A private practice room for senior leaders
Where every session sharpens your executive communication for the next high-stakes room you walk into.
A closed room for senior leaders and CXOs to train, practice, and prepare their executive communication, away from the audiences who only ever see the finished version of you.
25 years. 500+ executives coached, across boardroom transitions, funding rounds, and high-stakes leadership moments. Trusted by leaders at Hexagon, CG Power, Marks & Spencer, Accel, and ST Telemedia, among others.
20 minutes. Membership begins only after we have confirmed, together, that it's the right fit – for you and for the room.
Speech Samurai Circle · Opens November 1, 2026
The higher you rise,
the less honest feedback you get.
No one interrupts a board update to say the story didn't land.
The room goes quiet, the meeting ends, and you are left guessing.
That's the gap the Speech Samurai Circle exists to close.
What The Circle Actually Is
Every month, you work on one part of executive communication:
The Speaker: how you carry yourself, your voice, your presence under pressure
The Audience: how you read a room and hold its attention
The Content: how you structure a message so it lands and is remembered
Real topics, not abstract theory.
How to open a board presentation so the room leans in.
How to hold your ground in a hostile Q&A.
How to tell a story a room still remembers a week later.
Each month follows the same five-part cycle: you learn the skill live, practice it live, apply it to a real problem you bring to the room, use it in your own week, and walk away with a tool you can reach for again.
This is a cycle you return to every month, built the way real communication skill is actually built, repeated exposure, repeated correction, repeated use. That is what makes it compound over time, instead of fading the way a single workshop does.
What that looks like in practice:
LEARN
One live learning session a month, built around one of three pillars that determine whether a moment lands or falls flat: the Speaker, the Audience, and the Content.
Every month sharpens one of these three, and over time you build command of all three together.
Recorded, so a scheduling conflict never costs you the session.
PRACTICE
A live coaching round where that skill gets tested in real time, in front of peers who are just as senior as you are.
You don't leave with notes – you leave having actually done it, corrected, in the moment.
Two time slots each round, because your calendar doesn't stop for this.
Never recorded, because real practice requires the freedom to get it wrong before you get it right.
SOLVE
A second coaching round each month – but this one isn't scripted.
You bring what's actually in front of you: a challenging board update, a hard conversation you are avoiding, a message you haven't figured out how to land.
This is where the room delivers direct, immediate ROI on whatever you are facing that week.
Also never recorded – because what you bring here is often genuinely confidential.
APPLY
Built-in space between sessions with no live call – deliberately.
The gap exists so you actually use what you learned in your real week, at your real job, before the next round sharpens it further.
Skill only compounds if it gets used, not just discussed.
RESOURCES
A growing library of ready-to-deploy tools – frameworks for a hostile Q&A, structures for the story you need to tell, checklists for the update you are about to walk into.
Not something you study. Something you open five minutes before it matters and walk in prepared.
Who is in the room with you
Coached across boardrooms, not classrooms.
Speech Samurai is led by Zubin Rashid – a public speaking coach for CXOs and senior leaders, with 25 years of experience and 500+ executives coached across industries.
“I do not train speakers. I transform communicators.”
Before there was a room, there was the work. This is what direct, one-on-one coaching with him has produced:
• A CFO came to him wanting to make the jump to CEO. They worked on how he showed up, communicated, and led in the room, and he made the move.
• A CFO wanted to move beyond a single-company mandate. Working on how he presented strategy and held the room at a higher level helped him step into a Group CFO role at a larger organization.
• A CEO was preparing to raise funding and needed his pitch to land with investors who'd heard hundreds of them. They worked on the pitch together, and he raised $400,000.
• A CFO was ready for a bigger stage but needed his presence to match his ambition. After working on that together, he moved into a larger, more senior organization.
• A CTO who once held back in front of the CEO and Board now presents with full command of the room.
• A CHRO worked with him to sharpen how they presented people strategy and led difficult conversations at the leadership table, and got promoted soon after.
• A Harvard graduate and ex-McKinsey professional who had struggled for years to get heard in meetings, got promoted and finally found their voice in the room.
• A Promoter Director who came in unsure of his voice went on to lead his Chamber of Commerce and present in front of state and central government ministers.
This is the coaching Speech Samurai is built on. Identities stay confidential, the same way everything discussed in the room does.
Credentials: Harvard, IIM Calcutta, UC Berkeley, and Symbiosis. Author of Speak with Impact. Featured in The Telegraph, The Statesman, and Hindustan Times. Trusted by leaders at Hexagon, CG Power, Marks & Spencer, Accel, ST Telemedia, and Keka HR, among others. Also the founder of L&D Academy, which has reached 27,500+ learners across 160 countries.
The Room You Are Joining
Two tracks. Running in parallel, every month.
• Fundamentals: Speaker, Audience, and Content, building month over month into real, lasting command
• Real Challenges: the room turned toward whatever's actually on your plate right now, no theory required
Confidentiality isn't a policy here. It's structural. Coaching sessions are never recorded, by design. What gets discussed – a real board tension, a real conflict, a call you are still weighing – stays with the people in the room. Nothing leaves.
Who this is for
Senior leaders and CXOs who know their next high-stakes moment is already on the calendar, and want to walk in sharper than last time – whether that's a board update, a funding pitch, a promotion case, or a room they haven't earned the confidence to own yet.
Who this isn't for
If you are looking for a one-off workshop, a certificate, or public speaking tips in the abstract, this isn't it. This is a working room for people who already have real, specific moments to prepare for.
How joining works
There's no self-checkout here. Every member starts with a discovery call – if it's the right fit, you will receive a private payment link, and once confirmed, you will be personally added to the community.
The Speech Samurai Rank Progression
Every member trains through the same discipline – recognised by time spent in the circle.
Shoshinsha – Beginner's Mind, 0 months. Every senior leader who has ever mastered a room started exactly here.
Monjin – Member of the School, 3 months. Past the first stretch. The room knows you, and you know the rhythm.
Kenshi – Practitioner, 6 months. Enough real reps behind you to trust your own instincts.
Kodachi – Trusted Blade, 1 year. A known, dependable presence – others watch and learn from you without being told to.
Tatsujin – Master of the Craft, 2 years. Command that's no longer being built. It's something you carry.
Shihan – Senior Practitioner, 3 years. Among the most seasoned in the room. Your read is one others defer to.
Kensei – Sword Saint, 4 years. Rare mastery, reserved for the room's most senior voices.
Meijin – Renowned Master, 5 years. A title held by the Legends within the room.
Investment
$99/month $79/month
₹8999/month ₹7299/month*
*Inclusive of GST
One live knowledge-sharing session a month, recorded for you.
Two live coaching rounds a month, flexible time slots.
A closed peer room of senior leaders and CXOs – never recorded.
A growing library of tools and frameworks.
Rank progression that tracks your growth over time.
No long-term contract. No setup fee. Cancel anytime.
The founding cohort is capped at 20, and the founding rate is locked in for as long as you stay.
The room is small. The standard is high.
Speech Samurai isn't for everyone – it's for senior leaders who know their next high-stakes moment is coming, and want to walk into it sharper than the last one.
FAQs
Every member starts with a Discovery Call. If it's the right fit, you'll receive a private payment link. Once your membership is confirmed, you'll be personally added to the Speech Samurai Circle – access begins November 1, 2026.
About three hours a month of live sessions, plus whatever time you choose to put into practice between them. It's built to fit around a demanding calendar, not compete with it.
Only the monthly knowledge-sharing session – so you never lose access if you can't attend live. Coaching sessions are never recorded. What's discussed there stays there.
Each coaching round runs in two time slots, so you have flexibility to attend the one that fits your week.
Senior leaders and CXOs – peers operating at your level, facing the same kind of high-stakes moments you are. The founding cohort is capped at 20, and every member after that joins the room they helped build.
Both. Confident speakers come here to sharpen what already works and catch what no one around them is saying. Those less sure of themselves come here to build that confidence in a room built for exactly that. Either way, you're training alongside peers at your level, not being measured against them.
A short 1:1 call where we look at how you currently communicate under pressure, and identify the one or two things that would sharpen it most. There's no obligation – it's a conversation, not a sales pitch.
Yes. No long-term contract, no lock-in.