​"Your Path To Career Success"

S9 Ep10: Communicating with Impact in the Boardroom: Presenting Insights and Recommendations that Shape Executive Decisions

Kathryn Hall "The Career Owl" Season 9 Episode 10

Welcome back to Your Path to Career Success — the podcast that helps you build the skills, confidence, and strategies to thrive in your career.

In this episode, we turn to another defining capability for senior leaders: Communicating with Impact in the Boardroom - how to present insights and recommendations that shape executive decisions and influence direction across the organisation.

Here’s the truth: at senior levels, how you communicate determines how you’re perceived and whether your ideas move the business forward.
 
The best insights don’t speak for themselves; they win attention, traction, and action when they’re framed with clarity, confidence, and strategic intent.


What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The mindset shifts that differentiate transactional reporting from strategic communication
• How to craft messages that command attention and drive executive decisions
• Common communication traps that weaken credibility in the boardroom
• A reflection exercise to strengthen your influence and composure under pressure

At the board level, communication isn’t about sharing data — it’s about shaping direction.
Executives want clarity on what matters, why it matters, and what action is required.
Your ability to distil complexity, align with enterprise priorities, and communicate with composure transforms you from a subject-matter expert into a trusted strategic voice.

 

What Next?

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Useful Resources

📘 The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto — a must-read for structuring executive communication.
📘 Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath — powerful techniques for making your ideas memorable.
📘 Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo — practical storytelling tools to captivate and influence any audience.

 

Next Week

We’ll continue Phase 3 by exploring Leading Transformational Change: guiding large-scale, enterprise-level change without losing momentum or alignment.

And remember, leadership impact isn’t about saying more; it’s about saying what matters most, with confidence and clarity.

I would love to know what you think of the episode