Is Laura Right For This Room?
Laura is the right speaker for your event if your audience is sharp, senior, and ready for a keynote that actually moves the room.
You want more than a motivational hour. You want a keynote that sparks real conversation in the room, and changes what happens after people go back to work.
You’re planning a leadership conference, executive offsite, women’s leadership event, or industry summit where communication, influence, executive presence, succession, thought leadership, or trust are central.
You need a speaker who can captivate a 2,500-person ballroom and a 25-person C-suite boardroom with the same credibility, warmth, and command.
You want substance without stiffness. Humor without fluff. Research without the fog machine.
You want your audience moving from insightful “a-ha” moments and knowing head nods to belly laughs and deep personal insights, from the first thirty seconds to the very end.
If that’s the room you’re building, Laura’s the voice you want in it.
The Takeaway
What Changes For The Room
Laura’s goal isn’t to deliver a strong presentation. It’s to create a real shift in how the audience thinks about communication, presence, and influence, especially in the moments when the stakes are high and the margin for misinterpretation is small. Laura builds every keynote around her Three Degrees of Impact: what the audience will think, feel, and do differently when she's done. The audience leaves with:
•A clearer, more actionable definition of executive presence.
•A deeper understanding of the gap (and what creates it) between what they think they said and what others actually heard.
•Practical language for strengthening communication at any level.
•A sharper understanding of how the perception of your leadership brand is shaped, and reshaped.
•Tools for becoming more concise, compelling, and influential.
•Strategies for adapting your communication style to different audiences without losing authenticity.
•More confidence in how to show up when the stakes are highest.
These are takeaways that keep delivering value long after the event ends, the kind of frameworks attendees email Laura about months later, asking when she’s coming back.
Live, Virtual, Hybrid, Worldwide
KEYNOTES
Laura keynotes leadership conferences, executive offsites, women’s leadership events, industry summits, association meetings, and Fortune 500 internal events around the world. Each keynote is tailored to your audience, your stakes, and the outcomes you actually need from the room, not pulled from a stock deck.
Inquire About A Keynote →By The Numbers
7M+
Views on Laura’s flagship TEDx talk
3
TEDx talks delivered
5
Continents Laura has spoken on
20+
Years coaching senior leaders
Credentials That Match The Room
Why Event Organizers
Trust Laura With The Keynote
Laura is a cognitive linguist with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, three-time TEDx speaker, and author of Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice. Her TEDxPenn talk, Want to Sound Like a Leader? Start by Saying Your Name Right, has been viewed more than 7 million times and remains one of the most-shared TED talks in its category.
She speaks four languages, has lived and worked abroad, and brings real multicultural fluency to global stages, the kind earned in the rooms, not read about in the research.
See Past Engagements →Tailored To Your Audience And Event
What Laura
Speaks About
Every keynote is tailored to your audience, event, and strategic priorities. Laura's signature topics include:
Speaking To Influence
Laura's signature keynote. Audiences learn the verbal, vocal, and visual mechanics that determine whether a message is merely understood, or actually trusted.
Leadership Communication In The Age Of AI
When AI can write and analyze in seconds, information alone doesn't make a leader stand out. Trust does. How leaders build authentic presence and natural charisma when content is abundant but human connection is scarce.
Top 5 Secrets To Confident Public Speaking
The mindset and habits that separate confident speakers from everyone else. How to settle nerves, open with authority, control pacing, and end with the kind of clarity that makes the room remember the message.
Communicating Through Conflict
A practical, even humorous look at the hidden assumptions and strategies that move difficult conversations toward stronger relationships instead of broken ones.
Leadership With An Accent
How to lead, influence, and be heard when you're working in a language that isn't your own. For expat leaders and global professionals navigating non-native communication.
Custom keynotes and panel formats also available on request.
KIND
WORDS
From The C-Suite
“In the 32 years of this conference, Laura is the only speaker who was so powerful we had to bring her back!”
S. Heishman, coordinator, Professional Business Women of California conference
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DR. LAURA SICOLA
Based in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. Available worldwide, in person and on camera.