Dare: Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership

Not Business as Usual

In the current business climate of distrust, cynicism, and fear, Scott Weiss offers a radical challenge to those of us who lead others. His call for authentic, trusting leadership means dropping the mask of the Executive Persona as well as the camouflage and doubletalk of traditional corporate communications. It demands an end to our self-deceptions and the deception of others in the name of business as usual. As Weiss puts it…

“The foundation of trust is established through uncompromised honesty, empathy, humility, and vulnerability. These are the Communication competencies that are required to achieve the trust that result in true effective leadership. If you make your word good and be as good as your word, you will motivate teams to unprecedented levels of performance.”

Those who are brave enough to accept his DARE will discover…

• More loyal, satisfied clients and customers
• Reduced turnover and more Engaged employees
• A more creative, innovative, and collaborative workplace
• Less personal conflict and more genuine relationships
• The passion to thrive, not just survive, in our professions
• Improved performance on all levels

A courageous book that calls on leaders themselves to step up and make the changes that will achieve much higher levels of trust, and restore business integrity for customers, employees, and the global public.

Scott S. Weiss is Chairman and former CEO and Owner of Speakeasy, a globally renowned communication consulting firm established in 1974. The company has offices in Atlanta, San Francisco, New York and Chicago, as well as ongoing operations in Boston, Houston, London, Dubai, and Mumbai India. The company works with executives and teams in developing the impact and effectiveness of their communication capabilities, both internally with staff and externally with their constituents. Last year the company worked with several thousand executives in 10 different countries, and since the company’s inception in 1973, has worked with hundreds of CEO’s including some of the most notable from the Fortune 100.

Weiss is the author of the Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Winner and Amazon bestselling book DARE! Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership. He is also a frequent guest blogger, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, CNN Money, Inc., Investor's Business Daily, and numerous business blogs. Weiss additionally is a frequent guest speaker at a variety of industry conferences and radio talk shows, and serves as an advisor to many C-suite executives and CEO’s.

Prior to joining Speakeasy in 1994, Weiss served for ten years at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Time Warner) as an Executive Vice President in charge of satellite distribution for the Turner networks domestically, as well as involvement in many network development projects including creating the CNN Airport Channel and CNN Local Edition. In addition to Turner Broadcasting, Weiss also served four years as Senior Vice President for Southmark CRCA, a New York Stock Exchange financial service and investment banking firm.

Weiss is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus for the T. Howard Foundation, a highly regarded Washington D.C. non-profit with an unprecedented Board, that promotes “opportunity” for young professionals in the media entertainment and technology industries. He has served as an ''Emmy'' voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) for some 34 years and formerly served on the Board of Advisors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Entrepreneur Organization of Atlanta, the Emory University Board of Visitors, and was a Founding Board member of Start Up Atlanta.

Weiss attended Michigan State University where he received his degree from the College of Communications Arts and Sciences and received the Alumni of the Year Award in 2019. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Georgia Tech School of Management.

He resides in Jupiter, Florida with his wife Marci of 40 years; and they are parents to three professionally successful young adults.