About Our Speakers:

Kendra Rand.   Kendra has been an instructor at the University of Maine since 2015, teaching public speaking and interpersonal communication. She also teaches for the College of the Atlantic, consults for Maine state and federal agencies, and is a regular partner presenter for the Maine Association of Nonprofits. 

Linda Varrell.  Broadreach Public Relations.  Linda Varrell has more than 25 years of experience in communications, public relations, crisis handling, and project and sales management. As a former vice president and company spokesperson for a publicly traded financial institution, she created and executed external and internal communications campaigns supporting expansive growth, product introductions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, financial disclosures, high-visibility construction and technology projects as well as numerous crises. 

Rick Pollak. Rick Pollak is the founder of Presentation Medic, a company that specializes in curing boring technical presentations. Before starting his consulting business, he spent 35 years at Motorola, explaining complex wireless communications networks to non-technical audiences.  Rick has been a featured speaker at technology conferences in the U.S. and Canada. He’s coached speakers for TEDx events and been a guest lecturer at Boston-area universities. Rick is an accomplished jazz musician (keyboard and guitar) who believes that structure and story are the keys to helping people remember songs and speeches.

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