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Christopher Hill, Ph.D.

President/Co-founder, Hillside Communications

Chris Hill is president and co-founder at Hillside Communications, based in Durango, Colorado. For over twenty years, Chris and his team have supported over thirty thousand of the most accomplished scientific experts in the US and worldwide to deliver outstanding presentations.

With over seventeen years of science-teaching experience in the UK, Bermuda, and the US and a doctorate in educational psychology, Chris is well-qualified to recognize influential speakers and educators and share their best practices.

Current position (1)

President/Co-founder

Hillside Communications, Inc.

Degrees (3)

Ph.D. | Educational Psychology

University of Northern Colorado

2011 to 2024

M.A. | Educational Psychology

University of Colorado at Boulder

1993 to 2011

B.A. | Education

Open University, Milton Keynes, England

1985 to 1993

Presentations

Presentations (1)

Expert to Educator - Speak So They Listen and Learn

Whether you are an experienced speaker or a nervous beginner, this forty-five-minute interactive presentation will benefit you immediately. Master the basics and acquire advanced skills that have been road-tested by preeminent scientific and medical educators worldwide.

Workshops (9)

Speak Louder Than Words

4 hours

Speakers learn the physical skills that convey confidence and credibility. Through interactive coaching and video recording, participants see immediate progress.

Expert to Educator

2 hours

This workshop guides participants through the critical four stages of our proprietary ACE™ planning and preparation process. Participants learn how to transform a static slide deck into an engaging educational experience tailored specifically for custom communication training for medical professionals.

Making Slides Matter

2 hours

In this workshop, presenters learn how to keep an audience’s attention and interest as they present scientific visuals. Practicing with approved decks, the presenters learn how to guide an audience through the most complex data slides.

Confident Q&A

2 hours

Working anticipated FAQs, participants learn to anticipate questions and project confidence by managing challenging questions and discriminating audience members.

Didactic to Dialog

2 hours

This workshop teaches participants how to turn a didactic scientific or medical presentation into an engaging and interactive learning experience.

Problem-based Learning

4 hours

PBL is a proven teaching methodology to stimulate deep learning via small group discussions. Particpants learn how to guide a group of learners towards a program’s learning objectives as they discover and test its central points.

Focused Facilitation

2 hours

This workshop teaches the skills to develop maximum audience interaction, engagement, and learning in a case-based or roundtable discussion.

Expert to Expert

2 hours

Participants learn how to turn a one-to-one professional encounter into an educational experience.

Virtually Speaking

2 hours

This workshop teaches participants how to engage an online audience while projecting confidence and credibility.