Five Minute Expert

How to be a five-minute expert for every room you walk into. You are headed into a meeting, a conference, a client dinner, a cocktail party where the big wigs are talking business. The topic is private equity, or healthcare, or AI, or the deal everyone is talking about, and it is not your world. Five Minute Expert is the friend in the car on the way over: one glanceable Brief per room, five minutes, and you walk in confident. This is not about bluffing. It is about being a quick study on complicated topics so you can engage, make real connections, and have meaningful conversations in the rooms you want to be in, or find yourself in. EVERY BRIEF HAS THE SAME SEVEN BLOCKS 01 The Room Read: what everybody is talking about, layered by time. Yesterday, this week, and this month (the stories people are still bringing up). Each one is a bold lead, one sentence on why the room cares, and the…