In association with Penguin Business and Campaign, Zone is delighted to host a virtual Book Club with Hollywood speech coach Samara Bay, author of Permission to Speak - How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You. We would like to invite you to hear Samara discuss the role of the voice in empowering women and championing inclusivity, and how this work can support employee wellbeing and challenge outdated perceptions of what power and authority sound like.
 
In Permission to Speak, Samara demonstrates that you don't have to speak like the status quo to be taken seriously. For many of us — women, people of colour, immigrants, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and beyond — we aren’t what ‘power’ has traditionally sounded like. Although there’s no shared language to describe that feeling, we know it nonetheless. We worry we’re 'too much' or too softly-spoken, that we say “like” too often or come across as too girly, too foreign, too emotional or too aggressive. And we bring that discomfort with us when we’ve got the chance to speak; in the moments that matter, we have trouble truly showing up at the magnitude our mission deserves. 

Rooted in sociolinguistics, psychology, social justice, and performance theory – Samara’s work encourages whole person leadership. She helps organisations and employers to listen with more generous ears and shift their culture, tackling old biases and tired tropes around what leadership and authority "should" sound like to ensure employees can confidently show up as their whole selves and use their voices to get what they want in the moments that matter.

The world needs diverse voices speaking up and getting heard.

Samara can show you how to make that happen.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from the voice coach behind Gal Gadot, Pierce Brosnan, Penélope Cruz, Rachel McAdams, and Anjelica Huston, who's also the coach for top C-suite executives, politicians, and entrepreneurs making waves. Join us to hear Samara’s revolutionary take on public speaking and a new definition of what power sounds like.

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