
Explore executive presence and the diversity dilemma by learning why you will not reach your full potential without sponsorship and support from others, and how to cultivate key relationships.
Discover how executive presence unlocks your full potential by leveraging your skills, ensuring your ideas are heard, and positioning you as a leader who earns opportunities.
Decode the shell game of career advancement and build executive presence by turning ambiguity into identifiable steps, so you move beyond shifting reasons and gain tangible leadership progress.
Uncover the true essence of executive presence as the specific feeling people sense about your ability to carry out tasks. Move beyond doing to understanding how presence signals trust.
Cultivate executive presence by nurturing the state of being that inspires confident leadership. Show presence when calm, capable leadership under pressure outshines appearance or title in any situation.
Explore the first degree of the six states of being that unlock executive presence: being proactive, a bias for action that anticipates future problems and inspires confidence in uncertain outcomes.
Develop executives' presence by embracing resolute leadership, staying the course in uncertainty while remaining open to better options. Ruth Bader Ginsburg exemplifies resoluteness, inspiring confidence as a steady, determined leader.
Develop equanimity by staying present and calibrating perspective under pressure, enabling calm leadership, influencing others, and demonstrating the third degree of executive presence.
Cultivate equanimity and stillness to enhance executive presence, pausing to reflect before acting in chaos, shaping proactive, purposeful leadership.
Be engaged—the fifth degree of executive presence—where leader and team actions mutually influence each other, forming interlocking gears that move the group beyond the sum of its parts.
Explore how confidence, the sixth degree of executive presence, blends feeling with pure action to lead without doubt amid tough challenges, and its contagious impact on leadership and diversity.
Explore implicit leadership theory and the diversity dilemma, revealing strategies to leverage diversity, overcome the leadership mold, and turn diversity into an advantage for executive presence.
Build your club to shift perceptions when you don’t match the majority image of a leader, leveraging a 25 percent tipping point to flip minority support into majority influence.
Choose your identity to displace stereotype threat and sharpen focus in high-performance situations, while recognizing that embracing your authentic self can backfire.
Crack the code of authenticity by increasing connection to turn authenticity into an asset. Learn how authenticity plus connection beats disconnection and fits diverse workplaces.
Explore how introverts can demonstrate executive presence by listening deeply, synthesizing ideas, guiding energy, and leading with inclusive, results-focused practice in both in-person and virtual settings.
Discover how to project virtual executive presence by leading to advance the meeting's goal. Introverts can excel by guiding discussions, involving others, and steering away from unhelpful topics.
Access resources for continuous improvement in executive presence, including videos, podcasts, articles on diversity topics, leadership books, and 21-day practice guides, plus an active professional community.
Why is Executive Presence one of the most sought-after skills?
It's not why you might think. It's not about admiration or owning the room. The real value is how Executive Presence helps you gain access to more opportunities to advance your career. In other words, Executive Presence sets the ceiling for your success. But how do you get it?
Copying others piecemeal doesn't work. You end up as a sort of inauthentic, Franken-xecutive. Ignoring others to "just do you" is also a losing strategy. You end up excluded from the inner circle and are left to ponder your sins in career purgatory. So what works?
We are all diverse in ways that are seen and unseen. The question is, "how do you leverage your diversity?" In every organization and in the hearts and minds of its people is a prevailing mental model of a leader. Very few people fit this model to a T, so most are faced with a choice. Do you sacrifice your diversity to be viewed as more leader-like or do you embrace your diversity at the risk of being viewed less leader-like?
This is the Diversity Dilemma.
This course provides two powerful breakthroughs:
How you can generate Executive Presence - in any situation and any organization
How to handle the Diversity Dilemma without sacrificing your diversity or success
Do you ever wonder if "being you" is hurting your career? Have you ever suspected (or been told) that it was your lack of Executive Presence and not your performance that was limiting your career? If so, join us as we explore how you can not only command any room, but take command of your career - all while being yourself and not someone else.
I see you and your power. Now let's make sure everyone else does!