Leadership communication gets harder when you know your subject so well that everything feels important. You start explaining, add more context, throw in another example and suddenly you’re rambling without actually getting your point across.

At senior level, it’s not about proving how much you know. It’s about making it easy for people to understand what matters. Strong executive communication means knowing what to include, what to leave out and where you want the conversation to go. Because in leadership meetings, clarity creates credibility.

So how do you stop rambling without losing the warmth and personality that make you a good communicator? You’ll learn three questions that can transform your leadership communication before you even open PowerPoint:

Who is your audience and what matters to them?

What is the one message they need to remember?

What do you want them to do next?

These questions help you move beyond simply sharing information towards purposeful business leadership.

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You’ll hear why a simple message isn’t simplistic, how tailoring your presentation to your audience strengthens public speaking, and why saying less can actually demonstrate greater confidence and expertise.

If public speaking anxiety makes you over-explain under pressure, knowing your destination gives you something to return to when questions, nerves or tangents take you off track.

This builds on my episode, “Public Speaking Anxiety: Why Speaking Up in Leadership Meetings Feels So Scary | Keeping Calm When Presenting”, particularly for women leaders navigating high-pressure conversations.

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Leadership Communication in Action is a podcast for women who are capable, thoughtful, and quietly questioning how they’re showing up at work and in life.

I’m Liz Boswell. I work with professional women who don’t need more advice, but do need space to think clearly, especially when the pressure is on.

Each episode is a calm, mentoring-style conversation grounded in real client moments. We look at the stories people carry, the behaviours those stories create, and the small, practical shifts that change how things land day to day.

You’ll hear honest reflections, psychologically precise questions, and simple actions you can try immediately, without overhauling your life or becoming someone else.

If you’re stepping into more responsibility, more visibility, or simply feeling the weight of decisions that matter, this podcast is here to help you slow things down, think more clearly, and move forward in a way that feels grounded and real.

A quiet companion for people who want to make better moves, not louder ones.