25–26 February 2027 · 10 places remaining
Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland · Limited to 12 leaders
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Influence comes from communicating ideas that people understand, remember and act on.
You’re great at what you do. You’ve spent years earning that expertise, and the respect that comes with it. But somewhere along the way, being the expert stopped being enough.
Now you are expected to:
Communicate strategy with clarity
Win buy-in for complex ideas
Lead change without aggravating resistance
Inspire a team around a shared vision
Influence teams, boards, investors, clients, or senior stakeholders
And privately, you know the harder truths too. The heart that races before the big presentation. The louder, less-qualified voice that dominates the room. The quiet sense that, after years in the role, you’re still seen as the expert — not yet the leader.
What changes
Before
You explain your work. People follow the logic — but they don’t move.
After
You make one clear point people remember and repeat.
Before
Your slides are full of data and Excel sheets; the meaning gets lost.
After
You connect the data to what it actually means for real people.
Before
You hold back the personal story — it feels too exposing.
After
You use story with intention to build trust and win buy-in.
Before
You manage nerves by going quiet, careful and over-controlled.
After
You speak with calm, presence and authority — upward and down.
Before
You’re respected as the expert in the room.
After
You’re followed as the leader in the room.
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★★★★★
Gisele Champion, Head of Financial Restructuring, BNP Paribas
You work on your own real, high-stakes communication throughout. Whether you are selling a strategy to the board, pitching investors, or rallying a team, every framework is applied directly to your own message.
Find the one message that matters
Cut the corporate blah blah and endless PowerPoint slides. Take a complex idea and find the single message that matters: exactly what people need to understand, remember, and repeat. Clarity of thought comes before clarity of expression, so we start there.
Move people from informed to inspired
Speak to the why, not just the what or the how. Tell the bigger story that gives your work direction, and lead change in a way that honours what people fear losing rather than pushing through their resistance. This is how you move from informative to influential.
Win buy-in without forcing
Learn to anticipate the real objection beneath the stated one, reduce the risk people feel, and make them want to say yes. This is where you learn to sell an idea, a product, or a vision.
Tell the story only you can tell
Many experts hold back the human story because it feels too personal. Chosen well, it’s exactly what turns information into meaning and builds trust. You’ll learn which story to tell, how to make it relevant to the room, and how to use your own experience to create credibility and connection.
Speak with presence and authority
Learn how to use your voice and body language with intention, so you deliver with calm confidence instead of nerves.
I’ve spent my career helping people close this gap between expertise and influence through powerful communication skills.
I’ve coached hundreds of senior leaders and founders, from CEOs unveiling strategy to entrepreneurs pitching investors, who knew their material inside out but struggled to make it land.
The problem was never expertise.
It was communication.
And that’s a skill that can be learned.
Shannon Jenkins is a keynote speaker and leadership communication trainer trusted by organisations including Nestlé, Nespresso, Google, and IMD Business School.
She has coached over 200 leaders across global organisations, interviewed more than 100 world-class thinkers on the RESONATE podcast (63,000 listeners across 148 countries), and spoken on international stages of up to 2,500 people.
The core
Two full days of in-person training and live coaching with Shannon, in a curated room of twelve senior leaders and founders from different industries.
Personalised coaching on your own real, high-stakes communication
A private 30-minute integration call with Shannon, 3-4 weeks afterwards
Shared lunches, sunset cocktails and canapés, and refreshments throughout
Your bonuses
- yours to keep for 6 months post leadership intensive
Full access to the Speak to Resonate online program: the complete video curriculum, checklists and frameworks
Your personal AI communication assistant, trained on Shannon’s coaching and an analysis of 100 of the world’s best and worst speeches
Two days. Twelve leaders. One of the most beautiful views in Switzerland. With an intimate group of high-performing peers, hosted in a stunning private setting above Lake Geneva.
Most training fades within a week. This is built so it doesn’t. The two day intensive starts the change. For the six months that follow, the Speak to Resonate online program and your personal AI assistant make the learning last.
The online program
You get full access to the complete Speak to Resonate online program for six months. The entire method, from finding your core message to storytelling, delivery and winning buy-in, in short professionally recorded videos, checklists and frameworks.
The AI assistant
Trained on my coaching and an analysis of 100 of the world’s best and worst speeches, your AI assistant reads your real material and gives feedback in my voice. A clarity score out of 10. The lines worth keeping. What to cut. The fastest way to sharpen a talk, a pitch or an important email, in the moment you need it.
“The AI tool is amazing, almost uncanny. It’s like having Shannon’s voice in my head whenever I write or present. So useful!”
Bilyana Georgieva-Voeva,
Employee Health Manager, Nestlé
average rating
‘strongly recommend’
deliver more
effective presentations
express their ideas
more clearly
*From 189 leaders who completed Speak to Resonate in 2024/25, across Nestlé, Nespresso, Tandem Diabetes Care and more.
Dates
25–26 February 2027
Timing
Day 1, 09:00–20:00; Day 2, 09:00–17:00
Location
Le Mont-Pèlerin, above Vevey in the Lake Geneva region — accessible by car and public transport
Language
English
Group size
maximum 12
Not included
accommodation and travel
Application
places confirmed after a fit conversation
Investment
3,750CHF + VAT per leader.
(Each cohort is curated for the right mix of leaders. Tell us about your role, challenges and aspirations; we will be in touch about fit.)
General
★★★★★
Mélanie Brinbaum, Chief Marketing Officer Europe, Nestlé