Your Voice, Our World: Writing for Impact (Members Only)

The more powerful your voice, the greater your potential impact. In this fun, interactive program, we will explore–and test-drive–ways to build support for your ideas at a time when our voices matter as never before. You will learn how to structure your thoughts through the magic of storytelling and six rhetorical strategies that drive thought leadership. Whatever your format–from speeches and presentations to essays and op-eds, to organizational communications and grant proposals–­­­­you will come away better equipped to reach your goals. Please plan to write by hand unless a physical condition prevents you from doing so. Come with a topic you care about and writing materials. 

Space is limited to 15 participants. You will be added to a wait list if the session is full.

About the Presenter

AMY GUTMAN is a writer and communications strategist whose work spans higher education, nonprofits, and the private sector. She is currently Executive Writer for the CEO at Flagship Pioneering, a life-sciences venture creation firm that has launched more than 100 companies including Moderna. Her own work has appeared in many print and online publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Psychology Today, and she is the author of two suspense novels — Equivocal Death, a People Magazine Page Turner of the Week, and The Anniversary, both published by Little, Brown. As a senior facilitator for The OpEd Project, she taught in the U.S. and around the world for institutions that include Harvard University, Columbia University, the Ford Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and many others. She previously served as Senior Communications Advisor at Wellesley College, Senior Communications Advisor to the Dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Special Assistant for Communications to then-Harvard Law School Dean (now U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan.