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Steve Knight

Adjunct Professor of Business Communication

Biography

Steve Knight: is a highly regarded Business Communications Specialist with 32 years’ experience and a solid background in Broadcast Journalism with BBC TV and Discovery. He is a Certified Executive Coach (Hudson Institute of Coaching, Santa Barbara) and Systemic Team Coach (Academy of Executive Coaching, London) and the founder of The Art of Comms app.

Professor: Steve is Adjunct Professor of Business Communication here at INSEAD. Steve and the AoC team run The Art of Communication (AoC) MBA elective in Fontainebleau and Singapore, and the AoC GEMBA elective in Fontainebleau. Steve also conducts seminars on company specific communication projects for our Executive Development Programmes (CSPs).

Communication: Steve works on an international platform with blue-chip companies… Designing and delivering communication and leadership Masterclasses; Helping organisations shape and deliver winning contract pitches and to produce and present internal projects to gain Board or Executive Committee approval; Coaching executives to deliver powerful communications at conferences and live events and how to handle the media and create PR opportunities.

eLearning and sharing community: the Art of Comms app helps you become a great speaker and confident communicator in all settings. It is the communications coach in your pocket. Through our professional sharing community, learn how to improve your Message Clarity, the quality of your Voice, your Body Language and the Gift of You… how to allow your genuine personality shine through.

Executive Coach & Systemic Team Coach: Areas covered; Maximising Leadership Potential, Increasing Executive Presence, Team Dynamics Efficiency & Performance, Appreciative Positive Inquiry, Conflict Resolution, Negotiating, Planning with Purpose, Career Progression, Career Transition, Work Life Balance, Family & Relationship Dynamics, Health & Wellbeing.

Presenter and Keynote Speaker: Steve has a particular flair and proven track record in business presentations for blue chip companies - delivering Keynote Speeches, hosting Events and Conferences, facilitating Question and Answer sessions and presenting live and pre-recorded Business Television programmes.

Television: Steve’s formative years in communication were spent in television and radio. His TV credits include a range of highly successful programmes for the Discovery Channel, including the ITN produced science & technology programme Discovery Today and Discovery People, where guests included Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Chris Bonington. He co-presented Animal Hospital on BBC1 for four years and presented reports for the Saturday night National Lottery Draw.

Linkedin Influencer: Steve is a Linkedin Influencer and writes articles to help you continue to develop your communication and speaking skills and discusses topical issues in the arena of communication. Linkedin Influencer

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A Long-Term Guide to the Art of Communication

Great communicators are always practicing.

Leadership & Organisations

How to Present Like a Superwoman

Tips to help women present and communicate with power and embody who they truly are.
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Leadership & Organisations

Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations

How often have you felt frustrated that a crucial conversation in the business and work arena did not go the way you wanted?

Leadership & Organisations

The Seven Rules to Successful Presentations

Communicating needn’t be a frightening experience. There are some simple rules to take the stress out of presenting that revolve around you.
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Leadership & Organisations

The Introvert's Guide to Great Presenting

It is not about becoming someone you’re not, it’s about allowing yourself to become who you are truly capable of being.
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Responsibility

How Genuinely Authentic Are You?

Whether you are in conversation with presidents or shopkeepers, the Chairman or those that keep the factory floor running, the same you should show up in all situations.

Leadership & Organisations

How to be a great presenter and communicator

How to produce and deliver a winning presentation Part 5 (of 5): from You - being yourself, but who are you?
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Leadership & Organisations

Your Voice Is Your Key to Success

How to hone your vocal delivery to mesmerize your audience with confidence, style and passion.

Strategy

My First Job: Delivering Doctor Who's Daily Newspaper

Steve Knight

The LinkedIn Influencers Editorial team asked 150 Influencers "What was your first job and what were your key learnings?" My first three paid jobs all started around the same time, when I was at the tender age of 10.

Economics & Finance

Passion: I like the way you look

How to produce and deliver a winning presentation Part 3: Passion – I like the way you look So you will have seen through Part 1: Prepared Goals and Part 2: Command Attention, the sequence of events and tasks that help you ensure that your presentation is remembered for all the right reasons, rather than all the wrong reasons. Here in this section of Part 3 I want to focus in on your Passion through facial expression. What do I mean by Passion?

Economics & Finance

How to command attention and deliver a winning presentation

How to produce and deliver a winning presentation Part 2: Command Attention Firstly, thank you for all your comments on Part 1: Prepared Goals. It is a great honour to read your inputs and thoughts, please keep them coming. So, here we go with Part 2 (of 4): Command Attention.

Economics & Finance

How to produce and deliver a winning presentation Part 1: Prepared Goals

The goal of my articles to date here on the LinkedIn Influencers platform has been to help you slow down and guide you on the journey inwards, to discover your true Self, to help you be the Captain of your Ship.

Economics & Finance

Why you need First Aid to be a great communicator and leader

The theme that runs through my previous articles is that when you truly know yourself, standing or sitting in front of an audience with real presence and genuine confidence, being the big person that you are, is not something you suddenly have to switch on there and then in the moment, because it is there with you all the time.

Economics & Finance

Best Advice: Tips for Success and Happiness

Linkedin asked its 150 Influencers “What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?” I can’t pinpoint one particular piece of advice I’ve been given as the pièce de résitance, because I’ve had the great fortune to have absorbed, and continue to absorb, some priceless gems. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the many people that have had a positive influence in my life and for those that continue to do that right now.

Economics & Finance

How to unlock your genuine loving self

At the end of my first article, How to be a genuinely masterful communicator, I said next time it would be my honour to help you slow down and guide you on the journey inwards, to discover your true, authentic self. What better opportunity than Valentine’s Day to unlock your genuine, loving self.

Economics & Finance

Where I Work: Happy Faces, Hungry Minds

Linkedin asked 50 of the 150 Influencers to “Show the world what you see when you work” When there are no barriers in a work (or learning) space, the connection is enhanced, which has a positive effect on my MBA participants, and myself.

Economics & Finance

How to be a genuinely masterful communicator

A client once told me he would rather have four teeth removed without anaesthetic than stand in front of an audience and speak! As for talking to the media, another client said “No thanks, I’d rather go swim with the sharks!” We don’t need to check out any of the “biggest fears” surveys to know that the majority of people really do have a genuine fear and dislike of presenting at meetings and conferences. Even general communication can be a challenge for many.