Confident Expressions: Tools for Impactful Communication
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 150
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Confident Expression: Tools for Impactful Communication is a practical, empowering, and culturally responsive guide to understanding and applying the art of communication in everyday life, relationships, and public platforms. Rooted in both foundational theory and lived experience, this textbook equips readers with tools to communicate with clarity, purpose, and presence.
This text begins with the essential elements of communication, laying the groundwork for how we send, receive, and interpret messages in a complex world. From there, readers will explore the role of mindfulness in becoming intentional communicators, and learn how to listen empathetically, a skill too often overlooked in traditional communication training.
The text dives deep into verbal and nonverbal communication, emphasizing how our words, tone, body language, and silence work together to shape meaning. It also introduces a critical cultural perspective, challenging students to reflect on how identity, power, privilege, and systems of oppression influence how we communicate and how we are heard.
Chapters on performance, storytelling, and public speaking move students beyond theory into action, offering opportunities to find their voice, share their truths, and speak powerfully in front of others. Whether students are writing an informative speech, practicing persuasive delivery, or telling a personal narrative, they are encouraged to approach communication as a form of personal and social empowerment.
With practical assignments, reflective prompts, and real-world applications, Confident Expression supports students in becoming not just better speakers, but more conscious, compassionate, and confident communicators.
Amber Klee holds two master’s degrees—one in Communication, where she focused on interpersonal communication, performance, and critical cultural studies, and another in Africana Studies, where her research explored gender dynamics in the blues music tradition and the blues as an inherently Afrofuturistic form. She also earned a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, examining media depictions of Black trans women. Amber has taught a range of courses including Introduction to Speech Communication, Speech for Business and the Professions, Public Speaking, Giants of the Arts, Academic Writing, and Living the Theater. She is the author of a textbook on confident communication and is currently writing a book of personal essays about grief and forgiveness. Her work has been published in Black Bear, The Memoirist, The Age of Empathy, and Bouncin and Behavin.
Confident Expression: Tools for Impactful Communication is a practical, empowering, and culturally responsive guide to understanding and applying the art of communication in everyday life, relationships, and public platforms. Rooted in both foundational theory and lived experience, this textbook equips readers with tools to communicate with clarity, purpose, and presence.
This text begins with the essential elements of communication, laying the groundwork for how we send, receive, and interpret messages in a complex world. From there, readers will explore the role of mindfulness in becoming intentional communicators, and learn how to listen empathetically, a skill too often overlooked in traditional communication training.
The text dives deep into verbal and nonverbal communication, emphasizing how our words, tone, body language, and silence work together to shape meaning. It also introduces a critical cultural perspective, challenging students to reflect on how identity, power, privilege, and systems of oppression influence how we communicate and how we are heard.
Chapters on performance, storytelling, and public speaking move students beyond theory into action, offering opportunities to find their voice, share their truths, and speak powerfully in front of others. Whether students are writing an informative speech, practicing persuasive delivery, or telling a personal narrative, they are encouraged to approach communication as a form of personal and social empowerment.
With practical assignments, reflective prompts, and real-world applications, Confident Expression supports students in becoming not just better speakers, but more conscious, compassionate, and confident communicators.
Amber Klee holds two master’s degrees—one in Communication, where she focused on interpersonal communication, performance, and critical cultural studies, and another in Africana Studies, where her research explored gender dynamics in the blues music tradition and the blues as an inherently Afrofuturistic form. She also earned a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, examining media depictions of Black trans women. Amber has taught a range of courses including Introduction to Speech Communication, Speech for Business and the Professions, Public Speaking, Giants of the Arts, Academic Writing, and Living the Theater. She is the author of a textbook on confident communication and is currently writing a book of personal essays about grief and forgiveness. Her work has been published in Black Bear, The Memoirist, The Age of Empathy, and Bouncin and Behavin.