Communicate with Power: July 2024

A world-class program designed for women to deliver your message with authority and present your most persuasive self.

Kate Mason, Ph.D.

Founder, Hedgehog + Fox

Communicate with Power - How To Show Up with Authentic Presence and Impact

Google

Khan Academy

YouTube

Netflix

Microsoft

I've taught thousands of women around the world to step into their authority and communicate powerfully in a way that feels good to them. Now, online and live, come join a cohort of incredible women from today's most interesting companies to learn together. In my workshops, I share strategies, research and stories that illuminate how women can use power authentically to get what they want and deserve. The course features discussions and practical exercises so you learn how to integrate tactics and tools into your own communication style. I believe invisible communication binaries exist in the corporate workplace, and set women up for frustration and sometimes failure from the outset.When we become hyper-vigilant about *how* we say things (and less about *what* we say), we don't show our true selves or our actual capabilities. This is a lose-lose for our organizations, our families, our communities, and, of course, ourselves. With over twenty years of coaching women from high school students through to CEOs and executives at companies like Netflix, Uber, Google, Microsoft and many more, I teach creative, powerful and important ways to show up and operate.

Learn powerful tools to turn up your volume at work.

Exceptional women who are looking for the inside scoop on how to improve their impact at work.&nbsp;

Emerging women leaders who are looking for career development and to rise in their organization.

Brilliant team members who have been told to "develop executive presence" and are frustrated by that annoyingly vague advice. 😉&nbsp;

Who is this course for?

Engage your audience and communicate the most authentic, powerful version of yourself.

Charting a path to your most authentic self is the core of this course. We'll work on specific tactics to help boost your presence, like building clear arguments to convince stakeholders, and learning strategies to persuade and cement your credibility.

Step into authority (even if it feels foreign).

Learn how to stand out from your peers with specific techniques to advocate better for yourself and your team, scope out clear wins and right-size your evidence to be its most compelling.

Become more visible at work
 

My workshops are developed from my own experiences as an operator in big tech and start-ups for over a decade. I use research and stories to bring theory to life, so you get practical, grounded and actionable advice.

Get practical, hands-on advice 

I bring a wealth of logic, structured argumentation, refutation and presentation skills honed on some of the most adversarial stages in the world: I've won a world championship and have ranked 9th best speaker in the world, 4th best in Asia, and overall best speaker in Australia.

World-ranked debate expertise

Exceptional women leaders from technical and non-technical backgrounds do this course: we have alumni from non-profits, VCs, and companies like Benchling, Bloomberg, Blue Origin, Coursera, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg, Medtronic, Procreate, World Surf League, Zapier and many more.

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<ul><li>Learn five habits which might be holding you back from communicating effectively.</li><li>Identify your own triggers when it comes to feeling confident in a room and understand what you can do to mitigate them.&nbsp;</li><li>Conceptualize your own version of power and map out your goals for the course.</li></ul>

📢   What turns your volume up (and what turns it down?)

<ul><li>Explore five strategies to persuade your stakeholders to help you get what you want.</li><li>Review real examples of behaviors that increase persuasion, power and authority.</li><li>Practice using persuasive language for different work scenarios.</li></ul>

🔥 Strategies for being persuasive: Stepping into authority

<ul><li>Learn five techniques which directly help you hold your ground in adversarial situations.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Identify the levers of control you have (but might not feel) in difficult conversations and how to navigate them more easily.&nbsp;</li><li>Workshop some challenging scenarios with the group to see the techniques in action.</li></ul>

💬  Holding your conviction: Communicating in adversarial situations

<ul><li>Determine the various different modes of persuasion through emotion, centering on calm.</li><li>Analyze how calm is a powerful mode through using four main tactics.</li><li>Establish our own sense of authentic communication within a calm leadership framework.</li></ul>

💅  Communicating with comfort: How calm reinforces power and authority

Course syllabus

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Interactive workshop #1: Interactive lecture and small group break-outs to workshop, practice and share ideas as we learn them.

Monday: July 29, 2024

Interactive workshop #2: Interactive lecture and small group break-outs to workshop, practice and share ideas as we learn them.

Wednesday: July 31, 2024

Interactive workshop #3: Interactive lecture and small group break-outs to workshop, practice and share ideas as we learn them.

Monday: August 5, 2024

Interactive workshop #4: Interactive lecture and small group break-outs to workshop, practice and share ideas as we learn them.

Wednesday: August 7, 2024

Course schedule

So-called soft skills are actually really hard. Take time to get up to speed on strategies and tactics you use every day so you fully understand their foundations.

Learn what you were never taught

Explore perspectives and experiences different to your own. And meet some of the best women around at the same time.

Learning together > alone

Workshops are interactive and vibrant: and we also take time to apply skills back at work and re-group to measure how you improve and grow during the course itself.

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