Adaptive Communication & Social Styles ⏱ Up to 120 min · Max 12 participants
Adaptive communication skills training
Read the Room — Adaptive Communication & Social Styles ⏱ Up to 120 min · Max 12 participants We all think we communicate well. This session gently proves otherwise — and then fixes it, with a lot of…
Communication Skills Practice
Empathy Exercises
Roleplay / Simulation
Workshop
Description
Read the Room — Adaptive Communication & Social Styles ⏱ Up to 120 min · Max 12 participants
We all think we communicate well. This session gently proves otherwise — and then fixes it, with a lot of laughter along the way. Participants start with a quick self-assessment to discover their dominant communication style: how they naturally send signals, what they assume others understand, and where the gaps tend to appear. We then turn the lens outward — learning to read the room, notice behavioural cues, and decode how the person across from you is actually wired. The real fun begins in the role plays: participants experiment with consciously adapting their style to connect more effectively with someone very different from them. Expect moments of recognition, surprise, and the odd revelation that the "difficult colleague" was just speaking a different language all along.
Benefits
What participants walk away with: A clear understanding of their own communication style and its blind spots. The ability to quickly read others and adapt in real time. Practical tools for reducing friction, improving collaboration, and turning misunderstandings into connection — at work and beyond.
Hosted by Vanessa Defournier
About the Host
I'm Vanessa Defournier, a global leadership coach and facilitator based in Morocco, working worldwide.
I've spent over 20 years helping people and teams connect more deeply — with themselves, with each other, and with what they're actually here to do. I've lived and worked in 10 countries, coached in four languages, and held space for leaders navigating some of the most demanding environments on the planet: from McKinsey consulting rooms to international development institutions tackling climate, inequality, and systemic change.
What draws me to this work isn't the frameworks — it's the moment when something shifts. When a team that was talking past each other suddenly starts listening. When a leader drops the performance and gets honest. When a person realises they already knew what they needed to do, they just hadn't let themselves see it yet.
My style is warm, direct, and deeply human. I create experiences that feel safe enough to be real and engaging enough to matter. People often tell me they came in expecting a workshop and left feeling something more like a reckoning — in the best possible sense.
I bring cultural fluency, emotional depth, and a genuine love for the complexity of people. Whether I'm working in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, the invitation is always the same: show up as you are, and let's do something meaningful with that.
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Rabat, Morocco
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Travel Locations
Brussels ; Paris; Lisbon; Madrid: London; Tunis; additional cost based on real expenses (flights/stay)
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Inspiring room/space; flip charts and markers; speakers; large post its
Past Clients
Prose; Inter American Development Bank; Swagelok; Green Climate Fund;
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