Transcript

Executive presence can change the trajectory of your career. I've got a story to share. Um, early in my career, I watched a senior leader walk into a room, and literally, the entire energy changed when she walked in. Conversations got really quiet. People sat up taller in their chairs. Attention shifted to her at the front of the room. She hadn't really even spoken yet, but she walked in with a certainty and a maturity that she knew she belonged in the space. I spent years of my career trying to figure out what she was doing, because I had actually seen the opposite happen with senior leaders. I'd seen senior leaders walk into a room and kind of command attention by fear, by raising voices, by demanding things of other people, by simply just intimidating. Their presence was intimidating, and I knew that that's not what I wanted to do. And I wanted to be more like the female leader that I had seen them. What I Learned was that real executive presence isn't about volume of what you say. It isn't about being intimidated. Quite honestly, it's the opposite of that. It's about certainty. It's about knowing that you belong in a room. It's about the words that you use to talk about the impact that you have to a broader organization. It's about how you hold yourself when you come into a space. It's intentional, and it is learnable. I work with leaders especially a lot. Of female leaders that have been told in their career that they need to be more assertive, but they don't want to be aggressive, and they certainly don't want to lose who they are in the process of all of this. You do not have to become somebody else to command attention in a room. You just have to become a more certain version of yourself and learn the communication techniques that actually help you command the. The attention in that space. If you would love to work on this, I'd love to work on it with you. Drop into the comment section any questions that you have, and certainly, good luck out there.