by Monica Lunin | Jul 7, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence
“What I’m saying is, don’t delude yourself that the powerful cultural values that wrecked the lives of so many of my classmates have vanished from the earth.” Nora Ephron is the writer and filmmaker that brought us such classics as When Harry...
by Monica Lunin | Jun 22, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence
Maya Angelou lived her life with the enduring belief that words are powerful. On January 20th, 1993, Maya Angelou recited her poem, On the Pulse of Morning, at the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton. As a poet, author and activist she regularly...
by Monica Lunin | May 18, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence
“We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it.” The brave, calm and resolute radio address from Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the United States, on 7 December 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Calm Before the Storm...
by Monica Lunin | Apr 27, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
”Tonight I’m stepping down as your leader,” Mr. Trudeau said in a nationally televised address. ”And in two days we will be choosing a new leader, and you’ll find me there following him because we have more building to do.” ...
by Monica Lunin | Apr 13, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sisters’ keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. “E pluribus...
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...
