Episode 63: How to Dress Like A Leader to Enhance Your Executive Presence
Most professionals never think about how their clothes are already talking for them before a meeting starts. Karin Reed sits down with wardrobe stylist and certified color analyst Claire Roberts to fix that blind spot. What you wear shapes your executive presence before you say a single word, and Claire, owner of Claire Roberts Style, has spent nearly two decades helping people get that right.
Episode 62: Presenting to Senior Leaders: How to Cut Someone Off Without Being Rude
Presenting to senior leaders gets messy fast when someone hijacks your time with a tangent that pulls the room away from what you came to say. You need a way to reclaim control without seeming rude, and this episode delivers exactly that.
Episode 61: Executive Presence: Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough to Get You Promoted
You work hard, deliver results, and still get overlooked. This episode shows you how to build executive presence without changing who you are or pretending to be the loudest voice in the room. On Speaker Dynamics – Own The Room, host Karin Reed sits down with Lorraine K. Lee, keynote speaker and bestselling author of Unforgettable Presence, to unpack why professional presence grows through small daily moments rather than big stage appearances.
Episode 60: What Good Communication Training Looks Like and What to Avoid
The wrong communication training can do more damage than no training at all.
Some coaches yell. Some interrupt every stumble. One even fired a water gun at clients for using filler words. On this episode of Speaker Dynamics: Own The Room – Speaker Tip Spotlight, host Karin Reed makes the case for a different philosophy of communication training, one built on respect for the courage it takes to work on your own voice. Standing up to present already ranks among the most stressful moments in professional life. The person guiding your growth should never add to that fear. Real progress happens when people feel safe enough to be vulnerable, and any trainer who tears your people down is wasting your investment.
Episode 59: Crisis Communication and Executive Presence: A PR Strategist’s Honest Guide for Leaders
When a crisis hits, most leaders panic or pretend nothing is wrong. Both moves backfire.
Crisis communication is one of the most misunderstood skills in leadership. PR strategist Lee Caraher has spent more than twenty years watching companies make the same avoidable mistakes. On this episode of Speaker Dynamics, host Karin Reed sits down with Lee, CEO of Double Forte and a self-described professional straight talker, for an honest look at what leading through a crisis demands.
Episode 58: Speaker Tip Spotlight: Three Teleprompter Tips That Make You Sound Natural on Camera
Most people sound like a completely different person the moment a teleprompter turns on. It does not have to be that way.
As an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and communication expert, Karin Reed knows why even confident leaders can suddenly feel stiff, scripted, and disconnected on camera. In this episode of Speaker Dynamics: Own The Room – Speaker Tip Spotlight, Karin shares her top teleprompter tips for anyone who wants to show up on camera with the same ease they bring to a live conversation.
Episode 57: Generational Differences in Communication: How Each Generation Defines Good Communication
What happens when communication coaches from different generations sit down and ask who actually gets to define what great communication looks like?
Host Karin Reed tackles generational differences in communication head-on in this episode of Speaker Dynamics Own The Room, joined by mother-daughter coaching duo Laurie Schloff, President of Partners in Communication, Inc., and Hava Horowitz, Senior Coaching Partner. Between them, they bring four decades of experience, two distinct methodologies, and perspectives that don’t always agree.
Episode 56: Tip Spotlight: The 3 Cs of Leadership Communication That Move Any Audience
The most powerful leadership communication doesn’t come from a script. It comes from a speaker who means every word.
On Speaker Dynamics Own The Room – Speaker Tip Spotlight, host Karin Reed shares something that doesn’t happen often in her line of work. She cried backstage at a conference. Not because something went wrong, but because a speaker she had spent months coaching delivered a keynote so good it stopped her cold. She’d heard it dozens of times in rehearsal. She knew exactly what was coming. And it still got her.
Episode 55: The Meeting Doctor and the On-Camera Coach: AI Notetakers and Engagement in Virtual and Hybrid Meetings
AI can summarize your meeting, but it cannot replace the judgment, presence, or leadership communication that actually moves people. On this episode of Speaker Dynamics – Own the Room, Karin Reed sits down with her longtime co-author and collaborator Dr. Joe Allen, known as “The Meeting Doctor” and Director of the Center for Meeting Effectiveness, for a conversation about where meetings, AI, and virtual communication skills are all colliding right now. The two have written three books together on virtual and hybrid meetings, and this episode feels like exactly what it is, two respected experts thinking honestly about a landscape that is changing faster than the research can follow.
Episode 54: Speaking with Confidence on Stage
Even experienced speakers can lose their footing when they stop trusting the way they communicate best. In this Speaker Tip Spotlight episode of Speaker Dynamics – Own the Room, Karin Reed pulls back the curtain on a keynote that tested her own speaking with confidence and offers a useful reminder for anyone who wants to show up with more authority in high-stakes moments. She shares what happens when preparation is solid but a last-minute shift throws off your rhythm, and why the real risk is often abandoning the approach that already works for you. That insight gives this conversation real value for leaders, founders, and experts who need effective presentations that feel clear, steady, and real.