Finding your authentic leadership voice: in person and online

Leaders can’t hide behind institutional roles any more. Your message only has power if the people it reaches can see and hear the genuine person behind it. But authenticity isn’t always easy to attain — especially in an era where retweets and Likes are easier to count than minds changed. Rob shows you how leaders can avoid the temptation of pandering, and speak with the kind of conviction and honesty that reaps long-run personal and professional rewards.

Alignment: Communicating to lead

Managers, CEOs and political and community leaders alike have a dilemma: how to lead an emerging generation with no apparent interest in being led? The answer lies not in commanding compliance, but inspiring alignment based on shared values and purpose. See how alignment means that what organizations lose in control, they can more than make up for in the passion and loyalty of employees, supporters and customers

Talk like a human

We have an incredible gift for making an instant connection with each other: conversation. It can earn trust and deepen relationships. So why do so many people turn into soulless robots the moment they have to communicate to the world? Rob shows you where so many communicators and leaders go wrong… and how to keep talking like a human.

Who killed social media? (And how can we bring it back to life?)

Remember when the social web first launched? That hierarchy-flattening, silo-busting revolution of authentic expression, creation and connection was going to transform the world. But instead of a revolution, we got a more efficient way to shop — and all those “authentic” relationships are being strip-mined for marketing data and monetization. Rarely has such enormous promise been betrayed so thoroughly… but Rob argues it isn’t too late. We can still reclaim an open web with room for both human connection and honest commerce.

Oversharing: from TMI to OMG

In the era of tweeting what you just ate and taking selfies at funerals, is there such a thing as TMI? Rob delivers a ringing defence of conscientious oversharing… and he may just convince you to forgive that next here’s-what-I’m-having-for-lunch photo.