STYLE & STRATEGY HUB

You had the read early in the meeting. The recommendation that went out had fewer edges and one more caveat than the one you'd written in your head, and nothing about that looks like a leadership presence problem.

Leaders in this position tend to call it tiredness and put it down to the volume of w...

There is a calculation that runs before an important room, and it does not appear in anyone's workload.

You are preparing for the board update, the client pitch or the keynote. You know the content, and you have known the content for weeks. What takes the extra bandwidth is everything sitting under...

If you lead, you know the morning that goes sideways before it has begun. You stand at the wardrobe with fifteen minutes to spare and nothing feels right, even though it's full of good, capable pieces. There's usually one in there you bought, loved, wore once, and have passed over ever since.

For a...

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...

Most senior leaders have one presence context they’ve invested in carefully: the boardroom. That’s where feedback has landed, where the stakes have felt highest, and where “executive presence” has been referenced as something to develop. And most have done that work.

But building leadership presence...

54% of women leaders face competence-based microaggressions. Learn what the 2025 Gallup research reveals about leadership presence—and how to close the gap.

"There is a gap between your capability and how you are being experienced. That gap is closable."

"How you are experienced matters."

"Hope i...