Katty Kay

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AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST AND BROADCASTER & AUTHOR OF THE CONFIDENCE CODE

REACH Within and Unlock Your Full Potential

Confidence! With it, we can take on the world; without it, we don’t ask for raises, request that important meeting or take risks. In the success equation, research shows that confidence is even more critical than competence. But what is confidence? Where does it come from? Are we born with it or do we acquire it? And why do women have less of it than their talents deserve? Award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Katty Kay, will reveal what we all need to know about the art and science of confidence, share what we need to do to make confidence a choice, and challenge us to take action – to REACH within, to get outside our comfort zones, to take risks, and discover the secret to success.

interviewed by

Shash Goyal

Vice President of

Engineering Operations & Strategy

Salesforce

Katty's Bio

For a world reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Washington-based former BBC News anchor Katty Kay brings a sorely needed fresh perspective on the state of American politics, the economy and global affairs.

Katty’s insights reflect a global mindset that is a natural offshoot of having grown up in the Middle East and her work as a journalist in Europe, Africa, and Asia before coming to Washington in 1996. During her nearly 30-years with BBC News, she was a reporter and then news anchor, bringing important news from America and around the world to a huge global audience from her studio in Washington, D.C. Katty has reported on six U.S. presidential elections, Washington politics, financial crashes, world trouble spots, sex scandals, global affairs, and much more. She is a regular contributor and substitute host of Morning Joe on MSNBC. Katty also writes on the art and science of self-assurance in women and girls.

She is co-author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Confidence Code; The Confidence Code for Girls; Womenomics and Living the Confidence Code.