Registration
OPEN!
For Senior HR professionals who want to lead international meetings with the same authority and ease as in their native language.
Speak Up HR:
Your HR English Voice, Unlocked.
Stop sounding like a beginner when you’re actually an expert.
Master the high-stakes English required to lead meetings, deliver feedback, and handle spontaneous board-level questions without translating in your head or the Sunday-night dread.
5 live online trainings
in a small group
Individual AI practice
24/7
Video mini lessons
every week
Does this sound familiar?
You’re sitting in the 10:00 AM global strategy meeting.
You have a brilliant insight about the new retention policy. One that would solve the very problem the CEO is complaining about.
You open your mouth to speak, but your heart starts hammering against your ribs.
You start mentally translating "turnover" and "engagement" from your native language, worrying if your grammar sounds like a textbook or a professional.
The window of opportunity closes. Someone else makes a point half as good as yours, and the meeting moves on.
You spend the rest of the hour on mute, frustrated that your years of HR expertise got lost behind a language barrier you can’t seem to break.
Stop letting your English mask your expertise.
Imagine leading a 60-minute budget discussion with the CFO or a high-stakes salary negotiation in English without needing a script or feeling exhausted afterward.
No more Sunday fears: You stop spending your weekends obsessively rehearsing potential meeting questions.
Speak with the "expert" voice: You use HR terminology to deliver tough feedback or negotiate compensation packages with with the right balance of diplomacy and assertiveness. Even when unexpected questions come up.
Use your influence: During annual compensation reviews, you advocate for your team's budget using persuasive language that makes the CFO see you as a strategic partner, not just a "translator" for the local office.
What do you learn in Speak Up HR and how?
Diplomacy & Assertiveness
We identify where your "politeness" habits makes you sound unsure and unclear.
You will learn to maintain authority without loosing empathy.
"Safe-Fail" Environment
We dive into high-intensity simulations of your actual work life: salary negotiations, performance reviews, budget discussions and more.
You train holding your ground when you hear a "hard no" until it is natural for you to be direct.
Calm Authority
We use real-time feedback and physical grounding techniques to lower your heart rate during spontaneous questions.
You will learn to slow down, process the information, and respond with the calm authority of an HR partner rather than the anxiety of a language student.
Speak Up HR is NOT a language course.
It is a high-intensity role-play training.
About me
Hi, I'm Alena Konecna.
For over 7 years, my core work has been facilitation
of cross-cultural dialogue. I build high-trust, structured spaces
where people have difficult conversations on sensitive topics.
I’m not here to grade your grammar.
I’m here to give you your voice back. Especially in tough
conversations, feedback discussions, and negotiations.
Why HR leaders trust me:
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I share my facilitation skills to train you to handle unexpected questions and board pushback without panic.
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Zero textbooks. We don't talk about hobbies (unless we practise small talk). We train real HR scenarios: salary negotiations, performance reviews, and board updates.
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4+ years of experience with training HR professionals in global corporate environments.
“I created Speak Up HR because I want professionals to stop underestimating themselves and live up to their potential.”
What will you get in Speak Up HR?
5 × 60-minute live group trainings
Train realistic HR role-plays. Salary negotiations, performance feedback, budget discussionwith the CFO.
2 - 4 people in a group - personalised feedback.
Even if you miss a session, you’ll get recordings and notes.
AI speaking trainer
Practise anytime with AI speaking trainer.
Gemini, only free Gmail account is needed.
Dedicated AI trainer for each week.
Weekly mini video lessons
Learn communication tools and expressions through weekly 10-minutes video lessons.
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express your thoughts clearly
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handle disagreement and refusal
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handle emotions (yours and other people's)
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manage sensitive discussions with calm confidence
Program investment:
7 700 CZK (321 EUR)
Next step:
Fill out the form below to secure your spot.
Choose ALL the groups that would work for your schedule. If none of the times work, I might open another group if there is a match with other people.
Within a few hours, I will send you the payment details.
The registration closes on 17 September.