Dr. Laura Sicola is an educational/cognitive linguist, TED/TEDX speaker, former professor, Neurolinguistic Programming(NLP) practitioner, and Executive Communication Coach with decades of work in the field.

Topics covered include what cognitive linguistics is, the art of social sciences, how we process language, what’s wrong with academia, why most doctoral graduates don’t end up being professors, how to sound like a leader, how experts fail to communicate their expertise to people outside their field, what’s breaking down your communication, how much of our communication lies in things other than our words, how metaphors help us understand, what upspeak is, how to fix it, and Neurolinguistic Programming.

You can find Laura on her website: laurasi ...