Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

Today Laura chats with architect Kevin Ervin Kelley, co-founder with Terry Shook, FAIA, of the strategic design firm Shook Kelley, who is all about creating places and experiences that have the power to convene people. Doesn’t that sound cool?Making the audience the star of the place allows both Creators and Capitalists to get clear on what kind of payoff they need to provide to consumers in exchange for their time, energy, and expense.Successful architects and designers are also master communicators and today is our chance to learn from a high AQ A-Lister! (AQ = Aesthetic Intelligence.) The competitive edge has shifted already and that matterswhether you lead a company or want to stand out as a thought leader.But a little less Alan Turing and a bit more William Shakespearewould change everything.While Kevin works a lot with retail and other public-facing industries,expectations are now radically different no matter where you work! Mercado is an excellent example of the future successful grocery store. You’ll learn in this fascinating conversation how to think about place in the modern context.Top-notch takeaways include:🔥What you must know about our “Replacement Economy” (before we’re replaced 🤣)🎯The pioneer essential skill needed for career success right now🎤How and why office space has radically changed (hint: new purpose)🛒What’s about to change in our grocery stores! 💰How Kevin and Terry Shook, FAIA built their firm SELLING big ideas (you can copy this!)🚀Use the work/payoff ratio (WPR) to make better decisions🔥The importance of Bonfire Events and their “participation mystique”ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:Kevin Ervin Kelley is an award-winning architect, brand innovator, and co-founder of the strategic design firm Shook Kelley, with offices in Los Angeles and Charlotte. Over the last three decades, he has worked closely with the executive leadership teams of some of the world’s most well-knownbrands, such as Harley Davidson, Whole Foods, Kroger, Kraft, Nabisco, JM Smucker, Cadbury, The Cleveland Orchestra, professional sports teams, universities, urban districts, and hundreds of local and regional enterprises.His expertise is convening people in the public realm and studying how the environment of a place affects behavior, perception, and decision-making.He is a frequent speaker at retail, food, and other consumer-relatedconferences in the U.S. and Asia and has taught courses at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for many years.FOR YOU:Convinced about your executive presence when you walk into that meeting? Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use good metaphors? Such are the executive micro skills!!!Now you can know ALL of these juicy key details, thanks to our brand spanking-new Speak Up 360. It’s a cutting-edge leadership development 360 tool designed exclusively for highly-conscientious senior leaders like you. It’s focused exclusively on HIGH-IMPACT communication skills!With Speak Up 360, you'll receive comprehensive, CUSTOMIZED 360-degree feedback on all aspects of executive presence, influence, meeting behavior, and public speaking. Gain a personalized road map to get even better using insights from peers, subordinates, and superiors. Identify specific strengths,address actionable areas for improvement, and excel in key leadership dimensions.To give your emerging executives the opportunity to polish theircommunication skills using the Speak Up 360, schedule a quick call.Visit www.speakupwithlaura.com to learn how Laura’s allergy to boring helps leaders speak up and make things better.Want to make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. We appreciate you!WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

Lydia Menzies started her career as the second-grade teacher we all wish we had -> creating igloos in the classroom that doubled as reading centers and that would later transform into space ships. (Her lessons occasionally blew out the school’s electricity.) In this conversation, Laura and Lydia talk about what makes an event exceptional and the details that make it memorable.Lydia’s a pro at building communities through extraordinary social events, such as Supper Club for business owners (Laura’s a member) and now Party Prep School for anyone who wants to uplevel their social life.Building community starts with building relationships beyond theone-on-one, something that many introverts find intimidating (after hearing this episode your fear of reaching out will vanish!)Lydia shares some of her secrets to over-the-top meaningful gatherings:🎂How to select the best theme for your child’s exceptional birthday party🔑Her best source for unique party favors🧩Easy ways to entertain for introverts🏆 The element that helps people bond in a social situation💎Her winning process for creating meaningful gatheringsABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:Lydia Menzies is an entertaining expert with a knack for adding memorable creative details to everything from large parties to smaller-scale celebrations.Her mission is to make each celebration a unique experience for her guests-and Lydia teaches you how to achieve the same looks and goals through her Supper Club and her award-winning blog.She can make the most mundane affair one to remember! She loves a good play-on-words and a unique party theme. Lydia also loves to spoil her guests and is known for searching hard for the perfect party favors! Anything she touches just seems to have a “little extra something special” to it.Lydia has also had the opportunity to host and chair countless charity events including events for the American Heart Association, local Women’s Leagues, and local schools.FOR YOU:Confident about your executive presence? Your influence? How do you show up in meetings? Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use good metaphors? All those executive micro skills!!!Now you can know ALL of these juicy key details, thanks to our brand spanking-new Speak Up 360. It’s a cutting-edge leadership development 360 tool designed exclusively for highly-conscientious senior leaders like you. It’s focused exclusively on HIGH-IMPACT communication skills!With Speak Up 360, you'll receive comprehensive, CUSTOMIZED 360-degree feedback on all aspects of executive presence, influence, meeting behavior, and public speaking. Gain a personalized roadmap to get even better using insights from peers, subordinates, and superiors. Identify specific strengths,address actionable areas for improvement, and excel in key leadership dimensions.To give your emerging executives the opportunity to polish theircommunication skills using the Speak Up 360, schedule a quick call. Visit www.speakupwithlaura.com to learn how Laura’s allergy to boring helps leaders speak up and make things better.Want to make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. We appreciate you!WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

Drastically improve your process for hiring people AND applying for a job.Starting today. Post-COVID the science of interviewing has advanced radically. Today’s guest, Anna Papalia, is a career influencer and TikTok Interview Expert that lays so many game-changing truths on us.Because 90% of hiring managers aren't trained on how to interview, they fall prey to their implicit bias when judging candidates and making hiring decisions. Job seekers, equally as mystified by the process, follow stale advice, memorizing rote answers that aren't true to who they are.Interviewing needs to innovate to meet current expectations and the shortage of top talent. Anna shares so many actional nuggets from her INTERVIEWOLOGY book and training program that help you see your personal interview archetype, and then that of others.Our biases are born from our preferences.She calls “charmers” those who see an interview as a performance—it’s a stage and they enjoy being the star of the show. Another type, Challengers, see an interview as a cross-examination, and want their questions answered.Examiners are those who see an interview as a pass/fail test and Harmonizers see an interview as a tryout for a team that they want to join.You’re going to want to take notes to capture these high ROI interviewing insights like:🧦The interview type that is overused (like worn-out socks you need to toss!)🧩The #1 mistake hiring managers make🗑What hiring systems need to ditch asap to improve candidate experience🎤The top 3 persuasive myths about interview style🧠How your “weakness” is really a strength that’s overusedABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:Anna Papalia is known as TikTok’s “Interview Expert”' (1.5M social media followers) and author of INTERVIEWOLOGY on the new science of interviewing.She has consulted with Fortune 100 companies, taught at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and coached over 10,000 clients to interview better. Her groundbreaking discovery of Interview Styles revolutionized the way we teach and understand interviewing. She is also a public speaker at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and DisruptHR. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.FOR YOU:How about your executive presence? Your influence? How do you show up in meetings? Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use good metaphors? All those executive micro skills!!!Now you can know ALL of these juicy key details, thanks to our brand spanking-new Speak Up 360. It’s a cutting-edge leadership development 360 tool designed exclusively for highly-conscientious senior leaders like you. It’s focused exclusively on HIGH-IMPACT communication skills!With Speak Up 360, you'll receive comprehensive, CUSTOMIZED 360-degree feedback on all aspects of executive presence, influence, meeting behavior, and public speaking. Gain a personalized roadmap to get even better using insights from peers, subordinates, and superiors. Identify specific strengths, address actionable areas for improvement, and excel in key leadership dimensions.To give your emerging executives the opportunity to polish theircommunication skills using the Speak Up 360, schedule a call. Visit www.speakupwithlaura.com to learn how Laura’s allergy to boring helps leaders speak up and make things better.Want to make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. We appreciate you!

Today is your chance to get a glimpse into the future of business growth. You’ll learn about newly-minted mindsets like “Kaleidoscopic Vision” and “Synchronized Performance”. Laura chats with senior Prophet Partner Ted Moser, author of WINNING THROUGH PLATFORMS. Moser is known for helping companies thrive in the face of change, developing methodologies for growth acceleration as the customer journey evolves.Growth is the main focus of this conversation, where Ted shares examples from platform powerhouses like Amazon, Uber, and AirBnB. Moser relates how to earn customer loyalty and establish lifetime value. He also explores how companies we may not consider as “tech elite” are using platform models in surprising ways to win over the market.Some of the mind-blowing takeaways include:🔎What finding the invisible truth about a situations tells you💰How selling ideas relates to the story of value🚀The 3 major mindset shifts future success requires🔑Build your customer coalitions according to these 6 archetypes✅ Examples of platform excellence that drive competitive advantage🔥Ted’s best tips for selling ideas and changing how people thinkABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:Digital platforms are no longer for tech elite or customer-facing companies.Over the next five years, every business must creatively use platforms as a catalyst for future growth, no matter the industry. As an expert on customer and market evolution, Ted Moser has spent the last decade developing innovative growth strategies that evolve with the customer use journey.Ted is a Senior Partner at Prophet, a growth and transformation consultancy.He helps clients to anticipate customer and market evolution, align on distinctive value growth strategies, and realize their ambitions.He specializes in the development of successful platform business models, whether a company is evolving as a current platform business or transforming to become one. He works across multiple industries, with deep experience in enterprise IT and medical technology (hardware, software, andservices), business and consumer services, media and entertainment, financial services, and FMCG.FOR YOU:How about your executive presence? Your influence? How do you show up in meetings? Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use good metaphors? All those executive micro skills!!!Now you can know ALL of these juicy key details, thanks to our brand spanking-new Speak Up 360. It’s a cutting-edge leadership development 360 tool designed exclusively for highly-conscientious senior leaders like you. It’s focused exclusively on HIGH-IMPACT communication skills!With Speak Up 360, you'll receive comprehensive, CUSTOMIZED 360-degree feedback on all aspects of executive presence, influence, meeting behavior, and public speaking. Gain a personalized roadmap to get even better using insights from peers, subordinates, and superiors. Identify specific strengths, address actionable areas for improvement, and excel in key leadership dimensions.To give your emerging executives the opportunity to polish theircommunication skills using the Speak Up 360, schedule a quick call.Visit www.speakupwithlaura.com to learn how Laura’s allergy to boring helps leaders speak up and make things better.Want to make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. We appreciate you!WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

What a treat you’re in for! Learn from Laura’s chat with a scrappy farm girl Jane Boulware, to learn how she made it from the Iowan cornfields to become a marketing whiz at Kimberly-Clark and then to the top levels of leadership at Microsoft.Jane makes it so clear that being nice and being firm are not mutually exclusive. She’s all about supporting and empowering others, even aftermaking a career change that appeared to be a big mistake for quite some time. Laura gets this former Microsoft executive to spill the tea on how to grow a high-performance team, how to ask questions that quickly deliver insight of the most valuable kind, and what to say when you don’t know what to say. 😀Even more useful than titanium Spanx, enjoy these life-altering gems:🔑What you need to put together a high-performing team, even when you inherit a team⛑ Exactly how to deal with making a job change that seems like a huge mistake🔥What it means to be “level agnostic” and how that helps you🎯Some driving questions to get to what’s really going on, fast!🏆How to think about your team so you bring out their bestAll proceeds from the sale of her book go to the Boys and Girls Club of America.ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:No one expected Jane Boulware, living in poverty, who paid for college selling used carpet and her mom's prayers, to become a leader of billion-dollar businesses and a top Microsoft executive. Worthy is more than just a tale of personal and professional triumph. Seamlessly blending humor, introspection, and a fiery spirit, the book confronts societal norms and the demanding realm of corporate America. Jane delves deep, sharing her triumphs, personal struggles, and battle with bulimia, all approached with genuine transparencyand compassion.Experienced board member, C-Level Executive, dynamic speaker and marketing/sales pioneer in technology and consumer products companies.Top executive at Microsoft and CMO. Chairman of non-profits, start-ups and mature businesses.Launched and built three businesses, each achieving $500M-$1B. VP of $10B merger. Spearheaded $3M Covid fundraiser. Charismatic leader andactivator specializing in turn-around and new business building. Creates high performing cultures, organizations and relationships.First in family to attend college/MBA, leave the Midwest and experience people and life she didn't know existed.FOR YOU:It’s hard to know exactly what needs to change. Is it to speak up more often? Or maybe speak less? Or speak louder? Or would better posture help?How about your executive presence? Your influence? How you show up in meetings?Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use goodmetaphors? All those executive micro skills!!!Now you can know ALL of these juicy key details, thanks to our brand spanking-new Speak Up 360. It’s a cutting-edge leadership development 360 tool designed exclusively for highly-conscientious senior leaders like you. It’s focused exclusively on HIGH-IMPACT communication skills!With Speak Up 360, you'll receive comprehensive, CUSTOMIZED 360-degree feedback on all aspects of executive presence, influence, meeting behavior, and public speaking. Gain a personalized roadmap to get even better using insights from peers, subordinates, and superiors. Identify specific strengths,address actionable areas for improvement, and excel in key leadership dimensions.To give your emerging executives the opportunity to polish theircommunication skills using the Speak Up 360, schedule a quick call. Visit www.speakupwithlaura.com to learn how Laura’s allergy to boring helps leaders speak up and make things better.Want to make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. We appreciate you!WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

Today’s international guest, José Ucar, author of Global Influence breaks down how to amplify one’s global impact and create meaningful connections across cultures and borders. Everyone listening to this podcast either works for a global brand, or a company with international teams, or a company with international clients and/or suppliers. We are all working in the global economy.This conversation between Laura and José drops so many tips and anecdotes to help leaders develop their ability to inspire, to build trust, to influence others no matter where they’re located or place of origin.. We cover a range of influence topics, honing in on how to express yourself confidently, simplify your communication and resolve conflicts with ease.It’s so important to remember the value of authenticity and how being yourself is the true foundation of communicating impactfully with others.Finally, José and Laura share their process for building global influence, realizing that no conversation is neutral so let’s leave people better off after any interaction we have with them.Enjoy diamond-studded takeaways like:🔑What to do about being judged🚀How to respond to pre-conceptions others may have about you👑What it means to build global influence (it’s not being a social media Influencer!)🎯 A framework for building influence in any interaction🎤How to speak in a meeting or presentation if you have an accentABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:José Ucar is an international influence and communication expert, with over a decade of experience working with businesses such as Procter & Gamble, SEAT-CUPRA, and Amazon. He is a Tedx Speaker, trainer and coach, who helps business leaders to build strong and successful international relationships with customers and colleagues alike. Jose’s mission is to enable organizations to communicate effectively across nations in a way that gives them a competitive edge.FOR YOU: This episode is brought to you by the Swiss Army knife of compelling communication, aka The Practical Guide to Effective Communication by Laura Camacho. Makes a helpful gift for anyone who wants to experience success in life as communication is about 90% of the value we bring to thetable.To have Laura Camacho put your peeps through a learning experience where they literally build their influence skills in real time, schedule a quick call.See more at www.speakupwithlaura.comWant to actually make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcast review to help others find this life-altering insight. Our Big Goal for 2024 is to reach 100 podcast reviews. We appreciate your help!WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

In this podcast episode, Laura Camacho focuses on the executive theme of being articulate. She defines what it means to be articulate and shares her five steps to becoming more articulate: speaking up, selling it before you tell it, using clear structure, incorporating flair with a sizzle file, and slowing down speech for improved clarity.

Laura chats with a totally different kind of guest this week - entrepreneur, investor, and luxury Modern Victorian home builder, John Gioffre. Not an introvert, Gioffre became an industry thought leader while acting as an industry outsider, meaning he doesn’t always follow the rules of how you’re supposed to work in the real estate development and luxury home construction business.You may have seen John’s work online as he was the first to build a home in the Modern Victorian style, which set off a big trend in luxury home building.Let that be a cue to you - have the courage to deviate from the ways “things have always been done” – when it makes good sense to do so. That’s precisely how thought leadership is formed. John shares all the many ways he deviated from the norms and in the process built a stellar reputation and a successful business.Not only will you learn real-estate investing ideas from our guest, but also unusual takeaways like these:💰How to get started as a real estate investor🧐Why it’s a good time to buy real estate now💎The thing you must not let drive your investing decisions🔑Keys to dealing with extremely upscale stakeholders or clients🔥How you absolutely have to take the lead in managing key business relationshipsABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:John Gioffre is a multi-faceted professional who serves as an entrepreneur and investor. He is owner and head of operations at Revent Builds, an award-winningluxury home building firm in Austin, Texas. Gioffre leverages his ten years of business experience, legal acumen, and natural curiosity to revolutionize the construction industry's customer experience. His primary goal is to contribute to the community by assisting clients in realizing their American Dream. He accomplishes this by creating distinct and aesthetically pleasing homes that seamlessly blend with the character of Austin.John is passionate about helping the next generation of blue-collar leaders, not only because they are the backbone of many industries, like real estate, but also because these jobs are worthwhile pursuits for those seeking to be entrepreneurs. He launched Build Camp, a construction incubator meant to educate those who want to get involved in the homebuilding business, whether they have the experience or not.FOR YOU: This episode is brought to you by the Swiss Army knife of compelling communication, aka The Practical Guide to Effective Communication by Laura Camacho. Makes a helpful gift for anyone who wants to experience success in life as communication is about 90% of the value we bring to the table.To have Laura Camacho put your peeps through a learning experience wherethey literally build their influence skills in real time, schedule a quick call.See more at www.speakupwithlaura.comWant to actually make the world better? Please leave us a 5-star ⭐️podcastreview to help others find this life-altering insight. WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!!Just in time for your travels, I've selected 3 episodes to re-release because they are JUST THAT GOOD. This is the 3rd of three :)Welcome to episode #2 in the Supper Club Series! This conversation spotlights publicist Patricia Mae Olson (@patricia_mae_olson), an influencer, owner of Piqued PR, podcaster, and member of the Supper Club, a group of high-end lifestyle business owners.Patricia’s PR firm, Piqued PR operates in the suburbs of Philadelphia and offers public relations, social media management, influencer marketing, events for fashion and lifestyle brands. Patricia Mae believes in decorating colorfully, entertaining in style, and dressing preppy with a twist.The way you present yourself communicates to your audience, even before you open your mouth. Learn about the connection between appearance and perception, and some high ROI tips to look your best.In this chic and chatty episode we share some lovely jewels for you:- How Instagram changed advertising and its audiences- The Instagram mindset that can propel your career and/or business growth- Introverts and others! Use social media to build your professional network- Clothing makes you feel a certain way, leverage that strategically- First impressions are largely shaped by the way you dress- Whether male or female, choose accessories to elevate your look- Nail that meeting with an intimidating audience (or television appearance)This episode brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute by Laura Camacho, PhD.WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!Just in time for your travels, I've chosen 3 episodes to re-release because they are JUST THAT GOOD.In this phenomenal episode of Speak of with Laura Camacho, Dr. Camacho has a crucial conversation with global expert on leadership communications, Gina London.Gina is CEO of a global consulting firm called Language of Leadership. She is an Emmy Award-winning former CNN correspondent and TedEx speaker based in Ireland. She now teaches members of the workforce worldwide to gain visibility and authentic confidence. Her work helps people to connect with themselves and others more comfortably and effectively.This insanely relevant conversation covers topics such as:The authenticity conundrum: what it is and why it’s a problemA better definition for authenticity (it’s all about values)The glory of self-acceptance and self-improvementWhy communications aka “the human stuff” is everythingHow to be kind with under-performers while getting them to step UPA step-by-step process for communicating at a higher levelWhy people zone out in your meetings and how to fix itWhat working visibly really means and how to do itThe power of inserting personal anecdotes into your presentationsThis helpful episode is brought to you by “The Practical Guide to Effective Communication” by Laura Camacho, PhD. It’s available on Amazon in paperback and digital format and has everything you need to be recognized for the value you already contribute.WIth Speak Up communication training, individuals learn to enhance their executive presence, influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking to engage audiences and beat imposter syndrome.