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The boardroom outfit works. The supplier coffee meeting doesn't. The corridor conversation doesn't either. Many women in leadership have figured out the formal version of presence and never been given a reason to think about everywhere else. The impact is high, the presence outside the formal se
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Women in leadership face a specific and under-discussed problem. They have the credentials, they deliver results, and they hold genuine expertise, yet the way people experience them in a room does not match the leader they have actually become. That friction between internal reality and external per...
This time of year, every leader you know is running audits. End of financial year is closing in, strategy reviews are landing in calendars, budgets are being stress-tested line by line. There's a whole language for it: variance analysis, capability mapping, operating effectiveness reviews.
The one ...
If you've ever sat in a meeting where the loudest voice carried the room while yours got passed over, you've already met the assumption this article is built on. The story most women in leadership are told about visibility is that being seen requires being bolder, brighter, louder, taking up more sp...
There's a kind of leader who has her work presence completely sorted. The boardroom is figured out, the executive meetings run cleanly, she knows what to wear, what to say, how to hold the room. And then she walks into a school event, a client dinner, a networking room she hasn't been in before,
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Tired of hearing 'executive presence', and you may or may not need it? The main executive presence framework most leadership programs still teach or coach on was built on a particular premise: that there is one consistent professional self, that presence is built around that self, and that being ex...
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