Today’s guest is a communications strategist and international consultant on a mission to help people create quality communications. As a presentation/pitch coach and media training expert, she has helped hundreds of clients prepare for high-stakes communications including TED and TEDx talks, keynotes, fundraising pitches, commencement speeches, job interviews and appearances on TV and at public events.

She knows a thing or two about presenting, having spoken to more than a half million people worldwide and to hundreds of organizations including National Geographic, Cisco, Fortune 500 Forum, Intel, Nationwide, and NASA.

She is the author of several books which have been endorsed by dozens of thought leaders including Stephen Covey, Dan Pink, Tony Robbins, Keith Ferrazzi, Ken Blanchard, and Marshall Goldsmith. One of her books, “Got Your Attention?” became a Washington Post bestseller. Her latest book is “Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life.”

She is the Founder and CEO of the Intrigue Agency where she helps people create respectful, collaborative, compelling, one-of-a-kind communications and projects that scale their income and positive influence – for good.

Please join me in welcoming Sam Horn.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is the ability to influence others to act.”
• how an experience in high school was the first time she understood her ability to lead.
• her advice on having great conversation, including the encouragement to not go for the lowest fruit.
• the importance she places on approaching all conversation with curiosity.
• how she transforms pitches by asking three “do you know?” questions, and how she helps others do the same.
• three steps to asking others for endorsements respectfully.
• her goals for having deep and meaningful conversation around the world through her Someday Salons.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 125

Today’s guest is a pioneer in the world of high growth women entrepreneurs. As the CEO of the Thought Leadership Lab, she works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, executives, and non-profit leaders to scale their influence and impact.

Previously, she was the founding CEO of the first trade association for high growth women entrepreneurs and the co-founder of Springboard, the women’s startup launchpad that has led to over $8 billion in funding for women founded and led companies.

She lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is the author of “Ready to Be a Thought Leader?”

Please join me in welcoming Denise Brosseau.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “My view of leadership was formed by a mentor I met in my thirties. He saw leadership as vision, relationships, and executions.”
• how leadership showed up in her early life and how it has grown over the years.
• her passion for the work she does today, working with purpose-driven leaders of all ages.
• her method for creating and sustaining relationships with people through consistently showing up.
• how her college taught her about women in leadership and where the alumni association has taken her.
• her strategic plan for making an impact, learning and going into all situations with curiosity.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 124