by Monica Lunin | Mar 29, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence
Back in March 2015 Bill Gates delivered a TED Talk declaring that the greatest risk of global catastrophe would come from a highly infectious virus. He then displayed this image on the screen. Chilling. Now as the world battles to cope with the Novel Caronavirus...
by Monica Lunin | Mar 19, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
On this day one year ago, Jacinda Ardern delivered a compelling speech of quiet strength in the New Zealand parliament in the wake of the Christchurch Massacre. On a quiet Friday afternoon, a man stormed into a place of peaceful worship and took away the lives of 50...
by Monica Lunin | Mar 15, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
“…no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.”Aneurin...
by Monica Lunin | Mar 8, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
Reflecting on a Betty Friedan speech in March 1970, in honour of her legacy on the occasion of International Women’s Day. “We need an instant revolution against sexual oppression.” In 1970, 50 years after American women were awarded the right to...
by Monica Lunin | Mar 1, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
“Just a mile or two from the place where the first European settlers landed, in too many ways it tells us that their failure to bring much more than devastation and demoralisation to Aboriginal Australia continues to be our failure.”Prime Minister Paul...
