Here are just a few of our past clients:

-Grubb & Ellis, New Mexico

-Maestas & Ward, New Mexico

-New Mexico Business Weekly

-CREW New Mexico (Commercial Real Estate Women)

-AWC (Association for Women in Communications)

-NMAMA (New Mexico American Marketing Association)

-United Blood Services

-Synergy Networking

Sol Acting Academy offers corporate seminars and workshops providing instruction in public speaking, communication, team building, and personal development. Contact Laura Mathis at info@solacting.com for more information and pricing. Workshops can be structured and adapted to cater to your company’s specific needs, and we can offer the workshops right in your business location for the convenience of your team, either in one day or spread out over time. Each attendee receives a hard copy of handouts to refer to in the future as a summary of the material covered.

Here are five of our most popular workshops:

1) Powerful Public Speaking (4 Hours)
Be effective, relaxed and command the attention of your audience the next time you speak in public. At this workshop, we will share with you 5 important tips to immediately improve your public speaking. Overcome nervousness, discover your own natural speaking style, and establish an immediate rapport with your audience. Using humor, anecdotes, and proven techniques, this workshop will give you tools you will use for the rest for your life. Learn Powerful Public Speaking techniques used by the most captivating speakers in the world, and then boost your business by practicing your new techniques right away! Great public speaking classes are often hundreds of dollars, even thousands, but this workshop is available at a discount to local businesses. Handouts are given to attendees to refer to in the future and as a summary of the material covered.

2) Your Perfect 30-Second Elevator Speech (2 Hours)
Your Perfect 30-Second Elevator Speech…Crafted, tested and ready to go before the workshop is over! You will have a blast in this workshop as you craft your own Perfect 30-Second Elevator Speech.  The elevator speech is really about describing the essence of what you do in 30 seconds. If you don’t have an amazing, interesting and unique pitch memorized in your head right now, you are literally losing money and customers every time someone says, “So, what do YOU do?” This one-of-a-kind workshop uses passion, humor, creativity and proven methods to shape the perfect 30-Second Elevator Speech that will help you gain new clients and make more money! Everyone leaves with a speech they love after writing, editing, and performing their material for the group. Attendees will also receive a handout for future reference as a summary of the material covered.

3) Turn Small Talk into Big Results (2 hours)
In networking situations, there are many ways to improve your networking power while meeting with potential clients, referrals, or strategic alliances. There IS a more skillful way of dealing with people…and the secret is more effective intercommunication. One of the most challenging but powerful techniques in communication is the use of small talk. There is a way to make small talk both enjoyable for you, but also more productive, by using proven techniques that help the conversation flow and deepen relationships quickly. Answer, “What Do You Do?” in a way that builds trust, and makes you memorable, master the six stages of relationships, avoid the top 20 turn-offs, make the most of events and memberships (Critical for profitability these days!) and more. Learn helpful tips on how to start and sustain meaningful conversations with total strangers, plan your “agenda” for conversations, remember names, have perfect body language, explore ways to work a party like a politician works a room, develop ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive, and important etiquette you rules you have let slip over the years. Handouts are given to attendees to refer to in the future and as a summary of the material covered.

4) How to Not be Boring (1 Hour)
Explore new ways to not be boring in both a business and professional environment. Learn the top secret tips of charismatic and fascinating people that you can apply right away! Topics to be covered include: spontaneity, creating fun and interesting conversations, how to show your silly or personal side to deepen relationships, and facial awareness. This fun and very interactive session will be a blast and incredibly useful for your day-to-day interaction in business. Self assurance can be learned, and we will show you how! In addition to top-secret listening skills, learn techniques that can easily be applied in both business and networking settings. You will go home with a hard copy of the materials covered in this session.

5) Improvisation-Think on your feet! ( 4 hours)
This workshop was created after years of intensive training by Laura Mathis at the famed Second City in Chicago. This improvisation workshop is created with you in mind, to set up programs and curriculum that support your goals and transform your team. First, let us know what your team may have struggled with in the past, or where there is room for improvement. Then, we craft a perfect workshop that caters to your company’s needs. Whether we’re helping your business to become more innovative, increase leadership, help your sales people close more deals, deal with conflict resolution, or handle customer relationships better, Sol Acting Academy will help you build the best team possible. Topics we often explore are teamwork and communication, presentations, negotiations, leadership and the ability to listen in the moment for opportunity or information. This high-energy, interactive workshop is led by top notch improvisation professionals. Most importantly, these hands-on workshops are stimulating, provocative and immediately applicable!  Each attendee will go home with a hard copy of the materials covered to use as a resource in the future.

To find out more about any of these exciting workshops, email info@solacting.com, or call (505) 206-7707 today! Dates fill quickly during the year, please call for information on pricing and date availability.

Endorsements of our Corporate Workshops:

“As the CEO of New Mexico’s largest privately held real estate services company, I am pleased to recommend Laura to any professional organization that seeks to improve the public speaking skills of their employees and sales force.  Laura worked with our team during a series of targeted and specific training sessions that were informative, instructive and entertaining.  We all benefited from Laura’s insights and instruction .If you want to improve your public speaking skills, Laura Mathis is a fantastic resource.  Laura conducted a series of public speaking workshops for our managers, staff and sales team, each tailored to address specific skills.  Our team was engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the trainings.  Not only were they informative and instructive, but they were entertaining as well.  I recommend engaging Laura to work with you or your team if you want to improve your public speaking skills.  We will be working with her again and we are already looking forward to our next workshop.”   ~Will Steadman, CEO at Grubb & Ellis, New Mexico

“The Albuquerque Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications was fortunate enough to have Laura Mathis speak at one of our monthly meetings on the topic of Public Speaking. She packed the house and then proceeded to delight, educate, and inspire our members with tips and techniques to become better public speakers. We can’t wait to have her come back!” ~Lucy Rosen, President, 2010/2011 AWC-Albuquerque Chapter

“As a chef on TV, a commercial real estate advisor and motivational speaker I found my sessions at SolActing Academy highly beneficial. Laura Mathis has exceptional listening and observational skills which are combined with a breadth of acting experience and knowledge. The end result is feedback that helped elevate my performances to new levels. Even my everyday conversations have improved from Laura’s insightful suggestions. Regardless of your ability level or discipline, working with Laura Mathis will greatly improve your confidence and communication – keys to being successful in today’s fast paced environment. I look forward to continuing my education with Laura and welcome the opportunity to further discuss my positive experience with anyone that is considering her services.”  ~Brett Hills, Advisor at Maestes & Ward

“Laura Mathis has been partnering with the New Mexico Business Weekly for the past two years, teaching our business readers public speaking skills, networking skills and how to not be boring! These skills help our readers grow professionally and personally while having fun! The feedback from the attendees is outstanding. When I need a speaker with that can entertain, hold the audience captive and teach real life skills that everyone on staff from the administrative professional, the sales professionals to the C-level executives will implement, Laura is my ‘go-to’ speaker.” ~Jennifer Smith, Circulation Sales & Marketing Director at the New Mexico Business Weekly

“I came to Laura to improve my public speaking skills and found a real coach. What Laura has taught me about public speaking will last me a lifetime, her teaching is invaluable.  Her lessons are well rounded, honest and always valuable.  For anyone involved in public speaking it is time well spent.”  ~Drew Dolan, Director of Development at Titan Development, Managing Director at I- 25 Studios

“The private lessons I took at Sol Acting Academy in public speaking and presentational skills taught me how to present any topic in an interesting and engaging manner.  The lessons I learned helped me overcome the anxiety I used to feel when speaking in front of a group.  Laura’s advice is practical, useful – and most of all – invaluable.”  ~Lisa Millich, Attorney at Hurley Law Firm

“In just one hour, Laura helped our staff create an all important 30-second “elevator speech” tailored to each of our styles. Each of our team members left the room with a personalized message to share with the world about who we are and the importance of what we do…. People are listening and taking action! Thanks, Laura!” ~Charlene Smith, United Blood Services New Mexico