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Shari Graydon is a dynamic and entertaining speaker, skilled trainer and diplomatic facilitator. She designs every presentation she delivers to meet the specific needs and interests of the audience involved.
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TESTIMONIALS:

All of the evaluations on her keynote presentation were glowing with superlatives – excellent, wonderful, eye-opening, enlightening, insightful, entertaining, fantastic!
-Carol Ohlin, Quebec Federation of Home and School Assoc.

Enlightening discussion of controversial material presented in an engaging and humourous way – one of our best attended events.
-Vinetta Peek, American Marketing Association (BC)

The clarity, empathy and humour with which Shari communicates have had a transformative effect on members who have experienced her as a keynote speaker and workshop leader.
-Carol Zavitz, Elementary Teachers Association of Ontario

This presentation helps younger students to identify and think critically about all forms of media persuasion – from TV commercials and celebrity endorsements to brand names and insecurity appeals. Along the way, it equips them with tools to unpack the subtleties of ambiguous language and sophisticated imagery.

Body Image Un-Reality
(grades 8 - 12)

From movies and magazines to music videos and reality-based TV, media messages about beauty ideals abound -- for girls and guys alike. This presentation gives teenagers social, historical and cross cultural context to help them make sense of our make-over culture’s unattainable appearance standards and punishing stereotypes.

Media Violence: Truth or Consequences
(grades 7-10)

On TV, at the movies, in video games and music lyrics, violence is glamourized as entertaining and inevitable, integral to sport and only resolved through more violence. This workshop explores these issues in the context of 50
years of research and kids' own real life experiences of bullying and aggression.

Fees

…range from $300 (school book reading and informal talk) to $5,000 (large conference keynote) and are negotiable, depending on the resources of the organization involved.

Recent Audiences

…include teacher and librarian conferences, elementary and high schools, parent councils, service clubs, non-profit organizations, public libraries, universities, youth groups, women’s conferences, marketing associations, eating disorders and other health conferences