Module 2: Your Elevator Pitch
Your elevator pitch must be good enough to get the recipient to ask any sort of question that allows the dialog to continue. This session breaks down an effective elevator pitch into its most crucial elements and gives you tools to help construct your own. Elevator pitch should be 2-3 sentences.
Instructor: Carina Boston Pinales
Carina Boston Pinales brings over eight years of experience in social impact, and change management with a focus on addressing community needs through technology, collaboration, and work-space solutions.
She has built a reputation by collaborating with some of the leading progressive minds in social innovation and business, including Fortune 100 Companies, The Main Street Program, The Rocky Mountain Institute, and various public institutions.
Carina drives the strategies that help facilitate solutions with business sustainability and growth focusing on opportunities to achieve the required outcomes and beyond. Carina holds a background in Psychology and Design as well as a certification in Life Coaching from the American Union of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This has equipped her to be a visionary and manage teams by optimizing process, tools, and techniques to navigate the people side of change to achieve efficient results. Trained in ethics, multicultural and diversity issues, she is routinely sourced to help facilitate and manage personal transitions resulting in the adoption of strategic practices. She is a recognized Unsung Hero by Ecosystem Builder Hub community, a Shining Star under 40, and the Distinguished Alumni in Business Development and Innovation award by the National Hispanic Institute.
She founded the first-ever award-winning coworking space in what is now being called “The Innovation Corridor”, Splash Coworking (Splash). Splash offers a diverse, inclusive entrepreneurial environment which provides access to tools and opportunity for underrepresented founders and start-ups. Locally driven and globally connected, Splash has developed an innovative ecosystem in the heart of Texas including funding, mentoring, and educational resources.