Speakership in the Time of Change
How do you find the right words when you’re face-to-face with the unexpected? You’ve built your career on years of communication, and most of the time, it works. But what about the moment when something slips? Your confidence buckles before the big meeting. The agenda becomes useless after a client’s new revelation. Your team isn’t showing up quite the way you know they can. And now your whole industry is watching the rug beneath its feet, feeling the tug. Speakership in the Time of Change is a communication podcast for established leaders navigating change. Professionals who are responsible for both showing up as their best selves to create a vision as well as developing the team around them to hold the room in their own high-stakes moments that test them. Built on frameworks from neuroscience and patterns drawn from 10,000+ hours of working with high-knowledge professionals, Margaret Watts Romney brings this work out from behind the curtain of training rooms and private coaching calls and into every episode. For you. Follow Speakership in the Time of Change and join the leaders who are done leaving their most important moments to chance.
Episodes
Although Mitch Teich has done more than 12,000 interviews, his deepest fear is speaking without a safety net. Across a career in public radio, from unpredictable interviews to an historic ice storm to recent major budget cuts at North Country Public Radio as station manager, he’s had to communicate under pressure. Along the way, he developed a set of principles to build his own net.
The kicker: his principles mirror what resea...
Chris Hutchinson calls himself a "recovering engineer." He was three years old the first time he took a vacuum cleaner apart, and has been looking deep into how things work ever since. From building a cabin with his grandfather, Air Force ROTC, to Motorola, and now supporting leaders and teams across industries, Chris loves looking closely at a system to see how it can work better, even if that means facing the stickiest cog in a t...
Angelica Cortez learned how to get a bunch of people in a room with different opinions to come together and produce good work. Her leadership lessons didn't first come from a seminar, book, or podcast, but from watching her grandfather. He was a strict, no-nonsense man who tested his grandkids on bones and motherboards, but he turned soft and unguarded the moment he picked up a guitar.
Researchers Guy Itzchakov and Avraham Kluger f...
You already know how to push yourself. You've earned the wins nobody saw, the early mornings, the extra hours, and the miles all alone.
But now you're the one leading people, and a harder question shows up. When do you let someone struggle their way to their own belief about themself, and when do you hand them the positive reflection they need to hear from you?
This episode follows former Olympic Gold Medal swimming coach...
Have you ever been in a conversation that suddenly went somewhere you didn't expect, and felt yourself go completely blank?
Most of us have been told that the answer to high-pressure communication is more confidence: more talking points, more volume, more assuredness. So when a conversation goes sideways, and none of that seems to work, it feels like the floor has dropped out.
But what if there's a structure underneath every moment o...
What if the calm you're looking for in a high-stakes moment isn't about preparing harder, but about stepping back further?
Most of us think that the way through fear is to control every variable: memorize the pitch word for word, run the numbers one more time, rehearse the conversation until it's airtight. So when nerves show up anyway, in front of the board, the sharks, or your own team, it feels like proof you didn't prepare enoug...
What if the communication skill that makes things happen isn't the one you practice on a stage?
Here's the problem: most of us think our speaking only counts when we're behind a podium, pitching to investors, or standing on a red dot under a spotlight. So if we're not "speakers" in that sense, we assume we don't need to evolve how we communicate at all.
But that gap is where people stall. It’s in the meetings where you give har...
Trailer — Speakership in the Time of Change
You've built your career on holding a lot of information in your head and using that info to help others. So when a conversation or meeting takes a pivot, and you don't know what to say next, it can feel like proof you don't have what it takes.
Here's what we see: those moments have a structure. Once you can see it, you stop struggling in times of change and start navigating them on p...
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