How to Own the Room with Viv Groskop

A special event for women of the Culture & Heritage sector in Northern Ireland. 

Writer, comedian, broadcaster and performance coach Viv Groskop will deliver an exclusive event about public speaking, confidence and ambition.  

She is the author of bestselling books: How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Penguin) and Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition (Penguin). Her award-nominated podcast How to Own the Room is the biggest public speaking podcast in the world. 

This informal event for women in the sector at The Crescent Arts Centre. Join us for what we hope will be a fun and useful session. 

The event format is subject to change, but likely to be as follows: Talk from Viv - 45 minutes; 20 minutes for questions; followed by time for networking and book-signing. Husk Cafe will be open serving hot drinks, scones and soup!

We don’t want finance to be a barrier to joining so this event is free to attend. 

If you are able to make a contribution (or work for an organisation that can contribute) that would be hugely appreciated, so we’ve applied a Pay What you Decide Model at check out.  

Feel free to share with colleagues, collaborators and board members.

This event is presented in partnership: Crescent Arts Centre/Belfast Book Festival + thrive + Arts & Business NI. 

Viv Groskop is a British award-winning writer, comedian, broadcaster and performance coach. She is the author of the best-selling How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking (Penguin) and Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition (Penguin).

Her award-nominated podcast How to Own the Room is the biggest public speaking podcast in the world — with over a million downloads — and features interviews with Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard, Julie Andrews, Google CEO Matt Brittin, Succession’s Brian Cox and dozens more talking about public speaking, confidence and managing high-pressure situations.

Her other books include The Anna Karenina Fix (Penguin) — a best-seller in translation in Russia and Finland — and Au Revoir, Tristesse (Abrams). She appears regularly on BBC TV and radio and for six years she did a run of sold-out one-woman comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.