This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Master Your Next Team Presentation On the Show: Speak Up Without Freaking Out Book Recommendation: How to Know a Person How to Master Your Next Team Presentation Team presentations are hard to pull off. Most look like disconnected mini-talks. Having coached 10,000+ leaders in 50 countries, I can tell you this: Two or three people presenting together isn’t 2-3 times harder. It’s 10 times harder. Here’s what happens:...
8 days ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: 20 Negotiation Tactics that Made me $10M Free Webinar: How to Speak Like a Leader in 2026 Book: 25 Behavioral Biases that Shape our Choices 20 Negotiation Tactics that Made me $10M It’s that time of year again: budgets, contracts, salaries. Chances are, you’re negotiating something. (And if you’re not… maybe you should be.) Over the years, I’ve sold more than $10 million in services for my business. And if that’s taught me...
15 days ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Respond to Criticism without Losing Your Cool Book Recommendation: From Command & Control to Trust & Inspire How to Respond to Criticism without Losing Your Cool ‘That’s utter nonsense,’ my peer said in a meeting during my time at easyJet – the British equivalent of ‘you suck.’ As much as I wanted to put him back in his place, I knew it wasn’t smart to start a shouting match in front of ten colleagues. So I bit my...
21 days ago • 2 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Stand Out on Any Panel On the Show: How to Build an Emotionally Intelligent Team Book Recommendation: The Real Reason Everything Feels so Hard How to Stand Out on Any Panel Even the best leaders struggle with panels. Like last month. I attended a tech conference where a CEO coaching client of mine was on the panel. What happened? The same as on too many panels. The moderator let people ramble, the other panelists...
29 days ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Get Rid of Filler Words and Sounds Book Recommendation: The Soundtrack of Your Life Shapes Who You Are How to Get Rid of Filler Words and Sounds When I launched my podcast “Speak Like a CEO” 7 years ago, I was shocked by how often I said “you know”. The reason was simple: I filled the void to give myself time to think. Many leaders do it. We don’t want to say a wrong word and often have to break down complex material...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: Five Common Communication Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) On the Show: How to Speak as a CEO So People Actually Listen Book Recommendation: Geeks Do it Better – When They Open Up Five Common Communication Mistakes (And How to Fix Them) This is a guest post by my friend Matt Abrahams, host of the Think Fast Talk Smart podcast and lecturer of Strategic Communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Give him a listen...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Solve Million Dollar AI Problems On the Show: Anti-Fragile Communication - How to Win Pitches Book Recommendation: “Powerfully Likeable” Tackles Women’s Communication Struggles How to Solve Million Dollar AI Problems “AI is first and foremost a communication technology,” says Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu. He’s right – I started to introduce AI in my business 2 years ago, and it has completely transformed the way I...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: 7 Transitions That Make You Sound Like a Pro On the Show: Is Everything You Know About Leadership Wrong? Book Recommendation: The AI-Driven Leader *** Quick self-promotion before we start: If you want my help to become a top 1% communicator, you can now join the Speak Like a CEO Academy Winter cohort. There are 3 seats left. Join here. *** 7 Transitions That Make You Sound Like a Pro I worked with a CEO on this speaking...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: 7 Ways to Project Boardroom Confidence FREE Webinar: Confidence on Command Book: How to Write 5000 Words in 1 Hour 7 Ways to Project Boardroom Confidence The CMO shouts at the CTO: “That’s just not enough, buddy!” It was my most bewildering boardroom experience. They were arguing about who was to blame for missed financial targets. Ineffective marketing or tech glitches that reduced conversion? What made it almost comical was...
2 months ago • 3 min read