What if you’d rather jump into a cage of hungry lions wearing a meat suit than wade into a room full of strangers?
We’re taught networking is important, but few of us are taught to do it well. For many people, networking causes real social anxiety, discomfort, and even distress.
In Lunching with Lions, Katherine shares the strategies she used to go from being terrified of networking to founding one of Denver’s leading women’s networking groups and becoming an influencer in the women’s entrepreneurship community.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use the trifecta of awareness, purpose, and intent to build a successful networking practice.
- Identify the right groups and connections.
- Leverage your investments of time and money to get the best results.
Best of all, you’ll get strategies and tools to build your networking muscle and help you overcome your fears.
You don’t have to be in every group, attend every meeting, shake every hand, or collect every card. KP shows you how to choose the right groups and connections to help reach your personal and professional goals in a way that feels good and gets the results you want.
Here’s what some recent audience members have said about “Lunching with Lions: How to Survive and Thrive at Networking”:
*** “just wanted to let you know I have been thinking about your presentation all day and told so many people about it! The cool kids part stuck with me and has made me really think about what I’m doing.”
Kendall Prine
*** Thank You for an excellent presentation at Polka Dot last night. I loved your energy and your information – very valuable. I can’t believe I’d never thought of some of your finer points about networking and about the cost of networking! You are the type of woman I want in my tribe! Thank you!”
Tonya Mecum
*** You were AMAZING Katherine McGraw Patterson! That is actually the first thing I did this morning was really evaluate my networking and the impact I want to make. You’re amazing sister!”
Stephanie Schoolmeester
*** A timely message at today’s meeting helped me to organize my time and energy at this expo. Thank you, Katherine McGraw Patterson, for your reminder to identify and focus on the people and situations which are most likely to be potential clients or otherwise build my business. 🌟
I stopped at tables which appeared to match and had lively, interesting conversations without rushing. I made lots of great connections! ”
Anne Moriarty
This presentation is based on Katherine’s recently-published book, “Lunching with Lions: Strategies for the Networking-Averse” which was endorsed by Ivan Misener, founder of BNI (the world’s largest professional networking organization) and New York Times best-selling author, who said “Lunching with Lions will help you overcome networking fears with insight and awareness. Katherine shares her own journey of overcoming her aversion to networking to subsequently leading one of Denver’s fastest-growing professional networks for women business owners. She encourages business owners to approach networking like everything else in their organization – by setting concrete goals, creating actionable strategies, and tracking their results. People will be using this book as a tool to expand their networks for a long time. “