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Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence
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26 students

Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence

Communicate strategy, evidence, uncertainty, and difficult decisions with clarity, credibility, and ethical influence
Created byDr. Law Payne
Last updated 10/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • Map stakeholder interests, influence, decision rights, and resistance before communicating.
  • Build executive narratives that connect evidence, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decisions.
  • Deliver difficult messages and respond to challenges while preserving credibility and trust.
  • Run decision-focused meetings and assign ownership, follow-through, and communication controls.

Course content

3 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 50m total length

  • The Executive Communication Decision System10:03

    This lecture explains audience decision, message objective, evidence hierarchy, channel choice, credibility. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.

  • Stakeholder Intelligence and Influence Strategy10:08

    This lecture explains power and interest, identity and incentives, resistance, coalition design, ethical boundaries. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.

  • Build the Executive Narrative10:27

    This lecture explains situation, decision tension, recommendation, evidence, action request. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.

  • Present Difficult Messages and Navigate Challenge10:13

    This lecture explains uncertainty, bad news, objections, executive questions, emotional regulation. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.

  • Meetings Follow-Through and Communication Governance10:08

    This lecture explains decision records, commitments, feedback, communication standards, development roadmap. Students apply the ideas to a realistic business decision, examine common failure modes, and complete a practical exercise they can use immediately.

Requirements

  • No coding experience is required.
  • A willingness to apply the frameworks to a real or realistic business situation.
  • Access to common productivity software is helpful but not required.

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.


Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence gives professionals a structured system to communicate complex decisions with greater clarity and influence while preserving evidence, trust, and stakeholder agency.


The course is designed for executives, managers, consultants, project leaders, doctoral students, and professionals presenting consequential recommendations. It moves beyond disconnected tips and tool demonstrations. Students learn how to define the business decision, organize evidence, design a practical workflow, evaluate quality, preserve human accountability, and connect activity to measurable results.


The continuing case follows a transformation leader who has strong analysis but repeatedly loses executive support because the message is dense, the recommendation is unclear, and stakeholder concerns surface too late. Every lecture includes a management framework, application guidance, quality controls, and an assignment learners can use in an organization, client engagement, career, or business.


Dr. Law Payne combines doctoral-level leadership education with substantial entrepreneurial, marketing, and teaching experience. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration specializing in Organizational Leadership and Development, a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, a master’s degree in Business, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing. His professional experience includes nine-figure entrepreneurship, published work reaching more than one million copies, and growth leadership involving more than one billion dollars in managed sales.

Who this course is for:

  • Executives, managers, consultants, project leaders, doctoral students, and professionals presenting consequential recommendations.
  • Professionals who want business value and responsible implementation rather than surface-level hype.
  • Professionals who want a structured, evidence-based approach instead of disconnected tips or tool demonstrations.
  • Leaders and learners who want to preserve human accountability while using artificial intelligence.

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