Never quite had the courage to initiate those deeper conversations with your industry colleagues? Not sure how to start the conversation and get through it with grace? Do you want to create more powerful conversations with vulnerability and courage?
This immersive, interactive virtual workshop with Entertainment Career Coach/Talent Agent Consultant Jim Arnoff will give you the insider’s take on what it takes to start that conversation, maintain the courage throughout and come out with a powerful result. It’s all about confidence, trust, authenticity and knowing that deeper conversations are really about creating a stronger connection. This workshop will give you specific tools to frame the conversation, choose empowering words, listen in a more empathetic way and come away with a deeper respect for each other.
RSVP for free or with a suggested donation. All donations go towards producing future panels and events. After signing up, you’ll receive information on how to access the Zoom session. In order to encourage attendee participation, this session will not be recorded.
Event starts at 10am Pacific Time.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at events@wgfoundation.org.
About the Facilitator
Jim Arnoff is a Certified Career/Business/Life Coach to the entertainment industry, small business owners, veterans in film and television, women in finance and NYU alumni. Jim is certified by the International Coach Federation and founded the Gay Coaches Collective/NYC.
Jim Arnoff also consults as a talent agent having represented television production companies in developing and selling original programming.
As a consultant, he shapes pitches, strengthens sizzle reels and works with producers to launch their own production companies. He practices entertainment law in television, film and digital. Jim worked at the William Morris Agency as both an in-house lawyer and television packaging agent.
Jim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University School of Law and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. He leads workshops for Veterans in Media and Entertainment, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Alliance of Women Directors, U.S. Military Academy, Writers Guild of America/East and West, Writers Guild Foundation/Veterans Writing Project, New York Women in Film & Television, NYU/Wasserman Career Services,, NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Tisch West Alumni, NYU Arts & Entertainment Alumni Network, NYU LGBT Alumni Network, The Actors Fund, Hollywood Radio & Television Society, Women in Film and National Association of Latino Independent Producers. Jim is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts ("Pitching Your Television Series to the Industry Pros") and guest speaks at NYU, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Montclair State University and University of theArts in Philadelphia. He is a member of the New York State, New York City and LGBT Bar Associations.