by Monica Lunin | May 27, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Leadership
The Franklin D Roosevelt speech on 8th December 1941 “It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has...
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 | Apr 6, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Leadership
“Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who has raised their voice for their rights.” United Nations, New York, 12 July 2013 – Education activist Malala Yousafzai marks her 16th birthday, on Friday, 12...
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...
by Monica Lunin | Feb 22, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
“My fellow citizens, we stand at the threshold of a new decade. The 2020s can be good years.” A few hours before the strike of midnight, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed her country with a speech embued with determination and hope. In this speech,...
by Monica Lunin | Feb 5, 2020 | A Speech a Week Series, Communication & Influence, Leadership
“I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not.” This is an impassioned yet restrained articulation of a problem that is both nationally significant and deeply, deeply personal. The Iron Steameth Over! To understand the...
