Executive Presence
retain your top talent
We use world-class coaching and science-backed solutions - Lead from North™ - to build the long-term mindsets, skills, and behaviors your leaders need to be ready for all challenges.
The promise of Executive Presence
People think that the results from their work should speak for themselves, but they don’t. You have to know how to promote yourself, your results, your team, your project, while being authentic and being able to read and navigate the political landscape like an Everest sherpa.
How you want to come across and how others perceive is often very different, and it’s in the space between those two things that we do most of our work.
Performing brilliantly at a senior level requires excellent communication skills, a commanding presence and supreme credibility. This Director to Executive Director program gives you the tools to lead with impact and gravitas.
What is Executive Presence?
Participants in the Executive Presence program draw on their personal style and learn to present themselves in ways that build effective relationships with clients, senior leadership teams, colleagues, and their team. The interactive nature of the program also facilitates cross-functional community-building for participants, which is essential for a global company.
This workshop is experiential and participants learn to:
Distill and translate deep expertise into succinct, compelling, relevant messages that influence business decisions.
Exhibit poise, adaptability, and confidence during stressful situations, including strategic presentations, client interactions, and questions from executive leaders.
Speak with confidence in an English-speaking company, when English is your second or third language.
Inspire and motivate high productivity and well-being on your team.
Deepen relationships, even in the absence of face-to-face interaction.
Authentically build or repair trust and reputation.
Why do you need Executive Presence?
You need Executive Presence to build warm, lasting cross-functional relationships in an increasingly virtual world, to be seen as investing in your pipeline of leaders, and to elevate the impact your leaders have on the business and with their teams.
Our ability to demystify and break down the concepts and principles of Executive Presence into tangible, tweakable components that can be measured has put us in front of senior leadership in Fortune 1000’s and business schools for the last 18 years.
Highly experiential, grounded in neuroscience and the psychology of leadership, our programs are deeply engaging and highly practical. We tailor our content to your leaders and the business challenges they face so that they have concrete strategies and measurable actions to continue to deepen the learning post program. All of which is in service to participants transforming, and building greater confidence, gravitas, and credibility.
Who is Executive Presence for?
Executive Presence is craved for by ambitious leaders who want to be perceived as ready for the next level. If promotion is not imminent then this program is considered a meaningful and valuable investment of their time to prepare for the next level. It’s equally valuable for leaders about to be promoted or who have just been promoted.
Our off-the-shelf program is designed specifically for the Director level; Associate Director through to Executive Director. And we can tailor our content to more senior levels.
If you head up Talent Development, are a HRBP, or a VP-SVP wanting to develop your director level or your women leaders, then we have a proven track record delivering seamlessly integrated, flag-ship programs each year for our clients that support the performance evaluation process. We also deliver memorable, stand alone programs.
What they say
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How we help leaders develop Executive Presence
Develop your directors
The case at a leading Biotech Pharma
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Top-talent leaders at the Director and Executive Director level were eager for advancement and although their expertise and results were impressive, many were not ready to perform at the next level in terms of their maturity to lead at the next level.
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Influence, inspire, motivate, and create followership even when virtual
Develop authentic executive presence
Sell ideas with power and passion
Listen to understand the audience, tailor messages, & build stronger relationships
Deliver succinct, clear, and articulate messages
Exhibit poise, adaptability, and confidence during stressful situations, including strategic presentations and client interactions
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The Executive Presence has become a flag-ship program that HRBPs use to further develop top-talent. The program is delivered to 60 top-talent leaders in science each year, and is timed to be delivered after mid-year reviews. Leaders now have a well-regarded, wait-listed development option for top talent leaders which is seen as a company-wide recognized stepping stone to advancement to the next level.
Develop women leaders
The case at a Digital Tech company
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Top-talent women leaders had lost motivation to advance. The company wanted to reignite their ambition as well as showcase new, clearer paths of career advancement for them.
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Candidly discuss the statistics surrounding women leaders in tech
Co-create replicable approaches to the challenges they face
Build community in ways that matter to women advancing
Position themselves to build credibility and their brand
Create a sustainable plan for their personal resilience
Demonstrate confidence and poise even when nervous and getting push back
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The Executive Presence program for Women Leaders was testament to the company’s commitment to demonstrating Strength in Diversity of Thought as an ongoing strategy for the organization as well as an ongoing strategy for advancing top-talent women leaders. The annual Executive Presence program was a cog in the process of cultural change within the company that ensured that advancing women leaders was not just a box to be checked that year, or a fleeting trend for the company.