Speakers Bureau

In partnership with PeterboroughToastmasters, the Speakers Bureau trains NCC clients in public speaking and presentation skills to allow them to share their personal experiences and insights. Speakers Bureau members help NCC by responding to community requests for speakers on issues such as multiculturalism, immigration and diversity. These speaking engagements also provide newcomers with a platform to share their successes and concerns, gain confidence in their abilities, and connect with different members of the community. Highlights of Speakers Bureau presentations include:

• Diversity Training for Peterborough Lakefield Community Police
• Foreign-trained teacher spoke at KPR Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario retreat
• Clients shared their immigration stories to hundreds of students at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Lindsay, Holy Cross Secondary School, St. Peter’s Secondary School, Armour Heights
• Refugees shared stories of Where I Came From commemorating World Refugee Day
• Fleming College Panel on the immigration process
• Client spoke at Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources’ Diversity Day
• Translation of water safety message for Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service

If you would like to book a speaker, or if you have any questions about the Speakers Bureau, please contact the Project and Implementation Specialist.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.
Melody Beattie

As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you, you will enter into the exciting process of becoming, as you should be, the author of your own life, the creator of your own possibilities.
Mandy Aftel

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
Fred Allen

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J.M. Barrie