Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book

Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book

I first met Jodi-Ann Burey at a book launch in Seattle a couple of years ago. A mutual friend introduced the two of us and mentioned that Jodi-Ann was working on a book based on her viral TEDx talk about authenticity in the workplace. In the midst of the after-reading scrum, as people bumped into us, pulling on their coats and making dinner plans, I asked her, “How’s the writing going?” Jodi-Ann looked back at me with eyes full of a very specifi…