The Blog.
Explore stories, insights and confidence-building tips to help you find your voice.
Confidence Isn’t Something You Do
One thing that has come up repeatedly in my coaching conversations recently is confidence. What strikes me is how often very capable, experienced people believe confidence is something they need to do. They tell themselves they need to prepare more, think more, polish more, or rehearse more. If they can just get the slides perfect […]
Read the post
Executive Presence Isn’t Polish, It’s Trust
I recently read a Fast Company article describing executive presence as “the new currency of business growth.” It struck me because it names something that comes up constantly in my work with senior leaders, even if people rarely say it quite that directly.
Read the post
When Your Job Shakes, You Don’t Have To
In a world of restructures, “strategic realignments” and never-ending change, it’s no surprise that so many high-achieving professionals feel like the ground beneath them is never fully stable.
Read the post
The latest blog posts
One thing that has come up repeatedly in my coaching conversations recently is confidence. What strikes me is how often very capable, experienced people believe confidence is something they need to do. They tell themselves they need to prepare more, think more, polish more, or rehearse more. If they can just get the slides perfect […]
Read the post
Many people think executive presence is something you put on. A more polished version of yourself. A more corporate voice. Better slides. More confidence. More charisma. I do not think that is what executive presence is at all. Some of the most impressive senior leaders I have worked with are often the least showy in […]
Read the post
I do not mean whether you sound loud, polished or “posh”. I mean whether, when you speak in a meeting, promotion panel, board presentation or executive interview, people experience you as someone operating at that level. This is where a lot of very capable Directors and Senior Leaders quietly lose authority. Not because they lack […]
We spend a lot of time preparing the visible parts of a presentation: the slides, the structure, the talking points, and the data. All of that matters, of course, but in the age of AI, where polished words can be generated in seconds, I think the real difference is becoming much more human. People are […]
Read the post
Read the post
