The Language of Leadership: How to Engage and Inspire Your Team

Joel Schwartzberg

Jul 2021 · Berrett-Koehler Audio · Narrated by Jeff Hoyt

About this audiobook

Convey the essence of leadership with every communication.

Everything you communicate has the power to secure or sabotage your impression. But while you may be an empathic, visionary, responsive, inspiring, authentic, supportive, and humble leader, the lasting impact of those qualities hinges on your ability to communicate them effectively in words and expressions.

Drawing on his decades of experience as a presentation coach, executive speechwriter, and national champion public speaker, Joel Schwartzberg offers unique mindsets, actionable tactics, and diverse examples to help you leverage the most powerful leadership tool you have: your voice. Whether you're giving speeches, telling stories, sending emails, posting messages, recording videos, or running Zoom meetings, these are essential practices for establishing authority and engaging your audience.

The Language of Leadership will show you how to inspire, not merely inform, communicate with purpose and power, and sell—not just share—your most important ideas.

About the author

Joel Schwartzberg is a leadership communications coach whose clients include American Express, Blue Apron, the Brennan Center for Justice, Comedy Central, the American Jewish Committee, and North Point Ministries. ​He is senior director of strategic and executive communications for the New York City American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Schwartzberg’s articles on effective communication have appeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and Toastmaster magazine, and he’s been the featured guest on business and communication podcasts.