Paula Rizzo – Speaker
In Person Events
Virtual Events
About Paula Rizzo
Paula Rizzo is an Emmy-award winning television producer, best-selling author, and a media trainer and strategist. A former senior health producer for Fox News Channel for more than a decade, she produced segments with a range of top experts, including JJ Virgin, Jillian Michaels, and Deepak Chopra. A media veteran for nearly 20 years, she also worked in local news in New York City as a producer for WCBS, WPIX, and WLNY. Today, she lends her media insights and technical eye to authors, experts and executives looking to perform better on camera and/or produce their own videos. She’s the host of her own live-stream show Inside Scoop where she interviews experts about productivity, media, video, books and more!
She’s the founder of ListProducer.com and author of two productivity books: Listful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed and Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You. She’s presently at work on a fiction book as well.
A gifted instructor as much as thorough expert, Paula is a LinkedIn Learning instructor and has several courses on productivity, efficiency, boundary setting and media. She’s also poured her analytical and creative understanding of what drives engaging video content into Become A Video Star – a virtual workshop that empowers experts to create their own compelling videos as well as Go Live! Masterclass – a virtual workshop to create your own live-stream show.
Paula has been featured in major media outlets like FoxNews.com, CNBC.com, Forbes and Oprah.com. She’s a contributor to MindBodyGreen.com, Entrepreneur.com and Thrive Global. A veteran speaker who breaks down practical communication to empower people in all facets of life, Paula’s presented at Massachusetts Conference for Women, HOW Design Live, New York Women in Communications, National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) amongst others. Go to PaulaRizzo.com/checklist to download Paula’s list for becoming a go-to media expert.
Speaking Topics
Available as a Keynote, Half-Day Workshop, Virtual Event
Be Productive Anywhere: Tips for Working From Home, Remotely or Hybrid
During this session you’ll learn:
- How to tap into your own productivity style to get more done at home, in the office or anywhere
- How to work effectively when hotelling or hot desking to make sure deadlines are met
- Ways to get your ideas across succinctly and powerfully during video meetings
- How to look better on camera
- Best tools and technology to amplify your message during video meetings
Listful Living: Battle Burnout And Stress With Intentional List Making
During this session you’ll learn how to:
- De-stress and rebalance through intentional list making and journaling
- Prioritize what’s truly important
- Design your life for joy and happiness
- Mindfully manage your finite energy
Produce Like A Pro: How To Produce Compelling Videos And Handle Any On Camera Interview
During this session you’ll learn:
- Ways to get your ideas across succinctly and powerfully
- How to look better on camera
- How to keep people’s attention
- Best tools and lighting to amplify your message
How to Get and Keep Media Attention
During this session you’ll learn:
- Why the media is hungry for more great experts like you
- How to get the media to take you seriously
- How to pitch ideas that stick (and why you aren’t hearing back as much as you want)
- The things even pros get wrong about pitching the media
Testimonials
Paula led a Productivity workshop for our team members at Toyota and it was our most attended event. We couldn’t be happier with the results. The content was curated for our team members and gave practical steps for how you can be more productive working from home. Even though we were all virtual it was still an interactive workshop. It was such a joy working with Paula and her team!
Angela Harris
Vendor Management, Toyota
Paula reached out to me a few months ago to discuss opportunities for leveraging her unique skills and talents to work with my pool of virtual instructors who teach at K-12 schools country-wide. The team and I couldn’t have been happier with the results. Paula’s training will allow us to better prepare our instructors for their classes and students and ensure a great customer experience all around through preparing them to be more confident on camera and giving them tips and tricks to be their best selves when presenting. I would highly recommend Paula to teams looking to up their game in this new remote environment!
Kim Kross
Chief Operating Officer – Elevate K-12
I brought Paula to give a couple workshops on media training to C-level and VP members at Chief and she is always such a joy to work with! She brings such professionalism, warmth, and great advice for a diverse group of people / learners. She certainly knows how to make a virtual workshop feel super dynamic!
Katrina Conanan-Riel
Senior Program Manager at Chief