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Lead the Room: Leadership communication for women in business

Speak with confidence. Lead with impact. Inspire change. Five days to turn your expertise into influence, get heard, back your case, and make people follow.

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Leadership Communication for Women in Business is an immersive five-day bootcamp designed for women who already have the expertise, managers, senior leaders, founders, and expert specialists, and want their delivery to match it. The programme addresses the gap between strong ideas and being heard: it treats challenges like being interrupted, hedging, and the double bind of warmth versus authority as communication problems with practical, trainable solutions.

The course covers the full cycle of leadership communication, built around the eight competencies of the Wheel of Public Speaking: goal, structure, interaction, storytelling, confidence, visual delivery, voice, and body language. The five days move progressively from inner confidence and executive presence (Day 1), through goal-setting, structure, and persuasion (Day 2), a full day of business storytelling (Day 3), voice, body language, and performing under live pressure (Day 4), to visual delivery and final presentations with a personal development plan (Day 5).

Delivered in a small group to guarantee repeated speaking practice, the bootcamp follows a consistent methodology in every block: theory, business example, participant practice, and feedback. All work is done on participants' real cases, an upcoming presentation, a difficult deck, a moment that went badly, rather than invented scenarios. Progress is measured, not assumed: participants complete the Wheel of Public Speaking self-assessment before and after the programme, and video recordings on Days 1 and 4 provide a direct before-and-after comparison. The week concludes with a final presentation, structured feedback against the eight competencies, and a 90-day personal development plan with peer accountability.

What you'll walk away with

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

→Project executive presence that reads as authority in high-stakes settings - boardrooms, stages, and tense meetings, while balancing gravitas, warmth, and authority.
→Identify and eliminate confidence "leaks" in their communication, including hedging, over-explaining, apologising, and rushing.
→Formulate a clear communication goal for a specific audience and structure any message to achieve a decision or result, rather than simply passing on information.
→Simplify complex content, deliver the main point first, and open and close with lines that do real persuasive work.
→Persuade without pressure — speak to stakeholders' actual interests, handle objections calmly, and hold a position under challenge without hardening.
→Construct and deliver compelling business stories using proven structures (situation–tension–resolution–meaning; before/after/bridge; pivotal moment), and maintain a personal story bank across the five leadership story types: origin, vision, case, values, and lesson-from-failure.
→Use voice and body language deliberately as instruments of authority, controlling pace, pauses, intonation, and energy; using gesture, posture, eye contact, and space with intention; and ending statements with downward inflection.
→Manage a live audience under pressure - hold and recover a room's attention, respond to hostile questions and interruptions, reclaim the floor when talked over, and think on their feet.
→Design slides that support rather than compete with the speaker, applying one-idea-per-slide discipline and turning data into meaningful narrative.
→Assess and plan their own development using before-and-after Wheel of Public Speaking results and video comparisons, leaving with a 90-day personal development plan and peer accountability structure.

Who this is for

Women in business who already have the expertise, and want their delivery to match it.

Built for managers, senior leaders, founders and expert specialists stepping into more visible roles: women who

present to boards and clients, pitch ideas, run meetings, negotiate, and lead teams.

The week, day by day

Monday

ME & CONFIDENCE

The foundation: who you are as a leader and as a communicator, and what is currently getting in the way.

Tuesday

GOAL, AUDIENCE & STRUCTURE

Say the right thing, to the right people, in the right order, and get a decision, not just a nod.

Wednesday

STORYTELLING IN BUSINESS

A leader's most portable tool. One full day, because a story you can actually tell takes more than an hour to build.

Thursday

VOICE, BODY & THE LIVE ROOM

The most intensive day: presence, sound, and command when it is all happening in real time.

Friday

VISUALS, FINAL PRESENTATIONS & INDIVIDUAL PLANS

Put the whole week together, in front of the room, and leave with a plan.

Sun evening check-in → Sat morning check-out · 40+ hours of live training

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