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ONE
MILLION ATTENDEES
As
a guest speaker and award-winning lecturer for national organizations,
associations, and academic institutions, Clay Stafford’s critically-acclaimed
seminars on creativity, achievement, business, communication, literature, and
film—as well as his presentations as keynote speaker and master of
ceremony—have been delivered live onstage to a total of more than one million
people.
US
GOVERNMENT TO CHINESE ACROBATS
Clay
Stafford’s speaking clients have
included such diverse media and non-media groups as the U.S. Department of
Defense, the Miami-International Press Club, the Financial Executives Institute,
the Atlanta Workshop Players, and the Chongqing Acrobatic Troupe of China.
WRITER’S
DIGEST TO ROMANCE WRITERS
Workshops
for which Clay Stafford has
spoken have been sponsored by organizations such as Barnes & Noble, Writer’s
Digest Books, Associated Writing Programs, and Romance Writers of America, to
name a few.
UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR AND
UNIVERSITY CONSULTANT
Clay
Stafford has a B.A. and M.F.A. and has been a professor, guest lecturer, or
consultant to several universities including the University of Miami and the
University of Tennessee. During one
of his engagements as an academic consultant, he co-designed Florida’s
official two-year university film program at Miami-Dade, which is currently
being used to train technical and creative personnel for Florida’s independent
production companies and major film studios.
ENTERTAINMENT
COACH
Individual
entertainment clients have used Clay
Stafford’s consulting
advice to secure opportunities on the New York stage, in print and commercials,
and in film. His students have made appearances or worked crew on
numerous
commercials, industrials, music videos, the TV soaps As the World Turns and
Days of Our Lives; the primetime series Coach, Ellen, Home
Improvement, JAG, Law & Order, Mad About You, Murder She Wrote, Silk
Stalkings, Sliders, and Wings; the television movies Confessions
of a Sorority Girl and A Family Divided; the feature films Jerry
Maguire, Something Wild, Joy Ride, American Perfekt, Gods
and Monsters, Major League 3, Chill Factor, Perfect Game,
See Jane Run, and Mighty Joe Young.
RESPECTED
MEDIA AUTHOR
Clay
Stafford’s books and tapes on the
entertainment business have been offered at notable media bookstores including
Samuel French, Larry Edmunds, Oxfords, and Borders, and have been used as
teaching tools at several major universities.
ACTIVE
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Even
with the most academic of subjects, Clay Stafford believes that the best way to
learn is by doing and he gets participants involved at the very start of his
presentations either through innovative exercises or group participation.
And by consistently making each presentation personal, he keeps them involved
throughout the entire program.
ORIGINAL
PRESENTATIONS
Clay
Stafford does not prepare the same speech or workshop for every group, but
caters directly to the attendee’s specific objectives. Because he knows
his subjects so well, he can elastically highlight issues specific to his
listener’s needs making each presentation as diverse and individual as the
audience he is addressing.
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