Workshop: How to Own the Room with Viv Groskop

Are you looking to improve your skills in chairing and hosting events?  A confidence boost in representing yourself well in a panel discussion?  Are you a writer/creative looking to improve interview techniques, identify strategies to calm nerves and strengthen connectivity to audiences? 

Then this Workshop might be for you as we are delighted to welcome Viv Groskop to Belfast in January.

Author of 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) Viv will host a workshop on key skills and techniques that will support you in the art of brilliant speaking. 

We heard from a few folks in Belfast Book Festival 2024 that they’d love to improve their interview/hosting/public speaking skills. This is Workshop is part of our response to that feedback! 

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.