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Company and I joined. I began to enjoy the this by spreading the value of Toastmasters,

meetings and I alternated attending between working together as a unified team, and giving
ours and another club in Division H, Area 94. our members a high quality service.
I was impressed that these people were doing
this seemingly very difficult thing and yet they What incentives and recognition are you
were laughing and having fun! I was inspired to planning for the year?

learn these new skills from this group of new We are still in the planning stages of building
friends and was also equally impressed by the the incentive program but the main ideas we
evaluations. They shared with me what I did want to focus on are building incentives around

right and ideas for improvement. I figured if club retention and club membership, the Club
they could do this, so could I. In 2001, a change Coach program,new club leads that lead to a
in my job and family’s health caused me to take demo meeting, and the Area Director work.
leave from Toastmasters. I re-joined in 2008.

What has been your greatest Aha! Moment
in your Toastmasters journey so far? Why?
Before I rejoined Toastmasters in 2008, I

had recently started employment at my current Great leaders don’t set
Company. I was on an important project and
I had prepared diligently for a meeting I was
supposed to lead. As soon as the meeting started, out to be leaders . . .

another person ‘stole’ the meeting leader role and
all the preparation I had done was not even used. they set out to make a
My CIO, said I had done a good job at the meeting
but I knew he was just trying to be nice. It was

then I knew that if I had been in Toastmasters, difference. It’s never
this would not have happened. I couldn’t wait to
about the role . . . always
get back and rejoined soon after.

What is your vision for the District as the

Club Growth Director during 2020-2021? about the goal.
The last four months have been equally
challenging for all of us but we share a unique

opportunity inside of this challenge. At the
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end of this coming Toastmaster year, in 2021,
I see us all having stronger clubs and our clubs
will have increased in membership. We can do

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