“Your presentation was polished, professional and inspirational!”

- Kathleen Ennis, Western Canada Lottery Corporation

“Talented speaker.”

- Jeff Towers, Nortel

We regularly provide speeches, courses and other public events that inspire: you can choose to register from our public schedule, or we’ll help you host a professional development or fundraising event tailored for your organization: if you wish to invite others to attend, we can help publicize it. David Berman personally and expertly presents each public keynote speech and course.

“Creative… encouraging exchanges. David is a great speaker, making concepts more comprehensible.

- Beatrice Pollard, Forum of Federations, Ottawa

To register for a course hosted by David Berman Communications, register online or call (613) 728-6777.

Strategy | Design | Web | Accessible Communications:

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Sites (keynote lecture)
Learn the seven pivotal ideas that will help you get the outcomes you deserve from your Web presence.

Successful Management of Web Site Projects (one or two-day course #2)
Learn “The System” for bringing in Web projects on time, on budget, and on target.

Perfecting Your Web (& Print) Strategy (one- or two-day course #3)
One or two-day course on how to apply a proven step-by-step strategic process to get remarkable business results from any Web or print project.

Developing Your Sustainable Project Strategy: Quadruple-Bottom-Line Design Thinking (one-day course #3B)
David demystifies the complete design-thinking path to developing a plan to save money, lower stress, save time, while yielding lasting outcomes for profits, people, planet, … and culture!

Designing With a Purpose: The Role of Strategy in The Creative Process (keynote)
David will show you his 10-step process to include strategy in every process, helping you get better outcomes for you and your client every time, through strategic design.

Creating Sites That Matter: Effective Web Information Design (one-day course #4)
David shows you how to make your content meaningful to your audience, sharing his success as a senior design consultant to some of Canada’s largest sites.

Principles of Graphic Design and Typography (one-day course #6) Course on how to influence your audiences on all channels, using excellent graphic design and the latest technologies.

The New Standard On Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 / Web Accessibility Matters (course #8)
Learn how accessibility will broaden your audience, make you site more useful for everyone, while complying with W3C WCAG 2.0, the new Standard On Web Accessibility, AODA, and Section 508.

Accessible PDF: Leaving No Content Behind (course #9)
Learn why and how to make PDF accessibility, in order to broaden your audience, make you content more useful for everyone, while more easily complying with W3C WCAG 2.0, the new Standard On Web Accessibility, AODA, and Section 508.

Getting it Right the First Time: Proofreading and Content Quality Control (one-day course #7)
Gain a strong fundamental understanding of the value, principles and techniques of creating and maintaining accurate and consistent content quality control for Internet and print publishing.

Ethics | Social Responsibility | Professionalism:

Making The Planet Your Client: Designing Sustainability (keynote lecture)
David’s most famous presentation: visual communicators have way more power than they think: to do damage or to help repair the World. Which will you choose?

Real-Time Ethics: Prospering through Principles (workshop)
Workshop on how to solve everyday ethical dillemas in professional life by remaining in alignment with yourself, and focussed on your values.

Certification (Accreditation) And Professional Codes of Conduct for Designers (keynote lecture)
Lecture describing the benefits and challenges of government certification for graphic designers.

Greener Meetings: Professional Climate Change (keynote lecture)
Learn how and why to start designing greener events: it will save money, help heal the planet, and it’s easier than you think.

Organization | Personal Management:

Successful Management of Creative Professionals (course #5)
A toolbox of effective personnel management practices and procedures to help creative organizations build and retain loyal, energized, interdependent teams.

Seven Habits of Highly Profitable Design Firms (keynote lecture or course)
Learn how to implement the seven powerful techniques that distinguish the agencies that run profitable, smoothly, and energetically year-over-year.

Plan or Be Planned: “Not Another Time Management Seminar!” (keynote/mini-course)
Time management is just one part of a larger issue: priority and choice management. First we have to make sure we’re heading in the right direction, and establish who’s in control… only then can we focus on how to do those things most efficiently and precisely, and thus leave the most powerful legacy we can.

Starting Now: Advanced Priority Management for Creative Professionals (full day course #1)
Apply David’s results-oriented project strategy to your own life: give us a day and we’ll show you step-by-step methods to turn your intentions into action, including learning when saying No is really just saying Yes to something greater.

Information for our out-of-town guests to Ottawa:

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Ottawa weather link, to help you pack appropriately:
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Online Courses

In addition to the above in-person courses, you can also access online e-learning courses on related topics (from Vubiz) in both English and French.

English online courses

French online courses

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According to an industry survey of conference attendees conducted in 2005, regarding session formats, people prefer educational courses over all other kinds of content presentation, with almost 85% of respondents rating them as “very or somewhat important” (in comparison to only 50% for motivational speakers and 43% for celebrity speakers). Attendees want to acquire better skills, participate in structured training, and enjoy the sharing of ideas.

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Reviewed December 13, 2011