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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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Most people assume authority is built in the obvious moments: the presentation, the keynote, the board meeting, the panel. Those moments do matter, of course, but I don’t think they are where authority is most strongly shaped. More often, it is won or lost in the less glamorous, less rehearsed moments that happen around them: […]
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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. By the time someone reaches Director or Senior Leader level, technical competence […]
