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Leadership Communication in Action | Women Leaders Speaking Up in Meetings, Getting Women Promoted to Leadership
Leadership Communication in Action | Women Leaders Speaking Up in Meetings, Getting Women Promoted to Leadership
Leadership Communication in Action is a weekly podcast for high-performing women who want to close the leadership communication gap. Host Liz Boswell, a leadership communication coach, provides practical skills for executive presence and career advancement. Each episode offers actionable guidance in under 20 minutes, focusing on how to be seen as credible and ready for senior leadership. The podcast addresses common challenges like speaking up in meetings and overcoming self-doubt.
Episodes
20 Years of Public Speaking Anxiety Held Her Back from Getting Promoted to Senior Leadership
Executive Presence can be the difference between being ready for senior leadership and being seen as ready for it.Rachel had the experience, knowledge and trust of the people around her. She had trained others, supported colleagues into bigger roles and could do the job standing on her head. Yet for 20 years, public speaking anxiety and the thought of a promotion interview kept her saying no.Her s
How to Hold The Room in Senior Leadership Meetings | Get People to Listen When You Speak Up
Speaking Up in senior leadership meetings can feel harder the moment attention starts to drift. Out comes a mobile phone, someone looks at another screen, and suddenly you’re questioning whether you’ve lost the room - even when people may still be listening.Holding attention isn’t about controlling everyone around the table. It’s about creating clarity, staying connected to your message, and givin
Executive Leadership Transition: Find Your Bearings When You’re New to the C-Suite
Executive Leadership Transitions can feel strangely unsettling. You’ve earned the senior role, but the conversations are less straightforward, decisions carry more weight and there is no obvious person to tell you whether you’re getting it right.In this episode, Liz Boswell explores why stepping into executive leadership can knock the confidence of even the most capable women. The problem may not
Leadership Communication: How to Present a Recommendation to the Board Without Drowning It in Detail
Leadership communication gets harder when you know your subject so well that everything feels important. You start explaining, add more context, throw in another example and suddenly you’re rambling without actually getting your point across.At senior level, it’s not about proving how much you know. It’s about making it easy for people to understand what matters. Strong executive communication mea
Executive Presence Tips | How Avoiding Presentations is Weakening Your Leadership Impact
Avoiding presentations might feel like a sensible way to manage public speaking anxiety, but it could quietly be limiting how others see your potential. Strong leadership communication isn’t about being the most polished person in the room. It’s about giving people the opportunity to experience your judgement, ideas and ability to lead when it matters.Ready to stop avoiding the presentation and st
Public Speaking Anxiety: Why Speaking Up in Leadership Meetings Feels So Scary | Keeping Calm When Presenting
What if the biggest barrier holding women leaders back from speaking up with confidence isn't a lack of ability at all? Public speaking anxiety begins with the negative thoughts running through your own mind, and that story can quietly undermime your leadership visibility, executive presence and opportunities for promotion.Rather than trying to eliminate nerves, this conversation offers a dif
Women Leaders: Is it Really Imposter Syndrome? | Transforming Self Doubt to Self Worth
Women leaders often believe that they have imposter syndrome but what if that label is stopping you from asking the question that matters most? Instead of assuming something is wrong with you, what if you asked, What's happened that's made you question yourself? This single question that I use in my leadership coaching often helps women change how they see themselves - it can completely
Communication Style | How can I be assertive without sounding bossy? | Assertiveness Tips
Have you ever been told you're "too bossy" or "too direct" and been left wondering what you're actually supposed to do with that feedback? For many women leaders, vague feedback about communication style can undermine confidence far more than they support growth. The problem isn't always the feedback itself, it's that opinions about communication style are o
Voice at Work | Reframing Self-Promotion for British Women Leaders
If the thought of blowing your own trumpet makes you cringe, this one is for you! Leadership Communication can feel deeply uncomfortable for British women who’ve been taught to stay humble, keep their heads down and avoid making a fuss. But staying quiet isn’t always humility. Sometimes, it becomes invisibility.Many women with strong technical expertise and years of experience still struggle with
Leadership Communication: If Speaking Up About Your Success Feels Awkward, Listen to This
Why do so many talented leaders find it easier to talk about their team’s success than their own? If the thought of sharing your achievements makes you uncomfortable, this conversation may explain why. Communication becomes challenging when you've been taught that being visible looks like bragging, even when your contribution deserves recognition.Many professionals, especially women leaders,
Executive Presence Tips | 3 Communication Mistakes that are Weakening Authority for Women Leaders
Executive presence isn't something you're born with. It's not about being the loudest person in the room, having the perfect personality, or pretending to be someone you're not.In this episode, Liz explores one of the most overlooked factors in career progression: your leadership communication.Drawing on her own experience, she shares how habits like over-explaining, softening
5 Reasons why speaking up in meetings is the secret to getting promoted
Most women assume promotions come from working harder, staying reliable, and quietly delivering results. But when it comes to senior leadership, speaking up in meetings is often the difference between being seen as dependable… and being seen as promotable.Because leadership is not built in silence.This conversation challenges the belief that confidence has to come before visibility. The women gett
Leadership Pressure: Speaking Up Without Taking Criticism Personally
If you’ve ever felt your judgement questioned at work, struggled to stay calm under pressure, or found yourself over-explaining decisions in senior conversations, this episode will resonate.As you move into more senior roles, leadership pressure changes. Visibility increases, expectations rise, and decisions carry more weight.In this episode, Liz Boswell explores why experienced professionals (esp
Decision Making for Women Leaders: The Power of the Pause
In this episode we explore the power of the pause and why it's a bold move for women in business.Pausing to think could be seen as procrastination by those around you, yet moving too quickly can sometimes lead to mistakes and at senior level that can damage your reputation.It's time to challenge the belief that pausing is procrastination, and show how taking time to think can improve dec
Why women leaders still struggle with self-doubt (even when they “should know better")
If that voice inside your head gets louder as responsibility increases, this episode is for you.In this episode, Liz explains why the inner critic often gets louder not quieter as you progress as a leader.Drawing on leadership experience and insights from neuroscience, she reframes the inner critic as a stress response, not the truth.In this episode, you’ll learn:Why senior leaders still struggle
How Speaking Up about Workload Builds Influence for Women Leaders
Many high-performing professional women are dealing with leadership pressure every day because they avoid speaking up about workload. In this episode, Liz Boswell explores how strategic delegation is a leadership communication skill that protects both your executive presence and your boundaries. Discover why the real barrier to delegation isn't capability, it's protection - and how speak
Setting Boundaries with Confidence at Work to Avoid Burnout
Protecting your boundaries doesn’t mean caring less, it means leading more strategically.In this episode of Making Bold Moves, Liz Boswell explores Bold Move 4: Protect Your Boundaries a practical conversation for senior leaders who feel constantly needed, pulled into last-minute meetings, and quietly carrying more than they should.We explore why boundary problems happen, how unspoken expectations
Leadership Influence: Why Your Reputation Matters More Than Your Track Record
Why does leadership get harder as you climb? Because after capability, influence becomes the currency that matters.In this episode, Liz Boswell reveals how senior female leaders build trust through everyday moments like the way you listen, pause, respond, and follow up—and why these small behaviors compound into reputation and real advancement. Perfect for women in leadership who are hitting their
Getting Women Promoted: Speaking Up to Ask for Pay Rise or Promotion Without Sounding Pushy | Executive Presence Tips
If asking for what you want feels uncomfortable or risky, this episode is for you.Many capable people hold back from asking for a pay rise or a promotion because they might look pushy or desperate.In this episode, Liz explores why holding back shows up as frustration, self-doubt, or disappointment later on. Using a real client example, she looks at what’s really happening when people hint instead
Speaking Up in Meetings | Getting Your Voice Heard as a Woman in Leadership
If you know what you want to say but hesitate to speak up, this episode is for you. Being heard in meetings isn’t about confidence or volume, it's about behaviour.In this episode, Liz explores why capable people hold back even when they have something valuable to contribute, and how that hesitation quietly affects visibility and authority over time.You’ll understand what gets in the way of us
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