Events

Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He teaches Effective Virtual Communication and Essentials of Strategic Communication at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.  

Matt is also Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills.

Matt published the third edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who wish to present in a more confident and compelling way. He also hosts the GSB podcast called Think Fast Talk Smart.  And, he curates the NoFreakingSpeaking.com website.

Palo Alto City Council Candidates

Greg Giusiana, District Governor 5170 & Tim Watson, Chair, World Community Service  

Club Board meeting. Contact President Ben Threlkeld to confirm

Zoom Happy Hour 2nd Wednesday of the month. Join us!

Palo Alto League of Women Voters representative

Ron Davis, former EPA Police Chief, Executive Director, President Obama's Task Force on 21st century policing

TGIF - 

Joseph Desimone, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Carbon, speaking on Novel ways of 3-D Printing

Club Board meeting. Contact President Ben Threlkeld to confirm

Raj Mathai, News Anchor, NBC Bay AreaTen-time Emmy award winner Raj Mathai is the weeknight news anchor for NBC Bay Area. Raj anchors the nightly 5 pm, 6 pm and 11 pm News and is among the Bay Area's most well-known journalists. He joined KNTV in 1998 as Sports Director and transitioned to primary news anchor in 2011.Raj grew up on the Peninsula and graduated from Los Altos High School. He went on to graduate from San Diego State University with a degree in journalism and political science. Before arriving at NBC Bay Area, he worked for NBC stations in Fresno, San Diego, and Arizona. In 1995, Raj became the country's first Indian sportscaster. Prior to his career in television, Raj served as a public relations assistant for the San Diego Chargers for five seasons. He was part of the Giants broadcast team (2008-2012) with Jon Miller and Mike Krukow during NBC Bay Area telecasts of the Giants. He is a regular guest instructor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Raj was born in Trivandrum, India.

He has reported on-location from the Olympics in London, Vancouver, Turin, Athens and Salt Lake City. Raj is among the handful of people in the world to have run the Olympic Torch three times (1996, 2002 and 2008). 

Catherine Martineau, Executive Director of Canopy

Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, appointed by President Obama, McFaul is currently a Professor of political science at Stanford University, Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ambassador McFaul will be speaking about a new book he is writing on the topic of Great Power Competition.

Join us on Zoom for a social connection - 2nd Wednesday

Holiday - No club meeting 

No club meeting - Holidays

No club meeting - President's Day