Speakeasy Inc.

Speakeasy Inc. Great journeys require great guides. You need to work with someone who will lead you where you want to go and inspire you to go even further.

Speakeasy provides personal growth, communication development and communication consulting services to some of the most influential business leaders in the world. When you journey to become a great communicator, you need to explore with someone who understands the commitment, knows the course, and sees the possibilities. That's the kind of guide you'll find at Speakeasy. As full-time members of ou

r staff, our instructors and consultants are dedicated to teaching, learning, and doing. You'll benefit from their expertise and personal coaching. And you'll benefit from the insight they've gained as they continually advance through new thresholds on their own communication journeys. Get to know the people who can help you become a more powerful communicator ...

Emilie Zamponi leads a region that spans Southern Europe and Latin America.After participating in Speakeasy twice, she d...
06/18/2026

Emilie Zamponi leads a region that spans Southern Europe and Latin America.

After participating in Speakeasy twice, she described the experience in one word: “Liberating.”
What changed was not only how she speaks. It was how she listens, pauses and stays present in the moment.

“It made me calmer, more present and helped my confidence when communicating,” Emilie shared. “I now practice pausing instead of rushing to fill silence.”

Thank you, Emilie, for sharing your experience with Speakeasy.

English is often the shared language of global business. That doesn’t mean the room is working from the same understandi...
06/16/2026

English is often the shared language of global business. That doesn’t mean the room is working from the same understanding.

For native English speakers, idioms, humor, speed and sentence structure can feel natural. For colleagues working in English as a second language, those same choices can add effort to an already demanding conversation.

The goal isn’t to oversimplify the message. It’s to make the message easier to understand so more people can participate fully.

In this article, Daniel Frysh and Jorge Barria discuss what leaders miss when they assume shared English means shared understanding.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/bPvm50Zc2xw

Clarity isn’t about making everyone sound the same.In global companies, people bring different accents, languages and co...
06/11/2026

Clarity isn’t about making everyone sound the same.

In global companies, people bring different accents, languages and communication patterns into the room. The goal isn’t to erase those differences. It’s to help people communicate in a way others can follow without losing the voice and identity they bring with them.

In his latest piece for Speakeasy, Jorge Barria writes about the difference between accent and clarity, and why both speakers and listeners have work to do.

Read Jorge’s article: https://ow.ly/FeZK50Z9S9u

Cross-cultural communication is often treated as a culture issue. For global companies, it’s also an ex*****on issue.Whe...
06/09/2026

Cross-cultural communication is often treated as a culture issue. For global companies, it’s also an ex*****on issue.

When messages don’t translate well, teams lose time. Decisions take longer. Concerns stay hidden. People nod in the meeting and clarify later, when the project is already moving in different directions.

The breakdown often happens in three places: style and delivery, content and listening.
That’s where leaders have real choices. They can adjust pace and presence. They can structure the message for the audience in front of them. They can listen for hesitation, confusion and what is not being said directly.

Global communication doesn’t require everyone to sound the same. It requires leaders to make understanding easier.

06/04/2026

If your global team leaves the same meeting with different understandings of what happens next, that isn’t a meeting problem. It’s a communication problem.

Language is part of it, but not all of it. Pace, structure, hierarchy, directness, idioms and listening all shape whether the message is understood as intended.

For leaders, the risk is making decisions based on assumed alignment.

Global teams need communication that translates: clear content, delivery that people can follow and listening that catches what may not be said directly.

06/01/2026

AI can give leaders a useful starting point.

But it's still pulling from many sources, patterns and probabilities. That means the output needs to be reviewed with the judgment of someone who knows the audience, the context and the stakes.

Is it accurate?

Is it useful?

Will it land the way it needs to land?

That is where leadership judgment matters.

05/29/2026

People can usually tell when a message does not sound like the person behind it.

That matters for leaders.

AI can help draft, organize and refine communication. But when the message is personal, employees and clients still need to feel the leader’s judgment, attention and ownership in it.

In this short clip, Sandra Ashe, Speakeasy Distinguished Faculty, explains why communication that sounds polished but detached can miss the trust it is meant to build.

05/28/2026

Some employees already have the insight, judgment and drive.

What they need is the communication to help others see it.

Manish Shrivastava, CMO of PulteGroup, shares why he invests in communication development for his team.

His perspective is a reminder that communication is not a “nice to have” for high-potential employees. It shapes whether their ideas are heard, whether others follow their thinking and whether their impact is fully recognized across the organization.

One risk with AI is that it can make communication look finished before the leader has really done the work.The sentence...
05/26/2026

One risk with AI is that it can make communication look finished before the leader has really done the work.

The sentences are clean. The structure is there. But that's not always enough in a high-stakes moment. People are listening for judgment, clarity and whether the person speaking understands the room they are in.

That's where communication development matters. In Speakeasy programs, participants practice the choices that shape how they are experienced by others: voice, pace, presence, audience awareness and clarity under pressure.

The goal is not to sound polished or performative. It’s to become more aware of the choices that affect trust, credibility and whether people know what to do next.

We can help. Learn more: https://www.speakeasyinc.com/programs/in-person/

05/20/2026

A lot of the AI conversation is about speed.

How fast it can draft.
How much time it can save.
How much easier it can make the blank page.

Those are real benefits.

But for leaders, the harder question is what should still come from you.

In this conversation, members of Speakeasy’s faculty talk about where AI can be useful in communication and where leaders still need to bring their own judgment, presence and responsibility.

Because a message can be well written and still not build real human connection.

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