Step into Your Moxie® Speak Up and Influence

Dr. Sweta is a Vocal Empowerment Facilitator

Step into Your Moxie® Vocal Empowerment experiences are unique because:

• They address the interrelated skills connected to vocal empowerment. While many communication development programs look at confidence, presence, and what to say, Step into Your Moxie® experiences support participants to create an empowering inner voice, get comfortable with uncomfortable physiological sensations that come up when speaking/speaking up, practice sculpting and delivering high-impact messaging, develop authentic presence, and use communication that moves people to take action.

• They integrate self-empowerment with social justice (As a facilitator, I support each participant to find and master using their voice and help them explore the ideological, institutional, and interpersonal impediments to speaking up.)

• They give participants the opportunity to use improv, role play, and other experiential activities to practice and solidify their communication skills. This is not a program where people are simply told how to speak/speak up. Rather, they are up on their feet developing the mindset, behaviors, and habits to speak up and influence consistently.

• They are trauma-sensitive (Little “t” and big “T” traumas shape people’s relationship to their voice and comfort/discomfort with speaking up. As a facilitator, I am sensitive to how trauma can show up for people and help participants identify if there is the psychological safety needed to speak up.

• They center and elevate people with marginalized identities – and support participants to do the same.

what to expect:

In Step into Your Moxie® Speak Up and Influence, participants will strengthen their inner and outer voice so that they can speak up for themselves and the ideas and issues that matter most. Through a mix of coaching, training, role play, and small and full group conversation, participants will develop the mindset, skill set, and habits to boost their communication confidence so they can speak with power and impact and move people to take action whenever they speak.

Top Takeaways:

  • Reframe diminishing self-talk so that it supports rather than undermines communication confidence

  • Harness a “Yes And” attitude and play nicely with feelings that come up when presenting ideas and navigating uncomfortable situations

  • Minimize vocalized thinking and amplify speaking presence to increase credibility, likability, and trust

  • Call people to take action on ideas in low and high stakes speaking situations (i.e., team meetings, project pitches, or presentations)

  • Address common pain points and personal motivators that get in the way of people taking action

  • Tell stories that create connection, discovery, and buy-in for those listening

  • Articulate their value and go after visibility opportunities that position them/your company as thought leaders

  • Identify and begin to address potential team/company barriers to communication success

  • Set and rearticulate boundaries to strengthen individual and team wellbeing

  • Possess the words to take responsibility for mistakes and repair harm when it’s caused

  • Live and lead into a legacy that aligns with their values

I know why I struggle to communicate in certain areas of my life and work, but we no longer focus on the struggle, we focus on the practice—getting the thoughts (whatever they are) out of our heads and speaking them out loud to ourselves and to those who need to hear them.

— Christine H.

““I had my 1:1 meeting with my manager today and I shared with her my excitement for putting together a pilot training for our client group and one of the smaller teams.

My manager was blown away with all the data I had found to back up my ideas. So much so that she decided to bump up our team brainstorming meeting to some time tomorrow so that I can share what I found with my other colleague on our HR team.

My manager also told me she’s relieved to hear that I am so passionate about training and want to take the lead on it because I will be able to spread that energy and motivation to our client groups to make the trainings more effective.  I felt really good leaving that meeting.

Thank you for encouraging me to step into my brilliance and assert my confidence in that space!”

  • HR Employee at Stanley Black and Decker