Edie Lush
Senior leaders are being asked to carry more public weight than ever: board updates, investor calls, town halls, climate and policy platforms, podcasts, internal video. Most were trained for the room they grew up in and have not updated the craft since. The gap between what they know and how they land in front of an audience is where trust, recruitment and investor confidence quietly leak.
Edie Lush is a journalist, communication coach and event host who helps leaders sharpen how they sound in public, on stage and on camera.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Edie Lush
- She has conducted thousands of interviews at Davos, the UN General Assembly and COP summits, so she can run a senior panel at the level buyers actually book her for.
- Her coaching is built from journalistic craft: structuring a story for a listener, handling a difficult question, holding a point under pressure. Leaders leave with technique, not affirmation.
- She co-wrote How To Speak With Confidence in Public with Charlotte McDougall, published by Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird imprint in 2016, giving clients a named body of work to draw on.
- Her Global GoalsCast work, recognised with the 2018 Media for Social Impact Leadership Council Award at the UN, gives her credibility to moderate sustainability, climate and SDG conversations without needing a briefing to sound informed.
- She reads a room and a panel in real time, keeping senior speakers on the agenda rather than letting a programme drift into set pieces.
Biography highlights
- Executive Editor, Hub Culture, covering Davos, the UN General Assembly and COP climate summits.
- Co-host and co-creator of Global GoalsCast, distributed by CBS News Digital.
- 2018 Media for Social Impact Leadership Council Award, presented at the United Nations.
- Co-author, How To Speak With Confidence in Public, Pan Macmillan (Bluebird), 2016.
- Former Economics and Political Correspondent, Bloomberg Television; columnist, The Week; Associate Editor, Spectator Business.
- Chair, British American Project; board member, Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.
- BA Political Science, UCLA; MA International Relations, Yale University.
Biography
Most senior leaders can brief a board, but freeze when the format changes. Put the same person on a live panel, a podcast, a camera at Davos or a climate summit platform, and the craft that got them into the room stops helping them. Journalists notice this quickly, because they sit on the other side of it all day.
Edie Lush has sat on that side for a long time. At Bloomberg Television she covered economics and politics. She went on to write a column at The Week and serve as Associate Editor of Spectator Business. She is now Executive Editor of Hub Culture, where she produces interview content from Davos, the UN General Assembly and the COP climate summits. The common thread is interviewing serious people under time pressure and making the result land for a general audience.
That interviewer’s discipline is what clients hire her coaching practice to transfer. How To Speak With Confidence in Public, co-written with Charlotte McDougall and published by Pan Macmillan’s Bluebird imprint in 2016, sets out the method: structure a story for a listener, manage the energy in a room, hold a point under challenge. She applies the same toolkit as moderator and MC, and as co-host of Global GoalsCast, the CBS News Digital podcast that earned her the 2018 Media for Social Impact Leadership Council Award at the UN.
The work now reaches two audiences. One is organisers of serious events who need a chair who can keep a sustainability, policy or tech conversation on the agenda rather than letting it wander. The other is executives and founders who have to carry their company’s voice in public and know they are a draft short of doing it well.
Key speaking topics
- Executive communication and public speaking
- Moderation and panel craft for senior audiences
- Sustainable Development Goals and climate communication
- Storytelling for leaders and founders
- On-camera and podcast presence for executives
- Women in leadership and public platforms
Ideal for
- CEOs, founders and C-suite leaders preparing for investor days, town halls, earnings calls and keynote moments.
- Heads of Communications and Corporate Affairs briefing spokespeople for stage, camera and podcast.
- Organisers of senior conferences, summits and board offsites who need a chair who can hold a room of principals.
- Sustainability, ESG and policy leads running SDG, climate or development events in front of mixed government and corporate audiences.
Audience outcomes
- A clearer method for structuring a talk or panel answer so the point lands on first hearing.
- Practical techniques for managing nerves, energy and presence on stage and on camera.
- A sharper read on how journalists and moderators hear executive messaging, and how to adjust.
- For events she chairs: a programme that stays on agenda, with senior speakers pushed past their prepared lines.