Dr. Laura Penn is an expert in leadership communication and the speaking arts. As the Founder of The Leadership Speaking School, across the globe, she transforms leaders and teams from the world's most well-known companies, business schools and organisations into authentic communicators of the digital age.
Her clients include the World Economic Forum, International Olympic Committee, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), IMD Business School, Ebay, Louis Vuitton Maison House (LVMH), Nespresso, Salesforce, Logitech, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and many more.
For the past two decades, Dr. Penn has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches and training sessions around the world, influencing her audiences of thousands to build better relationships, become better leaders and better their bottom lines through effective leadership communication.
As an international keynote speaker, she challenges the current status quo for leadership communication and inspires her audiences to think differently about how they speak with their peers, teams and customers. She explores tangible solutions to empower them to communicate with impact, authenticity and human connection. Her delivery is known for being bold, visionary and full of interactive audience participation.
Her keynote titles include: Communication Skills Every Leader of the 21st Century Must Know; As a Communicator, Do More of What Makes You Human; Build Better Relationships, Become Better Leaders and Better Your Bottom-line: Communication’s Business ROI; The Power of Leadership Communication for Women in Leadership; and Communicating Sustainability in Unsustainable Times.
Dr. Penn is a pioneer in the field of leadership communication for the digital age and champions a unique and powerful formula for communicating in our times. She is also an award-winning public speaker, author of multiple books, a four-time TEDx speaker, an author at UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations and the host of the Leadership Speaking Radio podcast.
In February 2024 we sat down virtually with Dr Laura Penn and discussed why businesses should prioritise human connection and authenticity in their communication strategies and the most common mistakes that business leaders make when communicating sustainability topics to their peers, teams and customers. Watch our Exclusive Interviews with Dr Laura Penn.
Books
The Public Speaking Toolbox: Your Essential Guide To Help You To Survive And Thrive In Front Of Audiences
How to hire Dr. Laura Penn
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Dr. Laura Penn's official speaking topics are listed below:
- The Future of Work
- Sustainability
- Female Motivation
- Business Communication
- Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Team Building
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
"Dr Penn is a brilliant speaker, she is an absolute inspiration. In a recent bespoke talk, Dr Penn had the desired effect I was looking for, which was to wake up people from their day-to-day issues and pessimism in business communication and really start to think of things differently! The genuine warmth, interest and care that Dr Penn takes to create and deliver her work shine through the performance. I really appreciate the time she took to understand our challenges and gave us not only just 'pie-in-the-sky' words about how to be authentic communicators, but actual, tangible actions of how we should create and deliver messages to our teams and colleagues...all backed up with awe-inspiring examples of how to personally put them into practice and make things happen! An absolutely fantastic and dynamic keynote speaker." - Sharon, Global Corporate Communications Manager, Nespresso
"Outstanding energy from start to finish. I was positively awakened by all of the lessons I learned and I am excited to use them all." - Philip, EMEA Pricing Associate Director, Medical Devices
"This talk represents a new approach to improvement in business communication, but more importantly, it strengthened my sense of purpose and taught me how to have an impact." - Andrew, Head of Accounts for Europe, Catalyx
"The immense benefits from our unique and highly energizing experience with Dr. Penn are clearly evident! She activated our team in a way that has increased awareness and attention to “presence” and the need to have an intention about how we “show up” for our team members. It also helped us better connect our minds to our bodies, and understand how we can use our voice and presence to connect more deeply with people. I found it hugely enriching and would recommend Dr. Penn's expertise far and wide! Thank you so much Dr.Penn." - Melinda, Head of EMEA Communications & Global Communications Director, Zimmer Biomet
- 2023 - The European leader in her field, currently serving the World Economic Forum, the International Olympic Committee, the United Nations, eBay, Logitech, Salesforce, Nestle, Roche, the IMD Business School, The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) the International Red Cross (ICRC), the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and many more of the world’s best-known companies, organizations and business schools.
- 2021 - Author at the UN Today the official magazine for the international United Nations
Community - 2020 - Founder and Host of The Leadership Speaking Radio Podcast
- 2020 - Awarded the honour of having two out of four of her TEDx talks featured on the TED.com platform, home of the world’s best talks
- 2016 - Author of “The Public Speaking Toolbox: Your Essential Guide to Help You to Survive and Thrive in Front of Audiences”
- 2013 - Awarded the distinguished prize of “European Champion of Public Speaking”
- 2013 - Author of “How to Enhance the Performance of Public Speaking: A Pocket
Coach” - 2011 - Awarded the distinguished prize of “Swiss Champion of Public Speaking”
- 2010 - Founded The Leadership Speaking School, “Europe’s most transformational
business communication school”
