Last Updated on December 30, 2025 by Fly High Coaching
Executive communication skills are a career accelerator, enhancing clarity, brevity, and presence that move people to act! This episode shows how to frame messages for busy leaders, reduce noise, and make decisions faster. You’ll hear practical ways to sound confident, credible, and concise in any room.
Host and CEO Porschia, along with our guest Laurie Schloff, share proven structures for updates, proposals, and tough conversations. You’ll learn how to open with the outcome, back it with the “why,” and close with a crisp ask. We also cover tone, timing, and tailoring messages to different stakeholders.
They break down common pitfalls: over-talking, data dumping, vague asks, and how to fix them.You’ll get simple tools for improving meetings, email, and exec briefings, plus tips to handle Q&A with ease. Expect templates you can use immediately, without sounding scripted.
Laurie Schloff, renowned communication coach, author, and keynote speaker, has helped thousands of executives elevate presence, polish messaging, and deliver high-impact talks.Her approach blends clear frameworks, rehearsal tactics, and audience-first storytelling to drive results. Laurie’s coaching turns everyday updates into decisive executive conversations.
What you’ll learn:
- What “executive communication” really means, its impact, and how it can help you in the workplace.
- A simple script that opens with the result, gives the why, states options, makes the recommendation, and asks for approval.
- How to tailor your message by audience, adjust detail, risk framing, and next steps for executives, leaders, and people teams.
- Email and meeting template subject lines that signal action, one-screen updates, and 3-slide executive briefs.
- The art of sharing data without the dump: headline the insight, show one proof point, set aside the appendix for questions.
- 3 tips to handling tough questions without rambling.
- Common mistakes to avoid including weak openings, vague asks, filler words, and reading slides verbatim.
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Porschia: [00:00:00] Hello, I’m Portia Parker Griffin, and I wanna welcome you to the Career 1 0 1 Podcast, a place for ambitious professionals and seasoned executives who want an edge in their career. We’re talking about all of the things you were never taught or told when it comes to career growth, development, and change.
Now let’s get into it.
Today we are talking about executive communication with Lori Schlaf. As a lifelong communication coach, Lori Schlaf helps professionals achieve outstanding relationships and results through communication. He and she talk speech gyms and smart speaking. Our three internationally translated books, Lori has written.
They offer practical solutions to communication problems. Most organizations and individuals face [00:01:00] smart speaking was described by communication briefings as one of the best books ever written about speaking. Her expertise is sought after. Oprah and the Today Show have spotlighted Lori as the guest expert on communication, and she’s been featured in over 20 podcasts and publications.
From Cosmopolitan to the Wall Street Journal, Lori’s clients include Bain Capital, fidelity Investments, mass Mutual, Allstate, and Johns Hopkins. Hi Lori, how are you today? Hi, I am doing great. Thank you for that. Very lively intro. Great. Great. You are a lively lady and we are excited to have you with us to discuss executive communication.
But first we wanna know a little more about you. So tell me about 7-year-old
Laurie: Lori. 7-year-old Lori. It’s interesting. I always liked being in front of people and if I wasn’t a speech [00:02:00] coach, which I really was my whole career, I would’ve been a singer. There was only one problem. I didn’t really have too good a voice but I entertained anyway, so I liked being in front of people and.
So I get lots of thrills by being on a podcast or in the media. It just, I guess the dopamine goes Uhhuh 7-year-old liked putting on plays. Yeah, I liked performing in front of friends and relatives. So I can remember all kinds of things in friends’ basements where we invited the neighborhood parents to watch our shows.
And I would get into it wholeheartedly. So that was 7-year-old. And I also loved movie stars and to this day I actually went to an Academy Awards party. And my friend had a red carpet out and boy did I relish that walking on the red carpet. Even though I’ve had a very long career, I think, the 7-year-old still lives within.
Porschia: Yes. And it [00:03:00] sounds like she was a performer, and I see how that could lead to you supporting people with their communication and their presentation and all that you do today. So Lori, tell us about some highlights or pivotal moments in your career before you started the current business that you have today.
Laurie: Super as shared since early in my career, I’ve been a coach. However, my training was in speech and language pathology, and I’ve always been very achievement oriented. I’m a bit of a geek, so when it comes to, let’s say, reading rather than, light fiction, I might read about, the 12 parts of persuasion and communication.
So you could I’ve always been very interested in the field and. There wasn’t really an opportunity to do what was called coaching. When I first started in speech and language pathology. There were very few coaches. Now there’s zillions of coaches as we know Porsche.
And [00:04:00] I had the good fortune one day of running into a couple, a husband and wife who were running a company called the Speech Improvement Company, and.
I was very excited because I realized I loved talking to adults, motivated adults. I loved working with people who wanted to get to the next level of success. So basically I wanted to go into business. Is what was happening. And I went through the same struggles everyone goes through with that, which is leaving regular jobs, which are secure and going into entrepreneurship.
I actually, the job I left was at Northeastern University. I was a pro clinical instructor in the speech department helping graduate students learn about speech and speech pathology. So this is the good news. In the first year of being in consulting, I did better financially and in every other way.
I did twice as [00:05:00] well as I had in all the previous years. So apparently it was my calling and I stayed in, in speech coaching to till this day.
Porschia: Yeah. That is amazing Lori. You mentioned a lot of great things there. We also have an entrepreneurship series on this podcast, and then I would say about 25% of our clients have.
An entrepreneurial idea or endeavor that they’re interested in. So when you take yourself back to, working for the university, what was it that really motivated you to start your own business and take the leap?
Laurie: I felt, I think more secure. So in other words, there was the passion for going into business.
You know how sometimes you get, you can tell when you’re excited about something. So I heard my soon to be mentor on the radio talking about speech coaching, and my heart actually started beating fast a little bit, like falling in love and [00:06:00] falling in love with a profession. And then the timing was right.
Northeastern was going through Northeastern University. Where I was working was going through organizational changes. Everyone was feeling a little vulnerable as many people are feeling now. And also I had the security of having had lucky. I met my husband around that time and he seemed to feel comfortable with me not having that steady income for a while.
But as I said. Things progress very rapidly. I will give a cautionary note though, I encourage anyone who has a passion for coaching and my field is very unique. Executive communication coaching. By the way Porsche, I wrote an article on what is executive communication coaching. I wanna make sure I get it to you and so you can send it to your listeners.
I do wanna caution people that it’s much harder to make it because of the amount of competition that there is now, [00:07:00] that there wasn’t at the time I. When I got in. So timing does matter.
Porschia: You are so right. Lori nowadays there are a ton of coaches. I started coaching 12 years ago and we’re coming up on our 11th year in business.
And there weren’t a lot of coaches back then. There weren’t a lot of coaches when you got started. And then now there are a ton of coaches and so people really, I think they have to be discerning, about who to listen to and all of that. So we’re definitely going to put a link to your article in the show notes because I think that will definitely help people as well.
And I was actually just talking to a potential client before this call. She was telling me she checked out the podcast and really wanted to make sure a coach she found knew their stuff. You’re absolutely right about the competition. Yeah. Why did you decide to focus on communication as part of your expertise?
Laurie: It’s always been a passion of mine. I just love [00:08:00] observing. I love helping and I love planning and seeing results. So it’s that combination. So being interested in communication wasn’t something that. I, it was out of the blue or I that I picked from a list. It was always a genuine interest.
I know last night I noticed, for example a newscaster had different behaviors than she usually did. So that’s the kind of thing I just noticed. Intuitively though, a lot of people when they’re with me say they feel so self-conscious about how they speak, but that’s not necessary because when I’m not working, I’m not really about to start giving advice.
Porschia: Yeah, they might be thinking that you’re gonna critique them. So Lori, we discussed how to be a better communicator on the podcast back during episode 26. Why do you think discussing communication at work is important? [00:09:00]
Laurie: Here’s really how I see the world that we have our expertise. You’re an architect, you’re an engineer, you’re an artist.
So that’s that toolkit. That experience. And then the other piece is how do you communicate that with your team, with the outside world? And my job is to help people use communication tools as a road, as a means. As a pathway to success. ’cause I truly believe, and definitely Porsche weigh in on this, that the way somebody communicates or not for good or for bad, and none of us are perfect and none of us are gonna get a hundred percent of the jobs or the likability that we want.
80 or 90% is pretty good too. Yeah, I completely agree. If you agree. [00:10:00]
Porschia: Yes. And I talked to especially a lot of our executive and executive clients and then clients that are in like a management or leadership role. I’ve said so many times, it’s not necessarily about what you say, it’s about what your team heard and then the actions they took.
Based on what you said, so I’m sure you’ve had this too, Lori, where you have a client that says I told ’em what
to
Laurie: do and they just didn’t do it. Exactly. And now we’re getting into, what are some of the concerns that are brought up? So a huge one is what you just said, Portia, which is clarity, and the way often that the frustrated manager puts it is.
Oh my gosh. He goes on and on. I don’t know what he’s talking about. Or we will use the word being concise. In fact, I’ve developed a couple of big full scale programs because leadership. Did not feel that their managers, their [00:11:00] VPs, reported to them in a way that was effective. One program was called Executive Briefings, and I have to make my speech joke, it wasn’t about underwear.
Okay. That’s
Porschia: joke.
Laurie: Okay. And then again, another group of leaders said, we don’t have a lot of time. These people have to be very effective in how they. Report and how they appear and how they present at our meetings, at board meetings, and we really wanna be able to trust them. So I always say that I love taking people to the next level.
Yeah. The other thing about my work is I get engaged for results. So it’s not unusual to meet someone on a Monday who has a meeting on a Friday. I love, I always have my phone available in case a client texts me and says how great they did. Yes, I love it. I love it.
Porschia: And so I wanna clarify a little bit for the listeners.
Lori, I’ve found that [00:12:00] many professionals and executives struggle with their communication skills as a whole, but can you explain what executive communication is?
Laurie: Sure. It’s having the toolkit of best practices that helps you to lead and interact with your team and external clients or stakeholders in the most effective way possible.
And if we take the word effective. It means getting the results that you want. Now, we don’t want everyone to be the same. So Porsche, one of the first questions I’ll ask someone when I’m doing the initial consultation is, let’s pick your style words. What are those? I ask them to pick two words that describe how they’d like to come across.
In a meeting, how they’d like people to describe them. And I [00:13:00] asked them to pick one that’s more mental. And Aristotle talked about the mode of persuasion, logos appealing to the intellect, and one that’s more heart centered, more emotional, two, and through relationships, and we call that pathos. So one.
If you wanna do it with me, I can tell you what mine are. One pathos, one relationship one and one logical one. So for example someone might say they wanna be knowledgeable and approachable. They wanna be confident and expert. So what’s the goal of communication of executive communication coaching?
It’s helping people to. Live up to their style words. So let’s say, and it is actually true, one of my style words is approachable, but for whatever reason, I’m tired annoyed about something. I couldn’t find any ripe [00:14:00] bananas, whatever the heck it is.
I wanna hold myself accountable for not being as approachable as I’d like. It’s also. Knowing what are your particular goals? So when we meet an a leader, we’ll say, are you comfortable doing a communication 360? Either you or I can talk to a peer, a leader, or and someone who reports to you and Porsche asks them two questions.
I say, what are three qualities about Joanne that are very effective in her leadership communication, and what are three qualities you feel she could improve? And then what happens is we end up with a goal plan now that’s from my speech pathology background. Very structured. So clients who work with me do get a goal plan in writing, and we hold ourselves, accountable for those goals.
I’ll pick on, I’ll put on the word [00:15:00] executive. I suppose you could substitute leader, and I do use the word leader a lot. So it’s someone who actually has a role of leader or aspiring leaders because everyone could use this toolkit. When I say toolkits, I mean it literally that I’ve come up with for presentations, 26 tools, we call the presence 26 toolkit.
So today I worked with a woman from a big company called Iron Mountain. They’re a billion dollar company who stores stuff.
Porschia: Yes, I’ve heard of that. There’s
Laurie: some big storage. That must be pretty big storage. That, that, that’s not a little storage shed. So the tools she worked on were a four step process for controlling her slides.
That’s. And we all know we are so sick [00:16:00] of slides being ineffective and wordy and all that. And she’s also working on analyzing her listener so that she prioritizes what the leader she’s go, she. She prioritizes what the leader she’ll be speaking to cares about. And I want your listeners to see it a little bit like a funnel when you’re planning an executive presentation into the funnel goes what you care about, what topics are important to you, and what the leader or person you’re talking to cares about and out of the funnel.
Comes the topics you can possibly cover in the time you have time’s very important. So devoting the most time to the most important things is important. So what we found, and actually I just worked with her today, what we found is she had a lot of topics she was gonna cover [00:17:00] that weren’t that relevant to this leader she was talking to.
Remember the motto from the Civil Rights Movement? Keep your eyes on the Prize. I am so often using that with my clients. The prize is appealing to this leader, influencing this leader. It’s not talking about 12 other things that she doesn’t care about.
Porschia: Yes, and yes. You said so many great things.
Laurie. I don’t know if you saw me, but I was taking notes. I loved what you said about picking your style words. I think that’s so important. And then how one was more mental yes or logical, and one was more centered and relationship focused. And then finally your big point about.
Discussing what’s important to you, and then also what’s important to the person that you’re talking to. And I’d love your thoughts on this because I’ve told many leaders this when they’ve told me, oh, I wrote an email [00:18:00] about that, or I had a whole meeting about X, Y, and Z, and no one remembered or no one did act.
You know what they wanted them to do. Yeah.
Laurie: Yeah.
Porschia: I’ve tended to find that those leaders were jam packing so much stuff, too much in the meeting or in the email. And I’ve told people you need to boil it down to three or four bullet points, main ideas that you want people to get from that meeting. Especially if they’re your direct reports that you want them to get from that meeting.
Or that email because. Most people can’t even just really mentally keep up with, your list of 12 things that you wanted to talk about. And that were probably just important to that person. Not necessarily important to who they were talking to your bigger point, but that’s just some feedback that I’ve given to quite a few executives.
I’d love your thoughts on that because I think it weave in with what you were saying.
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Laurie: I love what you’re saying and I have something called Speech Gems little mottos I’ve developed over the years. So here’s one you’re gonna I’d rather have you do five points well than 50 in a frenzy.
And here’s a word I think listeners will like. The word pace paces, the amount of thoughts or ideas you produce in a certain amount of time. It’s different than speed. Speed is. The number of words you produce paces the number of thoughts. So if I am in advanced chemistry and I’ve never had a chemistry class, this actually happened to me in high school, that’s why it’s top of [00:21:00] mind.
I will not know what the heck is going on. I actually cried to my mom, please get me out of that class. I don’t know why I am in there. So as soon as they dropped me down to regular chemistry, not advanced, I could keep up. It wasn’t great, but I could keep up. So we’ve all had that examples when there’s just too much coming at us, it’s too fast paced.
So you are absolutely right. And another thing I heard you say. Absolutely. There’s been a fair amount of research on how many points people love and they do love. Three, I cheat a lot. I have the four this and the four that, but Uhhuh,
Porschia: the
Laurie: rule of three. People love it and I teach people to actually use what’s called digital enumeration or your fingers.
So there’s three points to make. You have to have it near your mouth because it’s over here. You’re asking people to go to too many directions. So three points. First, second, third, and it’s not that easy ’cause I’m like holding down my s little [00:22:00] finger.
Porschia: Love it. Love it. Rule of three. The rule of three.
I love also the, rather the person do five points well than 50 in a frenzy. Yes and yes to all of that. Lori, I think we’ve started touching on some of this, but I still wanna ask you about it. Earlier you mentioned a concern could be around clarity and just being effective. But I wanna know from your perspective, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve seen executives and professionals have?
With executive communication,
Laurie: one I’m seeing a lot lately. In order to be an effective presenter, you need to be able to think mind over mouth, and I’m gonna insert something in there. Mind, paper, mouth. Now, it doesn’t have to be paper, it could be your device.
But the way most adults. Are able to think most clearly about what they wanna say is by having an idea, putting it [00:23:00] into a few words or bullets, and then speaking at the meeting.
And even at the meeting. So Porsche’s talking about this or that, and I’m saying, oh, and I’m saying I have my bullets, the. Time devoted to preparation has so decreased because, and I know you’ve seen this I’m sure, meeting after meeting people seem to not have control of their schedules. And so if there’s any way listeners can sneak in five minutes, 10 minutes to think about what’s going to come up, what might I add to this meeting coming up, whether there’s an agenda or not.
Thinking in advance of what you might wanna say, which leads us to, there’s a difference between knowing things and speaking about things, and so coaches do cringe a little bit when we hear people say, oh, I know that topic [00:24:00] well, but we’re saying to ourselves, yeah, but that doesn’t mean you can speak well about it.
Oh, I’m getting, okay. I am getting get too excited, Porsche. I’m getting too excited. ’cause I wanna say one more thing and then react, which is if you see someone who’s a great speaker at a town hall or whatever, and they don’t seem to be using notes, nothing, they’re just quote unquote winging it. I guarantee you that they’ve internalized.
Either a template or maybe even given that talk or a similar talk many times.
Porschia: Yeah, that’s a great point. That’s a great point. And I. I wanna circle back to what you said, because I hear this a lot as a coach, what you said when people say, oh, I know that, or I’ve heard that before. And I think we live in a time where there’s so much content out there.
There’s so many podcast episodes and videos and blog posts. If you’re a reader [00:25:00] that it’s easy for people to think, oh, I’ve heard that. I know that, but. This is to a point that you made earlier. Something I ask people is, but are you getting the results that you want from that in your life today? So it’s one thing to mentally understand something a concept, but it’s another thing to get that result. And I heard you mention, that you’re in the results business earlier. Yeah. And I think that goes to your point.
Laurie: And also I have a lot of respect for self-awareness, you can’t know everything I know.
I don’t know everything about myself. It took me, I remember early in my career, my mentor said, did you know when you listen to someone in a group, you put your chin up as almost as I’m catching what they’re saying. And he said, that looks standoffish. I had no idea I was doing that. And that’s just a simple example.
So I think that’s [00:26:00] one of the benefit of a communication coach is sometimes she will see things you’re not. Seeing and even better have the techniques to be helpful.
Porschia: Agreed. Agreed. I know the executive coaches on our team see that a lot in interview coaching too, right? Those little habits that we have that we don’t even know we have that can come across.
And to your point, a presentation or an interview that we’re not even aware of. So Lori. Yes. What would you say are some tips or suggestions that you’d give someone who wants to improve their executive communication? Yeah, I thought
Laurie: a good way to frame it might be, what are some of the secrets, like the behind the scenes things that, that really matter that people wanna pay attention to.
So one is how fluent are you? Do you have a smooth flow of words? And we do differ. I don’t wanna say genetically, but [00:27:00] we do di differ naturally. Some people are just pretty smooth with words and other, there’s a lot of choppiness, or most of us get better with fluency or the smooth flow of words By planning, by my little mantra, mind, paper, mouth and practicing my very dedicated clients.
I give them a topic like what’s the benefit of exercise, and I give them a template of how to answer it, and they have to answer in one minute, then 45 seconds, then 30 seconds, and then 15 seconds. Of course, it’s fun to use a timer to be able to control. Your organization and the length of what you say which, getting back to being concise, that’s a big problem.
I was talking to someone yesterday. Hey. He just had, we call it logo ria. I’m not gonna get graphic here. Something [00:28:00] of the mouth logo. It means an excess outpouring of words. But the sweet thing about him though was he said, I know I sometimes talk too much now. I didn’t know him well enough and I wasn’t his coach, so I didn’t agree with him.
But of course I was agreeing with him.
Yeah, so fluency, oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, recap it for us. The fluency. Fluency. Then the second one is this. This will sound sarcastic, but I’m not being sarcastic. Are you Interesting? Are you interesting? And there’s two ways to be interesting. One is your content and one of the tools in the presence 26 toolkit is something I call the four Es.
For being extraordinary. I’ll tell you two of them. Using examples and using experiences or stories. And of course Porsche, we’ve all corporate storytelling. The buzz words in the past few years. So yet look, just to reassure everyone, you don’t have to be a [00:29:00] great storyteller, but tell little case studies, little stories.
That illustrate your business point and you will be more memorable. Okay. Then there’s the oral part of it. There’s a tool called vocal variety. So right now I’m not using any vocal variety. They don’t call it a boardroom for nothing. That’s another one of my little quotes. So what’s vocal variety? One word in every phrase should jump out.
So one word in every phrase should jump out. So we’re talking about in English. There’s a way of showing dynamism, and you’ve got it inside your vocal chords, and it’s called vocal variety. You on the word, you’re emphasizing your pitch and your volume raise and females are a bit better than males at this.
I’ve had a heck of a lot of clients in the sciences technology who [00:30:00] are just dull. Again, they don’t call it a boardroom for nothing. So this is one of the key skills to work on. So those two secrets fluency and are you interesting? Are you fluent? Are you interesting? Those are two. I can start with.
Porschia: I love it and you’re obviously a wealth of knowledge, Lori, that people should definitely, learn more from you. I wanna think about this also from the organizational perspective. So we work with some companies directly as well, which I know you do too. Yeah. From the company’s perspective, how do you think that companies can address executive communication within their organizations?
Laurie: I do believe it’s great when there are communication norms. That both leadership and everybody contributes to. What are some [00:31:00] guidelines for being inclusive in a meeting? If you have certain people who lead meetings, have they been trained? Are they skilled in facilitation? And I love the word facilitation.
It means make easy in French il, facilitate. Make participating easy. And when you drill down, what we’re trying to do is normalize, have it be democratic, everyone participates. So we’re trying to get the people who talk too much to talk less, and the people who just love not talking at all, but we know they’re smart and have things to contribute to talk more.
And I find it’s very difficult. So I think, starting with creating a positive communication culture, starting with how, let’s start with how meetings are run. Then I would go into how people present. And when we say presentation Porsche, it could be to one person or to a [00:32:00] hundred every time you open your mouth, gulp, it’s a presentation in the hallway.
Presentation I. Hate to say it folks. Sounds like the people who work at Disney. You’re on. You’re on. Yep.
Porschia: I. Love what you said. I didn’t know facilitate was rooted. I’m not, I don’t speak French, so I didn’t know that the route was easy. But yes, the term facilitation does really have you think about getting other people involved.
To your point. And I have a master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology, and we talked a lot about norms cultural norms and things like that. And yeah, to your point about, establishing that positive communication culture, that’s something that I think companies need to be intentional about because yes, to the whole point of culture.
If you think there [00:33:00] isn’t one, there is one. So if you’re not working on one, then something else is under the surface that is the norm, right?
Laurie: And then a couple of other things that occurred to me especially if you are known for your leadership or you are a leader in a role, is you are a role model for good or for bad.
So let’s make it for good. Are you effective much of the time? And if you’re not, you own up.
Porschia: Yeah. All great points. All great points. So Lori, tell us more about Partners in Communication Inc.
Laurie: Sure. I love what I do. I love customizing programs for individuals. I. And groups. I wanna tell you about my legacy project ’cause I’m in the later stages of my career and love keeping my millennial coaches busy.
While I sit back. No, I’m only kidding. But I am zooming away, I’ll tell you that much. Much less in [00:34:00] person, much more on zoom just ’cause post covid. That seems to be what happened. What about you? Are you doing a lot in person?
Porschia: Yeah, a lot of companies prefer virtual nowadays. I think it’s definitely flipped.
- And then of course the companies that have remote teams in different locations, it’s just easier for everyone. Yeah.
Laurie: It, yeah. Otherwise it’s just a huge challenge expense wise and travel wise. Yeah, absolutely. So my legacy project is called Train the Presentation Coach Certificate Program. It’s a program designed for people who are already coaches or communications professionals, learning and development are.
Or training professionals who love communication and want to learn this presence 26 toolkit in order to help others in their organization. I am not trying to replace my team ’cause we all have advanced degrees, but I am very much wanting to spread good practices and presentations around. [00:35:00] It’s a 20 hour program, which has three components, learning the toolkit, learning, communication, coaching skills.
And having real clients. Yeah. And noting their results.
Porschia: Yeah. And I think it’s powerful to have an internal coach especially at some of these organizations that to your point, are really huge. And they can keep your team busy, but there’s also great to have that internal champion that can keep.
The work going on throughout and over time, so that’s great. We will be providing a link to your website and your other social channels in our show notes so people can find you online. But what is the best way for someone to get in touch with you, Laurie?
Laurie: I would say email or text. I actually like communicating with clients by text, so feel free to put my cell number.
As well in the show notes and I can [00:36:00] make sure that you have that. So email or text, it’s lori at partners in communication inc.com. My daughter said it’s the longest email she’s ever heard,
Porschia: but yeah. We will put that in the show notes. Now Lori, I wanna ask you our last question that we ask all of our guests.
Sure. How do you think executives or professionals can get a positive edge in their career?
Laurie: Okay. I’m going to say early on, and I’ve worked with a lot of young folks who do this, lawyers, architects, accountants, early on, learn the tools that you need in order to be influential, persuasive, and confident in your communication. And then you will, if you speak for success, you are more likely to succeed.
And there’s a lot of research to bear that out.
Porschia: I love it. Influential, persuasive, and confident. Lori, you have shared [00:37:00] a lot of wisdom with us today, and I’m sure that our listeners can use it to be more confident with their communication. We appreciate you being with us.
Laurie: My pleasure. It was really fun and engaging.
I really appreciate it. Porsche.
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Can use in your own career. If you enjoyed hanging out with us, please rate, subscribe, and share this podcast. Until next time, here’s to your [00:38:00] success.
