This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Speak so People Take Notes From Crisis to Comeback 44 Ideas for Better Conversations How to Speak so People Take Notes Before we start: I have opened up two 1:1 coaching spots for Q4. These are for ambitious leaders who want to become top 1% communicators before the year ends. If you are interested, hit reply to see if it’s a good fit. ————————————— I’m writing this 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, en route to Seattle –...
12 days ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Build a Six-Figure LinkedIn Profile Confidence on Command (Recording) Why Your Team Underperforms How to Have Conversations that Matter How to Build a Six-Figure LinkedIn Profile There are two ways you can make six figures with your LinkedIn profile: You can attract high-paying job offers. Or you can create leads for your business. I have chosen the latter path. Here’s how it works: A significant number of people find...
19 days ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: Quick Life Update & What’s Next Recording: Speak at Your Dream Conference From McDonald’s to McKinsey Killer Influence at Work Quick Life Update & What’s Next Before I go on my summer break, I thought I would give you a quick life update. To be honest, I can use a little time out. The last few months have been intense. From a loss in the family to changes in my team – life has a habit of throwing challenges at us. I have no...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How Assertive Leaders Speak With Strength The Summer You Turned into a Top Communicator How to Supercharge your Professional Presence Alchemy: The Magic of Original Thinking How Assertive Leaders Speak With Strength Last year I worked with a senior leader everyone considered to be nice. The problem: his peers walked all over him, his team didn’t take him seriously and he risked missing his targets for the year. For many...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to say NO like a PRO WEBINAR: How to Speak At Your Dream Conference How to Decode People: What Humans and AI Get Right – and Wrong Unlock the Secret Power of Groups How to say NO like a PRO “Working for a low-cost airline means saying NO to almost everything.” That’s what my boss said to me on my first day at easyJet 20 years ago. He was right. Every day, we got inundated with requests: interviews with the CEO, filming on...
2 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to teach ChatGPT about you My TEDx Talk: AI-Empowered Leadership Pitch Like a Pro: How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience How to Talk to Anyone How to teach ChatGPT about you Do you want to Influence What ChatGPT “Knows” About You? I certainly do. Because we used to google people. Now we ask ChatGPT. So my colleague Chelsea (who used to head an SEO agency in London) and I went on a deep dive. It’s a new field that...
2 months ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Deal with Difficult People How to Lead when AI is Smarter than You The €200 Book That’s Worth Five Times More ***My TEDx talk on the future of AI & leadership just dropped! Watch it here and let me know what you think in the comments!*** How to Deal with Difficult People Have you ever had to deal with a bully? Or someone who keeps interrupting you? Or worse, someone who puts you down one day but pretends to be your...
3 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Introduce Yourself Building Unforgettable Presence How to Introduce Yourself Most people get introductions wrong. Too stiff. Too long. Too forgettable. 🥱 Don’t underestimate first impressions like that. Here’s a simple hack to improve your first impression in 1 minute: Record yourself introducing yourself in 30 seconds. Watch the 30 seconds. Then ask: Would you be interested in meeting this person? Would you remember...
3 months ago • 2 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: 7 Things Destroying Your Authority Seth Godin: The World’s Racing to the Bottom – Do This Instead What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? 7 Things Destroying Your Authority You can have the best ideas. But still sabotage your authority. Having coached 300+ CEOs and founders, I see brilliant people unknowingly sabotage their presence. Like the founder I spoke to last week. He knew something was off, because he...
3 months ago • 3 min read