Lucinda Holdforth is a speech writer, writing consultant and author.
She works with senior business leaders to craft speeches that are compelling and entertaining,
and serve both tactical and long-term objectives.
Lucinda’s speech writing experience is immense
and broad ranging, and her client list includes
board directors and senior executive across the aviation, telecommunications and information technology, banking and mining sectors.
She has written on everything from air traffic
management to the latest broadband developments;
from women in leadership to corporate sustainability;
business innovation strategies to public sector reform.
Lucinda also works with clients on speeches commemorating important personal events. These include birthdays, weddings, and funerals, but also important ceremonial occasions such as graduation addresses and ANZAC Day addresses.
Lucinda is the author of two non-fiction works: True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris (2004) and Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilised Behaviour in a Barbarous World (2007) that are still being published in markets and languages around the world. In 2010 Lucinda was one of three judges of the Douglas Stewart non-fiction prize for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Lucinda lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband Syd Hickman. She would like to persuade the world that clear communication, based on lucid thinking, is one of the key ways we express ourselves as civilised beings.