Samara Bay is a sought-after speech coach, author, and speaker whose coaching clients include top actors in Hollywood, C-suite execs and thought leaders, candidates for U.S. Congress, celebrities and high school girls. Her debut book, Permission to Speak (Crown, Penguin Random House), is slated for early 2023 and her work on rethinking the sound of power has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, CBS Sunday Morning, Tamron Hall, Slate, Create & Cultivate and Jezebel. She lives in Los Angeles, with her husband, son and dog, Moxie.

Samara Bay is a sought-after speech coach and thought leader on a mission to change how power sounds. Her clients include top actors in Hollywood, C-suite execs and thought leaders, candidates for U.S. Congress, celebrities, activists, diplomats, moms returning to work, and high school girls who want to make a difference. Behind the scenes, she helps leaders and rising leaders on the cusp of something big—who need to speak with confidence and joy in a voice they recognize as their own to truly make sh*t happen.

Samara stands for a new sound of power—because what power has traditionally sounded like isn’t working for us and fortunately, it doesn’t have to. In her debut book Permission to Speak (Crown, Penguin Random House, available in bookstores 2.7.23), Samara shares her tried-and-true tools, moving stories, and hope: when we change what power sounds like, we change who has it. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC’s “Know Your Value,” The Tamron Hall Show, Netflix is a Joke, Slate, and Jezebel.

Samara has partnered with Moveon.org, The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, and Microsoft, and run workshops for corporations, women’s organizations, foundations, and universities.

In Hollywood, she’s been hired by everyone from Marvel to Netflix to help movie stars integrate good acting with good accents. TV and film clients include: Gal Gadot, Pierce Brosnan, Penelope Cruz, Ricky Martin, Rachel McAdams, Terry Crews, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ruth Negga, and Rosie O'Donnell.

She has a BA in English from Princeton and an MFA in acting from Brown. She received media training from Al Gore’s climate team, improv training from UCB, and speech training from world-renowned teachers at Juilliard, The RSC, ACT, The Public Theater, and Yale. She sits on the advisory boards of Young Entertainment Activists (YEA!), DemocraShe, and the world’s first community-led accent app, Spikizi. Samara lives on the eastside of Los Angeles, with her husband, son, and dog, Moxie.