This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: Start 2026 with a Stronger Leadership Presence YOUR Top 10 Speak Like a CEO Episodes of 2025 Start 2026 with a Stronger Leadership Presence Before we dive into 2025's top episodes, I want to share two free webinars I'm hosting in January: Presentation Secrets - January 7 at 18:00 CET - This one helps you become a much stronger presenter. I share the techniques I use with C-Levels to cut prep time in half while doubling...
8 days ago • 3 min read
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:...
15 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...
22 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...
29 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...
about 1 month 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 5 min read