Invent is a coworking space in downtown Bellingham that is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurial energy and professional community building within Whatcom County. Our members have the resources and opportunity to transform ideas into functioning operations and grow their business through collaboration, partnership, and expanding their business network. We help create relationships between professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, mentors, and investors for the purpose of evolving and expanding innovative business growth strategies.

In our space, we offer every modern convenience you’d want or need in an office, sans cubicles, hovering managers, punch clocks and anything else that one might consider the bane of their business day. Finally, on top of it all, we organize a variety of seminars and tech/startup events open to the entrepreneurial community and regular members-only activities that provide the foundation for our community.

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Welcome to Toastmasters International

Looking to improve your speaking and leadership skills? Ignite your career? Win that job interview?

You’ve come to the right place. Since 1924, more than 4 million people around the world have become more confident speakers and leaders because of their participation in Toastmasters.

Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Today, our membership is 260,000 strong. These members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 12,500-plus clubs that make up our global network of meeting locations.

Membership in Toastmasters is one of the greatest investments you can make in yourself. At $27 every six months, it is also one of the most cost-effective skill-building tools available anywhere.

How Does Toastmasters Work?

A Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a friendly atmosphere. A typical group has 20 to 40 members who meet weekly, biweekly or monthly. A typical meeting lasts 60 – 90 minutes. There is no instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead, members evaluate one another’s presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program’s success. Meeting participants also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings and develop skills related to timekeeping, grammar and parliamentary procedure.

Members learn communication skills by working in the Competent Communication manual, a series of 10 self-paced speaking assignments designed to instill a basic foundation in public speaking.

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Ferndale Chamber of Commerce
Phone: (360) 384-3042
Email: info@ferndale-chamber.com