European Speechwriter Network

European Speechwriters

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Great advice and wisdom from those that write and deliver speeches for business and politics. A series of talks recorded at the European Speechwriter Network Conferences.

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Sep 12, 2025

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Episodes

Chair's Introduction - Jens Kjeldsen 29.10.2015

11th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference, 22 & 23 October, Neue Mälzerei, Berlin.

Tom Morrisey - The Staying Power of Story 15.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Hanneke Kulik - How to digress to impress 11.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Steve Bee - Visual Communication 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Lucia Hodgson - Speechwriting from Westminster to Whitehall 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Hal Gordon - The Man Who Made Winston Churchill 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Jesper Langergaard - Laughing matters: how to persuade your boss to use humour 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Alexander von Reumont - Charisma analysis: Where does the credibility of the speaker come from? 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Rev Kate Bruce - Public Speech: Igniting the heart or extinguishing the will to live? Why imagination matters for speechwriters 06.05.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Alan Leaman - Tales from the frontline: speechwriting experiences in politics and business 20.04.2015

10th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 16 & 17 April, Westminster College, Cambridge.

Marcus Webb - The art, craft and future of speechwriting 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Andreas Kluth - Should you hate Angela Merkel's speechwriter? 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Alexei Kapterev - Slides: The love (and hate) of my life 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Richard Newman - Impact and Influence - How the speaker's delivery style can drastically change the impact of your speech 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Ryan Heath - SpeechPlus: developing speeches that have impact beyond the room they are delivered in 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Julia De Clerk Sachsse - Lost in translation? Speaking about Europe to the rest of the world 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Jan Sonneveld - How speechwriting changed me 05.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Chairman's Introduction - Graham Davies 04.11.2014

9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.

Professor Robert Lehrman - What limits Presidential speechwriters? 21.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Bob Lehrman is a novelist, teacher, and speechwriter for dozens of Democratic political figures including Vice President Al Gore. He’s author of The Political Speechwriter’s Companion (CQPress 2009).

David Krikler - How to be funny and diplomatic 21.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. David is a consultant at the Tetra-Strategy PR agency. He spent several years at the Israeli Embassy in London, as the chief communications adviser to Ambassador Ron Prosor, providing round the clock counsel during a number of high-profile international incidents and gaining valuable experience of crisis commun...

Sam Leith - How classical rhetoric can help you write better speeches 21.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Sam is the author of four books, most recently You Talkin' To Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. He writes a column in the Financial Times about public speaking, called 'The Art of Persuasion' and also contributes to the Evening Standard and Prospect as well as reviewing books for the Guardian, Spectator and...

Willi Vogler - The German Speechwriting Culture 21.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Willi is a founder member of the German speechwriters association, Verband der Redenschreiber deutscher Sprache, launched in 1998 by the former speechwriter to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Thilo von Trotha. A trained journalist, he changed to public relations in 1968, working in managerial positions at British Ai...

Caroline Johns - Tales from a speechwriter’s life in The City 20.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Caroline’s role as Chief of Staff to Deloitte’s global Chairman, Steve Almond, involves preparing speeches, presentations and detailed research briefings on a wide variety of subjects encompassing sport to economics to world politics, and just about everything in between. Prior to taking on this role, Caroline...

Jens E. Kjeldsen - What's the point of speeches - and speechwriting? 20.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Jens is professor of rhetoric and visual communication at University of Bergen (Norway). He has written extensively about rhetoric, speech making, speech writing and powerpoint-presentations. He is president of the Rhetoric Society of Europe and co-founder and longtime chief editor of the research journal Rheto...

Celia Delaney: Introduction - Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014 20.10.2014

Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford.

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