A practical webinar for people who’ve been quiet for good reasons
How to Speak Your Mind
If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking, I should have said something, you’re not alone. This webinar offers a more useful starting point than “just speak up.”
The Cost of Silence
If it were simple, you would have already done it. Silence is often learned, protective, and shaped by real costs, which is why surface-level communication advice so often falls short.
In this webinar, Elaine offers a more useful way to understand why speaking up can feel hard. Rather than treating the issue as a lack of courage, she helps people see the deeper patterns that make silence hard to interrupt — and what becomes possible when those patterns are easier to name.
A Better Way Forward
This webinar offers a more honest and practical way to think about speaking up.
Notice What’s Happening
See where silence is showing up and what it is making difficult in your work, relationships, or leadership
Reclaim Your Voice
Reconnect with your own thoughts, needs, and perspective instead of defaulting to what others expect from you
Speak With Intention
Learn practical ways to share what matters with more clarity, discernment, and impact.
What You’ll Walk Away With
This webinar is designed to help you understand what’s really happening when speaking up feels hard. You’ll leave with language, perspective, and practical entry points you can begin using right away.
- A clearer understanding of why “just speak up” so often falls short
- A more accurate diagnosis of silence and how it operates
- Language for the self, social, and systemic patterns that keep people quiet
- Practical ways to begin speaking with more intention, discernment, and choice
Ready to Register?
This webinar is a practical introduction to unlearning silence. If you’re ready for a more honest, useful, and human way to think about speaking up, start here.
Meet Elaine Lin Hering
Helping People Communicate Clearly and Work Better Together
Elaine Lin Hering is a USA Today bestselling author, keynote speaker, and former Harvard Law School faculty member known for her work on unlearning silence and speaking up. She has also served as a managing partner of a global leadership development firm, and her work brings together research, lived experience, and practical insight to help people understand why they hold back and how to choose differently.

Meet Elaine Lin Hering
Helping People Communicate Clearly and Work Better Together
Elaine Lin Hering is a USA Today bestselling author, keynote speaker, and former Harvard Law School faculty member known for her work on unlearning silence and speaking up. She has also served as a managing partner of a global leadership development firm, and her work brings together research, lived experience, and practical insight to help people understand why they hold back and how to choose differently.


A Note from Elaine
Silence shapes far more than what gets said out loud. The work I’m committed to is helping people understand those patterns so they can build stronger relationships, better teams, and more honest ways of working together.