Entries by laura.penn@theleadershipspeakingschool.com

Just Survive? or Thrive? The Challenges and Opportunities for Leaders Communicating in the Digital Age

I’m a child of the 1970’s. I grew up in the “latch-key” generation, a Gen-X cohort of kids who came home from school to an empty house because our parents were working. The pop culture image of our generation looks like a child returning from school on their own, with their front door key hanging […]

Speechcraft & Storytelling, Two Communication Skills Every Leader of the Digital Age Must Know

Since the dawn of the digital age, the options for how to communicate with others to share messages, news and information have grown exponentially.  From a legion of social media outlets, to a wide selection of different online meeting rooms, to ever-evolving digital technology such as virtual reality and holograms, the options for communication available […]

Leaders and Teams, Let’s Stop SURVIVING as Communicators and Let’s start THRIVING

Over the summer, I have been working on a wide variety of speaking projects with both leaders and teams, supporting them to show up as the best versions of themselves as they communicate with their peers, teams and customers. From dynamic and live master classes in public speaking, to online intensives refining and polishing existing […]

Six things that I wish I knew about public speaking as a teenager…

I was a nerd in high school.   Not the stereotypical buck-tooth, pocket protector, plaid-pants-wearing-kind.  My nerdom looked like a skateboarding, Shakespeare-loving, president-of-the-honor-society-kind. I loved being a good student and I flourished under the excellent care and attention of my extraordinary teachers…Mr. Fleisig my genius drama teacher whose catchphrase: “stay with me, stay with me” still […]