) to Fast Company (“1 of the 25 Smartest Women On Twitter”) to Business Insider (“1 of the 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter”) and Inc. (“1 of the 10 Most Well-Connected People in New York City's Startup Scene”). EBW 2020 included her on their list of the “100 Most Influential Global Leaders Empowering Women Worldwide”.

Kelly’s career story is one of transformation – through networking. Her career started out with a law degree and a job in a big Toronto law firm. She continued along a predictable career path, until a chance opportunity landed in her lap in 2009 and she stopped playing it safe, leaping at the chance to work with a visionary leader of a global business network for women. Co-founding a startup accelerator then an interim CMO role with an emerging tech company are just part of her journey of reinvention as an author, writer, creator and investor. She has appeared on CNBC’s Power Pitch, moderated a speaker series at Apple, and contributed to publications such as The New York Times, Forbes.com, Fast Company, Inc. and more. Today, Kelly continues to spread her networking message as a sought-out speaker, and host of the Build Your Dream Network podcast.

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