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Fluency, Identity, and Leading in French with Rachel Pierre

Gary Gillan

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Rachel didn't speak a word of English until she was eighteen. A year later she was studying computer engineering in the United States. 

She went on to hold a number of technical leadership roles, then watched senior executives lose all their authority the moment a room switched to French. 

She realized she had the secret sauce to fix it - and Parlez! was born.

Perfect for: Leaders and executives operating in francophone environments who freeze, hesitate, or lose their command the moment the language shifts. Especially relevant for anyone in Canada who has ruled themselves out of roles because they don't speak French.

Your transformation:

  • Understanding why your brain freezes mid-sentence in another language - and the neural reset that switches it off
  • The cultural cue most leaders misread - and how it can completely derail your objectives
  • Why effort, not perfection, is what keeps you in command of the room
  • The real roadblock to fluency, and it isn't the language

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