Join us every third Wednesday for the NSA Carolinas Speaker Development Series, designed to help you build a thriving, ethical speaking business.

Speaker Development Series

Most speakers know where they want their business to go, but far fewer have a clear way to tell whether they’re getting there. In this practical one-hour session, you’ll learn to look at your speaking business through a measurement lens: where your time goes, what’s worth tracking, and how to set goals you can actually verify. You’ll learn the difference between KPIs and OKRs, how to spot metrics that look impressive but tell you nothing, and how to write strong objectives with measurable key results. This is a hands-on session, so it’s best to join from a computer so you can participate fully.

You’ll learn how to:

• Define what success looks like for your speaking business by turning broad ambitions into clear, measurable outcomes
• Distinguish between KPIs and OKRs and know when to use each to monitor business performance versus drive growth and change
• Identify meaningful leading and lagging indicators to track progress, adjust early, and translate annual goals into focused 90-day action

Check out our Speaker:

Kim Poremski is the founder of Agile Prowess, where she helps leaders and organizations close the gap between effort and results. One of a select group of Certified Scrum Trainers® worldwide, she brings 30+ years of experience across IT, product management, and organizational change, working with Fortune 500 teams in banking, finance, healthcare, insurance, and retail.

On stage, Kim shares better ways of leading others and ourselves by revealing the patterns that hold people, leaders, and teams back and the practices that move them forward. She has delivered keynotes and workshops at regional and national events, served as emcee for the 2023 Global Scrum Gatherings in Portland and Amsterdam, and delivered the closing keynote at the 2025 Scrum Gathering in Banff, Canada.

Kim is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), NSA Carolinas, Charleston Women in Tech, and Scrum Alliance. She lives in Charleston, SC.