Dr. Laura Penn

Business Communication and Leadership Speaking Expert

International authority on leadership speaking and authentic business communication for individual, team and company growth. Award-winning international speaker. Founder of one of Europe’s most transformational business communication schools. Dr. Laura Penn is the business communication expert of our times, transforming leaders and teams into authentic communicators of the Digital Age. She supports her audiences to unleash their full potential as communicators so that they can show up as the best versions of themselves everytime they speak with their peers, teams and customers. As the Founder of The Leadership Speaking School, Dr. Penn is a highly sought after global keynote speaker and master teacher, providing leaders, teams and companies with the game-changing tools and insights they need to foster collaboration, drive innovation and achieve sustainable growth. As a captivating keynote speaker, Dr. Penn shares how it’s time to ‘stop surviving’ as communicators and instead to ‘start thriving’, and leaves audiences with her proprietary formula for how to communicate with impact, authenticity and human connection, to any audience, any time. She received her BA from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from the University of Kent.

Dr. Laura Penn Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English

Dr. Laura Penn Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English

Why Dr. Laura Penn?

1.) International authority on leadership speaking and authentic business communication
2.) Founder of The Leadership Speaking School, one of Europe’s most transformational business communication schools, based in Switzerland
3.) She empowers her audiences with transformational tools which support them to communicate with their peers, teams and customers with impact, authenticity and human connection
4.) Her clients include the World Economic Forum, the International Olympic Committee, eBay, Logitech, Salesforce, Nestle, the IMD Business School, the International Red Cross, and many more…
5.) Her audiences walk away feeling activated on a cellular level to implement what they have learned straight away

Keynote Speaker Topics

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Unlocking Native Communication Potential for Personal, Team and Business Growth

In today’s fast-paced world, many business leaders are stuck in a rut of negative communication habits which limit their personal growth, their team’s development and their company’s success. These habits are learned over a lifetime and appear in the ways that they ...

In today’s fast-paced world, many business leaders are stuck in a rut of negative communication habits which limit their personal growth, their team’s development and their company’s success. These habits are learned over a lifetime and appear in the ways that they communicate with others through their presence, how they use their voices, how they move their bodies and how they show up in their general interactions with others.

Aimed at leaders and teams from the business community, this timely talk pulls back the curtain on how to unlock one’s native communication potential for personal team and business growth. Through a bold and visionary narrative delivered with a dynamic and participatory approach, Dr. Laura Penn will share powerful tools from her innovative and proprietary method, The Leadership Speaking Toolbox, to empower audiences to elevate how they communicate in front of their peers, teams and customers.

This exceptional Toolbox contains the keys needed to unlock unlimited communication potential for individuals, their teams and their companies. Audiences will walk away feeling activated on a cellular level to implement what they have learned straight away and they will be on the path to growing themselves and the companies they work for.

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Communicating Sustainability: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

“We’re at a tipping point, a fork in the road the likes of which humanity has never seen before. There is no Planet B and the time has come to communicate sustainability as if your life depends on it, because it does” – Dr. Laura Penn This timely, inspiring and ...

“We’re at a tipping point, a fork in the road the likes of which humanity has never seen before. There is no Planet B and the time has come to communicate sustainability as if your life depends on it, because it does” – Dr. Laura Penn

This timely, inspiring and empowering keynote will open the audience’s eyes to what they can do to communicate sustainability effectively, so that their messages stay in the room and so that they activate the hearts and minds of their colleagues, stakeholders and customers to take action and to think differently. Audiences will learn what it takes to communicate with impact, authenticity and human connection in this headline topic which affects us all. With a Doctorate in biodiversity management and a Masters degree in conservation biology, Dr. Penn’s first career was in the conservation and sustainability sector. She skillfully weaves her robust expertise together with her mastery of authentic business communication in this powerful talk, which delivers practical tools which can be put to use straight away, helping to make the world a better place, one communication at a time.

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About Keynote Speaker Dr. Laura Penn

Dr. Laura Penn is an international authority on business communication and leadership speaking. Award winning speaker, with the title of “European Champion of Public Speaking” and four-time TEDx speaker, earning the honor of twice being selected to appear on the prestigious TED.com platform, home of the world’s best talks, Dr. Penn knows her craft. She is the Founder of The Leadership Speaking School, the host of the popular podcast “Leadership Speaking Radio” and an author at UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations’ international community. She has written two books about her revolutionary methodology for business communication. Called “The Leadership Speaking Toolbox”, her ground-breaking approach reaches into the boardrooms, meeting rooms and conference halls of the world’s most well-known companies, business schools and organizations where she supports leaders and teams to thrive as effective communicators. Her clients include The World Economic Forum, The International Olympic Committee, The United Nations, The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), IMD Business School, Ebay, Nespresso, Salesforce, Logitech and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and many more.

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Dr. Penn’s keynotes are known for being bold, visionary and full of dynamic audience participation. She speaks on a range of contemporary topics including essential communication skills for business growth, communicating in the digital age and communicating sustainability. She explores tangible solutions to empower her audiences to communicate with impact, authenticity and human connection. Her talks support leaders to unleash their full potential as communicators so that they can show up as the best versions of themselves every time they speak with their peers, teams and customers. They help to increase engagement, productivity and collaboration for teams so that they can succeed as high-performing winning ensembles. And, her talks help to elevate the value and the positioning of companies so that they can both attract and retain talent and customers.

Native of Sweden and of New York City, Dr. Penn has an eclectic background as both a scientist and as a performing artist. With a Ph.D. in biodiversity management, Dr. Penn is a trained specialist in conservation biology. She is also an accomplished performing artist in dance, starting out as a break-dancer in the 80’s. Mother of two teenagers, she loves gardening, dancing in the living room, Spotify playlists and all things Japanese.