Sip & Speak

Sip and Speak by Samantha J. Best is a space to build confidence and clarity in communication.

Through events, a podcast, and a newsletter, we help you speak up, show up, and stand out.

17/09/2026

Telling someone they were too quiet in the meeting does nothing except make them quieter.

Chris Dyer changes the timing rather than the message. Same request, delivered before the room instead of after it, and the person walks in ready rather than corrected.

Sip & Speak Vol. 007.

15/09/2026

Forty percent of his clients disappeared inside a year, and he spent months working out whose fault it was.

Then Chris Dyer looked in the mirror. The part of that story most leaders skip is how long the blaming lasted before the admitting started.

Sip & Speak Vol. 007.

13/09/2026

The numbers are not the story. They are the receipt.

Hugh Massie on reading a set of accounts as a record of the decisions somebody made under pressure.

Sip & Speak Volume 006. Full episode out now.

12/09/2026

Look at next week's calendar and count the hours you have already given away.

Chris Dyer argues the standing weekly one-on-one is a habit most organisations inherited without ever asking what it was for. Nine reports, nine hours, and largely the same conversation delivered nine separate times.

Sip & Speak Vol. 007 is out now.

11/09/2026

Panama took the room.

Ambassador Diomedes Carles and the Embassy of the Republic of Panama joined us as cultural partner for the third edition of Sip & Speak, and brought Panama's national folkloric ensemble.

The programme finished. The dancing did not.

Photography: Mark Romany

08/09/2026

Wear it on purpose.

Our cover wall for the third edition read: The Unstoppable Issue. Built to be believed. Command the room before you say a word.

Find yourself, tag yourself, and tag the person you came with.

Photography: Mark Romany

06/09/2026

This was the room.

Three editions, three sell-outs. This one was gone before the doors opened. Founders, chief executives, the diplomatic corps, and a floor that would not stop asking questions.

The panel, "Built to Be Believed," paired Commander (Ret'd) Jason Kelshall with image consultant Nicole Anastasia Thomas.

"Once people can relate to you, they can trust you." - Cdr Kelshall

Swipe through the night.

Photography: Mark Romany

30/08/2026

Finish your thoughts. Roderick Von King's advice sounds simple until you notice how many of us trail off the moment someone looks unconvinced.

On Sip & Speak he connects it to something bigger. The discipline of completing your own ideas is the same discipline as being fully yourself in public.

A Sunday listen. 🎙️

24/08/2026

From flight systems to soca. Roderick Von King spent his engineering career being told those two lives could not belong to the same person, then went ahead and lived both anyway.

On Sip & Speak he walks through the journey: the discipline aerospace gave him, and the freedom the music gave back.

Full episode out now. 🎙️

23/08/2026

We are quick to see it in other people and slow to allow it in ourselves.

Roderick Von King on Sip & Speak, on discovering our own beauty. Not as a compliment you accept graciously, but as something you actually have to go and find out about yourself, usually much later than you should have.

He came to it through building things: aircraft, a novel, music. Three different ways of finding out what he was, none of which anyone handed him.

A Sunday listen. 🎙️

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