Gain the skills to craft, deliver, and pitch the TEDx talk of your life.

Arthur Zards

TED/TEDx speaker & producer with 42+ million client speaker views | Founder Swarm Effect® speaking

Master your future TEDx Talk

Gartner

Olympics

Northwestern

Johnson & Johnson

This course is designed for those eager to transform their existing ideas into powerful, TEDx-worthy presentations. Whether your goal is to create a pitch and land a TEDx talk or to develop a TED-style talk to share your ideas with the world, this course offers a deep dive into finding and performing the talk of your life. This is not a quick hack for getting ideas onto a TEDx stage, but a comprehensive journey to discover, challenge, and share your ideas in the most compelling and impactful way. The techniques and processes used are the same ones employed by your instructor, Arthur Zards, for his past and current speaker coaching clients. Some areas of this course can be challenging, but the goal is to bring your best idea forward in the most impactful way. Don't worry, you won't be alone – we'll tackle it together in a small intimite cohort. Key Highlights: 🧠 Expert Instruction: Your instructor is not a teaching assistant or a previous speaker with a few TEDx talks under their belt. Arthur Zards is a TED/TEDx speaker and producer with 15 years of experience in speaking, producing TEDx events, and coaching hundreds of TED/TEDx speakers who have amassed over 42+ million views. He is dedicated to helping you succeed. 🧠 Rigorous Idea Challenge: Your ideas will be rigorously challenged. We will dig deep to uncover the core truth of your idea, helping you identify what truly matters. This process ensures your message stands out, resonates with your audience, and inspires action. 🧠 The Swarm Effect®: Developed by your instructor, this communication model will not only enhance your TEDx-style talk but also improve your overall presentation skills. Whether it's facilitation, public speaking, or corporate presentations, the Swarm Effect® will empower you to communicate with greater impact.

You'll Leave with a Transformative Idea Ready to Be Unleashed to the TEDx World

Established speakers who want to break into the TEDx world of speaking by pitching and landing a TEDx talk.

Anyone who has an idea that they believe is ready to be shared with the world in order to make an impact. No speaking experience necessary.

Business owners and execs who want to level up their presentation skills to be impactful and memorable through the TED style of speaking.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

A broad understanding of how the TEDx ecosystem works, how it's evolving, and how you can leverage your expertise to land speaking opportunities and to get more involved with the TEDx movement.

How TEDx works

The skills and insider knowledge needed to successfully pitch your idea for speaking opportunities. Your pitch will stand out from the masses.

How to pitch Your idea

An easy-to-understand and usable model for achieving maximum impact with your idea. The model is based on decades of communications experience with 15 years of the best techniques/tricks/hacks used by the most successful TED speakers.

Swarm Effect®  speaking model.
 

You will get your idea to the Deeper Truth. It's what really matters with your idea.This simple tool and process will be profound and you will to able to use it on future ideas and concepts beyond this course.

A powerful process to challenge your idea 

You don't need to be a professional speaker to talk like a TED speaker. You will learn how to embrace who you truly are, and how to translate that into a strength for speaking, even if you are shy, never spoken in public or hate public speaking.

How to embrace your own authenticity

Any self-doubt, thinking like your idea isn't good enough or thoughts of imposter syndrome will be squashed. You'll leave with significant confidence and the tools needed to increase it.

Confidence

You won't ever have to worry about being a professional storyteller. You'll have simple and easy-to-remember tools so you can immediately become a natural storyteller and you won't even know it.

A storytelling mindset

You may think your idea is a jumbled mess, but simple tools and exercises will guide you to find your own powerful narrative arc and structure.for your idea so that it is story-driven and resonates with your audience.

A narrative arc and structure

You'll discover unique and powerful tools outside of the standard slide deck to fully engage with your audience. You'll learn why TED speaker's slide decks don't look like typical slide decks and you'll learn the skils to do the same, without being a graphic artist.

You'll never look at a PowerPoint deck the same way again.
 

Intimate small group sessions (no more than 10 people) with an expert live instructor that allows for immediate feedback and collaboration only seen with expensive one-on-one learning. No teacher assistants or junior instructors.

Expert Co-hort live interactive learning.
 

At the end of the co-hort is a session for office hours. Time for any questions, comments, or live feedback will be available.

Office Hours

Provide a brief description for each module as a way to sell the value of what students will be learning throughout the course.

First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

Founder Macon Raine, Marketing Automation

Human-centered designer, professor at the Segal Design Institute of Northwestern University, founder IDEO Chicago office

Executive communication consultant and coach and president of the National Speakers Association - Illinois

Ph.D, Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Ph.D. Mathematician, Executive management coach

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Meet your instructor

July 15 - Monday

July 16 - Tuesday

July 18 - Thursday

Office Hours and Q/A - 90 minutes+

July 20 - Saturday

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Learn with a cohort of peers

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Office Hours - Q/A

Welcome to the course! Check out the "Getting Started" module to:
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 <li>Set yourself up for a successful course.</li>
 <li>Learn how to leverage Maven's Student Home and dive into the course content.</li>
 <li>Discover 5 simple tips for making the most of this cohort and learning community.</li>
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Welcome to the course! Check out the "Getting Started" module to:

Set yourself up for a successful course.

Learn how to leverage Maven's Student Home and dive into the course content.

Discover 5 simple tips for making the most of this cohort and learning community.
