November 16th 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. KEY
November 17th 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. CEO
November 18th 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. CEO
Michael Allosso compares the preparation, performance, and role of an actor with that of the corporate executive. Reach a more vital and dynamic awareness of the excellence needed not only for presentations, but also in the communications in every moment of every day. Concrete suggestions and exercises designed to modify behavior.
- Appropriateness and method for demonstrating passion and energy
- Generating enthusiasm, clarity, and persuasiveness while Staying true to self
- Charisma – can it be learned?
- Team-leading and building
- The power of the spoken word and when not to speak
About Michael Allosso
MICHAEL ALLOSSO is a master communications expert who coaches CEOs and other high level executives both in dynamic presentations as well as effective day to day leadership. He has led award winning workshops for leaders and sales teams all over the world and is a much sought after personal coach. His client base ranges from insurance producers to construction managers, doctors to bankers, actors to politicians. His experience as a professional theater and film director enables him to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses. He gives his clients practical tools to fortify their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses.
Since he started in 2004, Michael has been a top rated speaker for Vistage International. During that time he won the Lifetime Achievement Award, an unprecedented four “Speaker of the Year” Awards, two “Members’ Choice” Awards, the “Above and Beyond” Award, “Speaker of the Year” Award for TEC Canada, and the Millennium Award. Michael has traveled the world bringing his “You On Your Best Day” program to a wide variety of organizations and businesses.
Michael has been the Artistic Director and Manager of numerous theaters in the Boston area and has created and managed his own improvisational comedy troupe. He has been a faculty member at five colleges, taught in many other colleges and schools and has been chief administrator of the Boston University Theatre Institute and National Dance Institute/N.E. under Jacques D’Amboise.
Sample work includes a training video shot in Seattle helping Costco demonstrators heighten their presentation performance, “You Be the Judge” a short feature being used in the Boston school system to provoke teenage social responsibility and “Diversity Live” a corporate film used to instruct businesses on all levels of diversity sensitivity. Feature films include “The Strangler’s Wife” (produced by Roger Corman) and “Bluff” (starring Lenny Clarke). As a theatrical director, he has had numerous successes including the coveted Eliot Norton Award, Boston’s version of the Tony for his production of “Dealer’s Choice”. His range of directing credits stretches from opera companies to pop videos to living history to three Hasty Pudding shows at Harvard University to a musical at Lincoln Center.
As an actor, Allosso has appeared in many commercials and corporate films as well as the feature film “Pink Panther Two” with Steve Martin and on stage in “Marty” with John C. Reilly at the Huntington Theatre and as Felix in “The Odd Couple” opposite Sherman Hemsley of TV’s “The Jeffersons”. In the corporate world, Mr. Allosso writes and performs shows for special events. He earned his M.F.A. in Directing from Boston University and a B.A. in Theater Arts from Brandeis University.