Jay Speyerer
Jay Speyerer has been a speaker, a writer, and an educator for more than 30 years, successfully working with people in memoir writing, e-mail issues, cross-cultural communication, and presentation skills.
For fact fans, Jay was on the faculty of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, teaching photography, communication, and non-linear scriptwriting, among other subjects. After 25 years, he decided to leave education and run Legacy Road Communications full time. As a speaker and un-trainer, he still gets to stand at the front of the room and tell people what to do. He's just taken his act on the road.
Jay is the un-trainer because he never uses PowerPoint. That's one reason his audiences give him such high ratings. Some of Jay's audiences include Avon, Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Allegheny General Hospital, Ametek, VisitPittsburgh, California University of PA, genealogists and family historians at conventions in Pennsylvania and Utah, and many others.
Recently, Jay has added to his memoir repertoire by becoming partners with a video producer, and offering full memoir productions, both private and corporate. This includes video interviews, still images, and consultations in writing the voice-over narration. Imagine the 1950s show "This Is Your Life" moved to the 21st century.
Jay is also finding himself in demand as a speech doctor, adding humor to presentations in the unique style of the individual presenter. He's accustomed to putting words in people's mouths from years of writing fiction and screenplays, so this skill comes naturally.
Jay is a member of the National Speakers Association (immediate past president of the Pittsburgh chapter), the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. He is the author of three books, Cat Got Your Thumb?, Cat Got Your Treadmill?, and The Stories of Our Days, and he created The Story System: The Guide to the Methodical Memoir.
Jay Speyerer has been a speaker, a writer, and an educator for more than 30 years, successfully working with people in memoir writing, e-mail issues, cross-cultural communication, and presentation skills.
For fact fans, Jay was on the faculty of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, teaching photography, communication, and non-linear scriptwriting, among other subjects. After 25 years, he decided to leave education and run Legacy Road Communications full time. As a speaker and un-trainer, he still gets to stand at the front of the room and tell people what to do. He's just taken his act on the road.
Jay is the un-trainer because he never uses PowerPoint. That's one reason his audiences give him such high ratings. Some of Jay's audiences include Avon, Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, Allegheny General Hospital, Ametek, VisitPittsburgh, California University of PA, genealogists and family historians at conventions in Pennsylvania and Utah, and many others.
Recently, Jay has added to his memoir repertoire by becoming partners with a video producer, and offering full memoir productions, both private and corporate. This includes video interviews, still images, and consultations in writing the voice-over narration. Imagine the 1950s show "This Is Your Life" moved to the 21st century.
Jay is also finding himself in demand as a speech doctor, adding humor to presentations in the unique style of the individual presenter. He's accustomed to putting words in people's mouths from years of writing fiction and screenplays, so this skill comes naturally.
Jay is a member of the National Speakers Association (immediate past president of the Pittsburgh chapter), the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. He is the author of three books, Cat Got Your Thumb?, Cat Got Your Treadmill?, and The Stories of Our Days, and he created The Story System: The Guide to the Methodical Memoir.
