Category: Executive Presence

Are You Ready to Level-Up Your Professionalism?

If you are like me, now and then, you come to a fork in the road, and you know it’s time to decide you are either going to settle and this is as good as it gets – OR it’s you have to decide that it’s time to level up. You know my perspective on…
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Are You Too Young to be an Executive?

Are you too young to be a CEO or a member of the executive team? I know this is a thought that a lot of people have about themselves when they are rising in an industry. In this episode, I’ll give you some of the usual criteria used for selecting executive-level leaders and various scenarios…
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What if you Succeed?

Cross that goal line with the ball in hand You have a dream; it’s so big that you never thought you’d reach it.  Not in a million years.  The thing is, you have been going down the path toward that goal for a few years, and believe it or not, it seems like your BIG goal is…
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Why Women Leaders Make Extraordinary Executives

Why Women Leaders Make Extraordinary Executives

Even though the number of women leaders who make it all the way to CEO are incredibly small The current reality Despite many studies that suggest women rate very high for traits that make them excellent leaders, and for many traits, they rate even higher than most men, there are very few women leaders who…
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How to Stop Crying and Screaming: Control the ripple effect of your emotions

How often do you DECIDE to react negatively to those around you? I’ve see you out there, when I am out and about, at a restaurant, at the grocery store, at the airport.  I saw it just this afternoon.  I stopped to get a coffee at a café near the beach, and there was a…
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What is Executive Presence?

According to Suzanne Bates, author of the book, All the Leader You Can Be, “Executive presence is the ability of the leader to engage, align, inspire, and move people to act.”  Sylvia Ann Hewlitt, the author of Executive Presence, defines it as: “A measure of image: whether you signal to others that you are star…
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