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...
12 days 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...
19 days 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...
26 days 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: 15 Power Moves to Ace Virtual Meetings FREE Workshop: From AI User to AI Leader How to Get to the Point How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience 15 Power Moves to Ace Virtual Meetings Zoom calls are here to stay. Often for hours every day. The problem? Most of them still feel awkward, forgettable, or draining. These 15 power moves will make you the most impactful person on any Zoom call. Use them to lead with confidence,...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: How to Small Talk FREE Workshop: AI for Leaders How to Speak Like a Top 1% Leader Is the Medium Really The Message? How to Small Talk Most people loathe small talk. “How are you?” “What do you do?” “Nice weather, isn’t it?” But the dislike isn’t evenly distributed. The younger and more introverted you are, the more likely you are to cringe at small talk about traffic, the weather, or last night’s game. I spare you the...
2 months ago • 3 min read
This week in the world’s #1 newsletter on leadership communication: The Top 10 Interview Questions Every Leader Should Ask How to Run Virtual Meetings That Energize, Not Drain Manage Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You The Top 10 Interview Questions Every Leader Should Ask Have you ever been in this situation? Five minutes before you start the interview with a promising candidate, you finally manage to take a quick look at their resumé. Then you start the interview with “tell me about...
2 months ago • 4 min read