Feeling like your writing career is in everyone else's hands? Unsure how to be the master of your own career? Eager to have the courage to make key decisions in your writing career and need support to make that happen?
Join Entertainment Career Coach/Talent Agent Consultant/WGA-WGF Workshop Facilitator Jim Arnoff in an immersive, interactive workshop where you will learn the skills to envision your ideal writing career with precision, brainstorm ways to make key decisions fearlessly, produce compelling sizzle reel and create powerful collaborations. You will hear the ways to build that courage to take control, diminish the fears that have been holding you back and create your own momentum to accelerate the writing career you deserve.
All proceeds benefit the Writers Guild Foundation’s future panels and events, community programs, and Library & Archive. After signing up, you’ll receive information on how to access the Zoom session. In order to encourage attendee participation, this session will not be recorded.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at events@wgfoundation.org.
About the Facilitator
Jim Arnoff is a Certified Career/Business/Life Coach to the entertainment industry, small business owners, veterans in film and television, women in finance and NYU alumni. Jim is certified by the International Coach Federation and founded the Gay Coaches Collective/NYC.
Jim Arnoff also consults as a talent agent having represented television production companies in developing and selling original programming .
As a consultant, he shapes pitches, strengthens sizzle reels and works with producers to launch their own production companies. He practices entertainment law in television, film and digital. Jim worked at the William Morris Agency as both an in-house lawyer and television packaging agent.
Jim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University School of Law and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. He leads workshops for Veterans in Media and Entertainment, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Alliance of Women Directors, U.S. Military Academy, Writers Guild of America/East and West, Writers Guild Foundation/Veterans Writing Project, New York Women in Film & Television, NYU/Wasserman Career Services,, NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Tisch West Alumni, NYU Arts & Entertainment Alumni Network, NYU LGBT Alumni Network, The Actors Fund, Hollywood Radio & Television Society, Women in Film and National Association of Latino Independent Producers. Jim is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts ("Pitching Your Television Series to the Industry Pros") and guest speaks at NYU, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Montclair State University and University of theArts in Philadelphia. He is a member of the New York State, New York City and LGBT Bar Associations.