At the conference you'll have many opportunities to share ideas and explain your LCA and sustainability work during hallway conversations, poster sessions, lightening talks, or formal presentations. What's the best way to make your point? How can you be succinct and informative?
Through a combination of lecture and practice, this workshop will help you become a more effective and strategic communicator. Workshop participants will learn and apply techniques for being clear, compelling, and better understood. You will be introduced to several concepts and practice applying them to topics of your choice. You will work solo and have the opportunity to volunteer or partner to test out new language.
Join your colleagues to learn communication approaches that will help you make the most of the 2025 conference and build your reputation in your field of specialty.
You'll learn how to:
Extract the essence of your ideas and findings
Craft a main takeaway message and support points
Structure content with appropriate detail and technical depth
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for students and anyone who wants to upskill their ability to communicate with clarity and impact.
Duration 90 minutes
Instructor
Amy Aines
Educator, Author, Keynote Speaker, Communication Coach
CEO Damianakes Communications
Author Championing Science – Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers University of California Press
Amy Aines builds STEM career success skills. She is a communication strategist on a mission to help scientists speak and listen so they can make a bigger impact. Co-author of the ‘how to’ book: Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers, Amy honed her expertise directing corporate, media, and public policy communications for a $10B telecommunications company and consulting to more than 50 companies from start-ups to global giants in technology, healthcare, and biotech. Amy provides insights into effective communication through customized skill building experiences for graduate students, early career professionals, researchers, and faculty for universities, research development centers. Since 2019 she has delivered workshops for cohorts at the CanCO2Re Inititiative, DOE RECS program, JPL, Stanford, Princeton, Center for BioEnergy Innovation, Florida International University, Northeastern Network Science Institute, UCLA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Amy gives of her time as an advisor to the SAi Collective, Quest Science Center, and Beyond the PhD.
