{"id":5367,"date":"2016-09-13T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:40:26","slug":"elevator-pitch-session-2-rises-to-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/2016\/09\/13\/elevator-pitch-session-2-rises-to-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellows Take Elevator Pitches to New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 31st and September\u00a09th, the Fellows enjoyed a two-part workshop on Presenting Your Professional Self: The Art of the Elevator Pitch. In the first session, Bank of America Senior Vice President and BU alumnus Al Petras introduced the topic and gave the Fellows pointers based on his own experience\u2014and then the Fellows practiced:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160831_145528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160831_145528-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20160831_145528\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160831_145528-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160831_145528-636x358.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160909_143439-e1473791583152-544x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20160909_143439\" width=\"250\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our second session, the Fellows\u00a0practiced again and gave feedback to one another in an exercise modeled on &#8220;speed dating.&#8221; We\u00a0then regrouped for debriefing and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The Fellows will have many opportunities to use their refined elevator pitches throughout the year\u2014their first of which will take place on Wednesday, September 21st, at the Dean&#8217;s Welcome Reception\u00a0hosted by\u00a0the Questrom School of Business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/hhh\/files\/2016\/09\/20160909_143439.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 31st and September\u00a09th, the Fellows enjoyed a two-part workshop on Presenting Your Professional Self: The Art of the Elevator Pitch. In the first session, Bank of America Senior Vice President and BU alumnus Al Petras introduced the topic and gave the Fellows pointers based on his own experience\u2014and then the Fellows practiced: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}