The Workshop
Unlock your potential at How to Own the Room, a public speaking workshop designed exclusively for women. Join Viv Groskop on 26th February 2026 in London, and transform your speaking skills.
About the workshop
Join us for an empowering workshop designed to help you find your voice. Here are the essential details to ensure you’re fully prepared for an impactful day of learning and growth. Only 12 places available.
- Where: Old Session House, 22 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0NA
- Date: 26th February 2026
- Time: 8:30 AM (Registration) - 5:00 PM
- Includes: Breakfast and Lunch
Your personal invite
We are pleased to invite you to How to Own the Room, a personalised, bespoke presentation skills workshop, hosted by Viv Groskop, in a group setting where you will have a chance to identify your strengths, build a style that feels authentic and troubleshoot any common areas of difficulty in a supportive, fast-learning environment. We will be looking at boosting presence and status, digging into best practice for presentations, interviews and meetings and going beneath the surface to pinpoint common limiting beliefs and public speaking myths that can hold us back.
We all have natural presence, sometimes we just don’t know how to amplify it or our nerves stop us from accessing it. Drawing on her own experience as a comedian and BBC Radio 4 presenter — as well as the tips and tricks from the 200+ women she has interviewed as host of the hit podcast How to Own the Room — Viv hosts a unique, hands-on masterclass on achieving a compelling connection in any context, whilst managing your nerves.
What You'll Gain
- How to speak up in meetings and be heard
- How to handle interruptions
- How to “dial up” your strengths and “dial down” your weaknesses
- How to be persuasive in difficult conversations
- How to manage anxiety around public speaking
- How to deliver succinct messaging in speeches and direct asks
We will work on the following in more depth:
- Adapting tone, voice and communication style to different settings without ever pretending to be someone you’re not
- Incorporating the latest research on non-verbal communication (now estimated to count for 80% of our communication style)
- Voicing and identifying underlying beliefs about our presentation style and investigating whether these are true or helpful
- Learning how to “dial up” strengths and “dial down” weaknesses
- Navigating new flexible communication styles necessary for virtual platforms and hybrid working
Suitable for senior women or emerging leaders who are:
- Looking to “level up” or challenge themselves
- Going for a re-boot after a setback or a career break
- Wanting to grow fast (with little speaker experience)
- Wanting to extend emotional range and intellectual impact (with strong speaker experience)
- Seeking a confidential, supportive and creative environment where you will feel inspired, motivated and properly challenged in a sensitive way.
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Meet Your Instructor
Viv Groskop
Viv is a sought-after workshop leader and facilitator known for bringing gentle individualised feedback and humour into training in the corporate and charity sectors. She specialises in presence, public speaking, assertiveness, influencing skills and leadership development. With a background in stand-up comedy, she has a particular interest in authenticity and impact and in helping others to develop a powerful and individual voice.
Viv is a regular on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row and has appeared on Newsnight and Any Questions. She is the author of the international best-sellers How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Transworld), Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition (Transworld) and Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident (Torva).
Viv’s podcast How to Own the Room is the biggest resource in the world on women and public speaking and has twice been nominated Best Business podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Now in its 22nd series and with over 2.5 million downloads, the podcast is a conversation about power, confidence, status and public speaking with guests like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Valerie Jarrett, Professor Mary Beard, Dame Helena Morrissey, Sarah Hurwitz (speechwriter to the Obamas) and over 200 more interviewees. Viv is a regular presenter on BBC radio and television and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Miriam Margoyles.
Viv is a regular on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row and has appeared on Newsnight and Any Questions. She is the author of the international best-sellers How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Transworld), Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition (Transworld) and Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident (Torva).
Viv’s podcast How to Own the Room is the biggest resource in the world on women and public speaking and has twice been nominated Best Business podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Now in its 22nd series and with over 2.5 million downloads, the podcast is a conversation about power, confidence, status and public speaking with guests like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Valerie Jarrett, Professor Mary Beard, Dame Helena Morrissey, Sarah Hurwitz (speechwriter to the Obamas) and over 200 more interviewees. Viv is a regular presenter on BBC radio and television and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Miriam Margoyles.