For social innovators, developing your authentic voice and honing your executive presence are critical skills in communicating your experiences, skills, and values. During this 60 minute in-person experience, we will discuss tips, techniques, and hacks to become a better communicator at work. This workshop covers the verbal, vocal and visual skills it takes to be a confident, commanding, and compelling communicator. We will break out each one of these skills into tangible principles and learn through examples and exercises. Getting a taste for storytelling, participants will take part in small group activities that put their communication skills to work. You will leave the session empowered to approach meetings, presentations, and pitches with confidence.

Throughout this workshop, Lily Lapenna (Founder of MyBnk and GLEOW Group) will draw on her own experience launching and building MyBnk, the U.K.’s leading financial education provider, as well as her experience coaching hundreds of executives as CEO of GLEOW Group.

About the Facilitator: 

Lily Lapenna is a systems change innovator who founded MyBnk, the U.K.’s leading financial education provider. Lily and the MyBnk team created high impact financial education programs that reached over 300,000 young people in schools, prisons, youth groups, homeless communities and supported housing environments. They successfully lobbied the government to bring financial education into the school curriculum which benefits six million young people to learn about money every year. Lily also advised the UK government on a ten-year financial inclusion strategy for the nation covering all age groups. The MyBnk program has been replicated in countries across the world from Italy to Turkey. In 2017, Queen Elizabeth II honored Lily with an MBE in recognition of her work in social entrepreneurship. The World Economic Forum appointed her as a Young Global Leader recognizing her system change leadership skills. Ashoka and Aspen made her a fellow in acknowledgment of her global social impact. Lily is the CEO of Gleow Group, where she works in leadership advisory and executive coaching for government, multinationals, and start-ups. She is a guest lecturer in Business and Social Impact and an Industry Adviser at SAID Business School, University of Oxford, UK.