On Friday May 15th and Saturday May 16th I enjoyed attending the 2026 Toastmasters District 15 Conference in the Salt Lake City suburb of South Jordan, Utah. The theme was The Power of Our Past - The Promise of Our Future. You can find a pdf file of the agenda.
The district Humorous Speech Contest was on Friday Afternoon and the International Speech Contest was on Saturday Afternoon. Friday evening Ron Chapman conducted a workshop titled The Elephant in the Room: Leading Change. On Saturday morning he gave a keynote speech titled Becoming a Transformational Leader. In the afternoon he led another workshop. There were five other excellent workshops with speakers and titles as follows:
Dana Jones – What Our Past Tried to Teach Us.
Christine Campbell – The Power of P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E.
Ben Hunt – How to Ethically Use Artificial Intelligence in Speechwriting
Bart Merrell – Mining Your Stories
Kelly Kaye Walker – From Awkward to Awesome: Building Club Culture That Members Can’t Wait to Come Back To.
I know how much effort goes into creating a workshop. On May 15, 2024 I had blogged about My workshop presentation at the 2024 District 15 Toastmasters Conference on May 18, 2024 about Creating or Finding Great Table Topics Questions.
This is the last conference for District 15. A reorganization will put us into a new geographically larger District 207 that also includes most of Oregon (except the northeast corner).
My Garmin GPS got me through the Salt Lake City traffic to the motel and meeting. But when I got into the car on Sunday morning that GPS was dead. I had a Utah road atlas with me, so it was easy to get on I-15 and then to I-84 back to Boise. Later I found the GPS still worked, the power adapter for the car was dead, and the internal battery for the GPS also was dead. It was my second Garmin GPS, so I had a spare power adapter.
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