beige speakers cost you growth. Brave ones drive it.
Giving a boring talk is worse than giving no talk at all. If your leaders don’t own the room when they speak, they’ll lose to someone braver.
Your team’s got high-stakes moments on the calendar. Let’s make sure they nail them.
Boring Costs Money
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They Don’t Own The Room (Yet!)
Being smart doesn’t make you compelling. Jargon and abstract concepts kill connection. Nerves kill charisma.
If your people ramble, bore, or freeze, they lose the room, and the opportunity.
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No Story, No Sale
When your leaders don’t own their point of view or let their personality shine through, no one buys in: inside or outside your company. Strategic storytelling isn’t a soft skill. Thought leadership isn’t optional. It’s how ideas stick, trust is built, and momentum spreads.
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Visibility Moments: Wasted
Pitches. Panels. Conferences. Giving a bad talk is worse than giving no talk at all. If your leaders show up bland, scared, or unoriginal, they miss the chance to raise their profile, and your company’s. Your competition won’t.
Book a call with Iona, and let’s talk about how a Star Power Speaker intensive can turn your team into thought leaders and trusted advisors.
AI Can’t Save Your Team From Bad Talks
AI can write their scripts. It can design decks in a flash. It can automate everything. But there’s one thing it can’t do.
When the lights are on, the stakes are high, and all eyes are on them, AI can’t stand up, build trust, and win the room.
That’s human territory. And most teams lose it.
Smart and knowledgeable isn’t enough. If your leaders freeze, ramble, or hide behind jargon, they’ll lose the room, and business, to someone braver.
AI has scrubbed the imperfection out of people, but you can’t automate conviction. You can’t fake charisma. You can’t outsource presence.
Every company has high-stakes moments. The difference between the ones who win and the ones who fade into the wallpaper?
Their leaders know how to stand up and make sure they’re remembered, for the right reasons.
When your team becomes Star Power Speakers, they don’t just stand out. They’re sought out.
Your Team Needs Star Power Speaker
The Speaking Intensive And Live Showcase That Turn Experts into Thought Leaders
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Master the Art of Public Speaking, Fast
Public speaking is half sport, half art: Star Power is where your team will master both.
In this speaking intensive, participants write and deliver a 10-minute talk at a live showcase. Whether personal, leadership-focused, or tied to company initiatives, your team will learn to own the room.
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Kill Nerves & Boost Charisma
No more freezing under pressure, blushing, or nervous twitches. In Star Power, your team will learn practical tools to kill nerves and boost charisma, no matter their personality type.
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Stories That Move People
Dry data. Sleepy audiences. Speakers bleeding out on stage, sharing stories they’re not ready to tell. We see opportunity. If you’re willing to be brave, we turn your voice into a weapon: the good kind.
We teach your team to weave compelling stories with data, concepts, and quotes that stir emotions, spark action, and close deals. Storytelling isn’t just entertainment: it’s how you capture attention and build trust.
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Own the Room Under Pressure
Pressure creates diamonds.
At the heart of Star Power is the live showcase, where your team will deliver a 10-minute talk they’ve worked on during the intensive to a live audience.
This is where accountability meets action: no hiding, no excuses. All speakers will have the tools, support, and practice to follow through, ensuring when their moment in the spotlight comes, they own it. -
Creating Thought Leaders
The talks participants create and deliver during Star Power aren’t just for the showcase: they’re powerful assets your company can leverage for internal events, leadership development, or marketing.
This public speaking intensive gives your team lasting confidence and materials they can use to elevate their roles and your company’s initiatives.Star Power is more than just training: it’s an investment in your people and your company.
And if you’ve got people on your team hungry for the spotlight? Star Power pours gasoline on that ambition.
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Building Bravery, Fast
Star Power is a high-impact cohort model, because people rise faster together.
Expect healthy competition, shared momentum, and a final live showcase.
Standard cohort size: 5
Standard timeline: 5 weeks. Need speed? We can collapse it to 2.
Remote, in-person, or hybrid. You choose.
Your people walk away with a 10-minute talk that sets them apart.
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Confidence Tripled. Nerves Cut In Half. Bravery Doubled.
Star Power Speaker isn’t theory. It’s a performance lab for thought leaders.
↑ 162%
confidence to deliver a talk
↓ 46%
public speaking nerves
↑ 68%
comfort speaking without notes
↑ 175%
clarity on talk topic
↑ 128%
bravery to share a strong story
83%
self-rated 10/10 confident to speak after Star Power
Your team walks away with:
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A custom 10-minute talk
Per participant.
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Live experience under pressure
Plus, nervous system tools to regulate performance
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Reusable leadership assets
For internal events, panels, marketing, and conferences.
Book a call with Iona, and let’s talk about how a Star Power Speaker intensive can help your team own the room.
They call me the Gentle Beast
You’ve got the bravest speakers on your team. They just don’t know it yet.
Hi, I’m Iona: keynote speaker, consultant, and the founder of Brave Thing.
I help your best people speak with conviction, lead with clarity, and win the room, especially when the stakes are sky-high.
Public speaking is half sport, half art, and I’m built for both:
🎤 Keynote speaker + bestselling author → I live this work
🏋️♀️ Former All-American athlete → I know pressure
🧠 Degree in journalism + master’s in advertising → I know how to shape ideas that stick through storytelling
I love to win. And I know how to teach people how to kill self-consciousness, boost charisma, and own the room when they speak.
Why trust me to help your team own the room?
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Queen of Goosebumps
“Best keynote in 20 years.”
“Unified the entire room.”
“The truest hour in my 43 years at this company.”Mic drop.
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Call Me The Closer
My career as a Creative Director had me pitching multi-hundred-thousand-dollar projects to major institutions.
While others obsessed over deliverables and timelines, I focused on hearts and minds. Because when your audience feels something, they say yes.
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5-Figure Keynote Speaker
I’ve been hired by Volkswagen, Skadden Law, ImagineCo, Women of the Channel, BMC, Arctic Wolf, Syracuse University, Georgetown University, Teach for America, XTreme Reach, and more.
They bring me in because I move rooms, and can train their leaders and teams to do the same.
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Breathwork Facilitator & All-American Athlete
Speaking is a full-body sport. I teach the breathwork tools that regulate nerves and ground energy. Because tech can’t stop your hands shaking. This work can. Performing under the brightest lights is fun when you trust your body to stay cool.
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Best-Selling Author
Ghost — Why Perfect Women Shrink has 100+ five-star reviews. I know how to write stories that hit and help you position your message to move hearts and minds, and close new business.
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Self-Made Founder
I didn’t study how to be a speaker. I became one by doing the Brave Thing. Now I’ll show your team how.
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Own the room. Move the room. Close the room.
Let’s talk about how Star Power Speaker can transform your team’s public speaking and leadership.