Communicate with Mastery provides leaders at all levels of experience and confidence the tools they need to improve their speaking and writing.Nancy DuarteCEO, Duarte Inc.
Author, Slide:ology, Resonate, and Illuminate
Speak with conviction and write for impact
Communicate with Mastery gives readers a rich treasure trove of frameworks and tools for leadership communication as developed and taught over the past decade at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Designed for the business leader on the go, it provides you quick access to helpful approaches to vexing communication problems leaders face today in speaking and writing to various audiences.
Every time you write or speak, you need to make your words count. This book shows you how.
Learn how to get the results you desire as a leader and communicator including
- Speak with conviction and write for impact
- Tailor your communication to any goal, setting, or audience
- Scale your leadership through effective coaching
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The authors
JD
Schramm
A passionate coach and gifted communicator in his own right, JD Schramm treasures the opportunity to bring out the best in those he teaches, advises, or inspires through this speaking, coaching, and teaching. Thousands of students at Stanford, Columbia, NYU, USC, and UC-Davis have benefitted from his hallmark style of teaching and rigorous feedback to help them speak with conviction and write for impact.
Beyond the classroom JD works with individuals, teams, and entire organizations to communicate with greater Mastery. A sought-out speaker and trainer, he’s worked with firms and groups including the Aspen Institute, Qualtrics, YPO, Breakline, Jane Street Financial, GenenTech, Ciena, AQR Capital, Adams Street Partners, Schmidt Science Fellows, NASA, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Google. JD invests the same commitment to helping a client prepare for Davos or TED that he does to secure their next round of funding or win a pitch competition.
JD Schramm has spoken at TED and TEDx events and has coached scores of others to do the same. His proteges have spoken at Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and even before congressional hearings. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, and Harvard Business Review.
AN active member of the LGBTQ community, JD’s particularly focused his energy on inclusion efforts within higher education and communities of faith. He’s an advocate for suicide prevention, foster care services, and HIV/AIDS research. Schramm holds his Ed.D. in higher education leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and his BFA in theater from Emporia State University in Kansas. He and his husband, Rev. Ken Daigle, make their home in San Francisco raising three very active children.
Kara
Levy
An executive communication and leadership coach based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She began her coaching career at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was an early member of the Mastery in Communication Initiative and spent nearly a decade in a variety of coaching roles, including the LOWKeynotes and India Innovation Growth programs. Since then, Kara’s coaching and trainings have offered thousands of leaders the tools to speak more confidently off the cuff; to become faster and better writers, more competent storytellers, and more empathetic and efficient problem-solvers; and to develop executive presence that feels authentic to them. Her collaborations in Silicon Valley range from household names like Facebook and Salesforce to unique startups just beginning to craft their company cultures.
Kara holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and lives in San Francisco with her daughter.
