Signature Program Sessions

Platform 101: What is a Personal Platform

Participants get access to our online session tackling the question: What do you want to be known for? This will form the basis of what we call your Personal Platform. This session will tell you what a personal platform is and give you a guid

Platform 102: Why Bother With a Personal Platform

Online:: Mona Sabet along with HiPower Community Members

In this second online session, we discuss why a platform is important. HiPower founder Mona Sabet, talks about how HiPower began and how a well architected platform reaches beyond your professional and personal life and into your broader community and society. You will hear from others who are part of the HiPower community and find out how their own platform development work evolved and what they have achieved by living their platform.

Platform 103: Developing Your platform

Virtual: Mona Sabet

This is a virtual working session over Zoom. You will meet the other HiPower participants in your Ring and we’ll work together to evolve each of your platform statements. You’ll share where you are and what your challenges are, and receive support and input from your Ring participants as well as HiPower instructors.

If you have already developed your platform, we’ll discuss how to bring your platform to life, either digitally or IRL.

Session Goals: (1) Learn from each other and about each other. Get feedback from people who care. (2) Everyone has made significant progress on a strong Personal Platform statement.

Storytelling 101: Lead through Personal Stories

Virtual: Jessica Shor

People follow people, not strategies. Led by strategic operations executive and HiPower Executive Member Jessica Shor, this session will help you learn to show your vulnerability in a way that inspires respect and builds relationships. By learning how to command leadership through personal storytelling you will inspire others, which increases your influence and visibility.

This is a virtual working session over Zoom.

Check your inhibitions and your skepticism at the door. Come prepared to try new things, to receive value, and to deliver value!

Session Goals: (1) Uncover your personal leadership story. (2) Learn the value of vulnerability.

Communicate with Impact

Virtual: Bob Scirpo

Increasing your visibility requires you to make an impact in your communications. In this virtual session, you’ll meet Bob Scirpo— the Founder of Speaking 2.0. Bob has a unique philosophy about communication that we’ve adopted at HiPower:

There's no such thing as public speaking. There are only conversations: one-to-one and one-to-many. The term 'presentation' is psychologically limiting because people who present, give speeches, or speak publicly tend to accidentally and unconsciously alter their behavior — becoming a fraction of their rich, conversational selves. If you want to excel at a skill, approach speaking the way great athletes and musicians approach their talent: develop a strong awareness of what you're doing when you're terrific and then use that knowledge to build consistency.

Bring your story, your platform, or a description of a topic you want to speak on. You'll get more impact from this session if you have something tangible to work with.

Session Goals: (1) Learn new strategies for communicating with impact. (2) Get a chance to practice these principles on while communicating your unique platform.

You have spent the year thinking about what you want to be known for outside of a job title. You have learned the importance of visibility and using personal stories to be more effective leaders. And you have heard what it takes to communicate for impact, because if you’re going to be visible you need to take the stage and communicate. What we haven’t discussed yet is how to make your platform stand out, be easily understood, and make an impression! In Session 5, you’ll learn how to create a campaign around your platform. HiPower Board Member and strategist extraordinaire Delida Costin will help you apply what expert marketers know to do for their companies to your own platform and visibility.

Session Goal: Define what makes you different from others in the space you are interested in, and how you can use that difference to position yourself for greater visibility.

Platform 201: Developing Your Point of View

Virtual: Delida Costin

HiPower Ignite

separate registration

Each year, HiPower organizes a two-day conference where graduating Signature Program participants and the HiPower Executive Members get to meet and work together to deliver value to one another, share Platforms, and continue to help the entire tribe to achieve their visions. Learn more about the upcoming HiPower Ignite Conference.