Speaking Arts and

Dr. Laura Penn is an expert in leadership communication and the speaking arts. As the Founder of The Leadership Speaking School based in Switzerland, across the globe, she transforms leaders and teams from the world’s most well-known companies, business schools and organizations into authentic communicators of the digital age.

Her clients include the World Economic Forum, International Olympic Committee, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), IMD Business School, Ebay, Roche, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), Nespresso, Salesforce, Logitech, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), EHL Hospitality Business School and many more.

Since 2010, Dr. Penn has delivered hundreds of training sessions and keynote speeches around the world, influencing her audiences of tens of thousands, to build better relationships, become better leaders and better their bottom-lines through effective leadership communication. With her first career as a conservation biologist, she is also a distinguished voice in the sustainability sector, empowering her audiences to communicate sustainability with gravitas.

As an international keynote speaker, she ignites her audiences to lead with purpose by thinking differently about how they communicate with their peers, teams and customers.  Her delivery is dynamic and highly interactive and she shares actionable insights and practical tools which can be put to use straight away.

As a master teacher, Dr. Penn trains visionary leaders and high-performing teams from diverse industries in the art of leadership speaking. She teaches them how to create meaningful content through strategic storytelling for all of their business communication needs and supports them to deliver it with impact, authenticity and human connection.

Dr. Penn is an award-winning speaker, author of four books, a four-time TEDx speaker (with over 259K combined views), an author at UN Today, the official magazine of the United Nations and the host of the Leadership Speaking Radio podcast.