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Signature Training

Executive Presence Training

Command attention, communicate with authority, and lead with the kind of confidence that gets you taken seriously at every level. Executive Presence is the ability to control how you're perceived before you say a word and how you hold a room long after you've spoken. This is the training that makes it learnable.

Format

From 90 min to a full-day

Group Size

5 – 50 participants

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About This Training

Executive presence is one of the most frequently cited reasons leaders are promoted and one of the least frequently developed. It is not about being extroverted, polished, or performing a version of leadership that doesn’t feel authentic. It is about showing up with intention: knowing how you come across, being in control of the signals you send, and communicating in a way that builds trust and confidence in the people around you.

This training gives participants a clear-eyed understanding of what presence actually is — broken into specific, observable behaviours that can be practised and developed. Participants identify where they are today, where the gaps are, and exactly what to work on to close them. The focus throughout is on authenticity: building a presence that is distinctly theirs, not a borrowed idea of what a leader should look like.

Every session is built around your participants’ real contexts — the rooms they need to own, the stakeholders they need to convince, and the moments where how they show up matters most.

Choose Your Format

Built around
your leaders and schedule

Virtual modules

90 minutes

A focused, single-topic virtual session that delivers one core executive presence skill — complete with live practice and immediate application.

Choose from 4 standalone topic modules

Live practice

Techniques for virtual executive presence (GVC)

Personal presence challenge to apply immediately

Can be booked as a series of sessions

Best for

Remote or hybrid teams, bite-sized learning programmes, and organisations looking to embed presence skills over time across a series.

Half-day intensive

3.5 hours

A high-impact session delivering the core executive presence toolkit. Participants leave with immediately applicable frameworks and are confident in their shifts in presence.

The Impact Gap: Influence vs. Impact

Decoding Presence: Mehrabian's Formula

The Silent Signal: Body language mastery

The Executive Voice: Vocal foundations

Personal presence audit + action plan

Best for

Emerging leaders, managers stepping into more senior visibility, and professionals preparing for high-stakes opportunities.

RECOMMENDED

Full-day deep dive

8 hours

Participants go deeper into every dimension of presence with multiple practice rounds and a personal leadership brand they can articulate and embody from day one.

All half-day modules, extended and deepened

Structured Impact: ARC Framework + SHARP storytelling

PowerPoint Karaoke: presence under pressure

AI-assisted pitch enhancement with Gemini

Filmed final showcase with self-audit methodology

Reading the room: virtual vs in-person tactics

Best for

Note

We maintain a 1:20 facilitator-to-participant ratio across all formats so every person gets individual attention, meaningful practice time, and coaching that's specific to them. All materials and a personal executive presence guide are included.

Outcomes

What participants leave with

01

A clear presence signature

Know exactly how you come across today and the specific behaviours that will have the biggest impact on how you are perceived

02

Physical and vocal presence skills

Control of body language, stillness, voice, pace, and eye contact — the nonverbal signals that communicate authority before a word is spoken

03

Clarity and conviction under pressure

Structured thinking under pressure, confident delivery in high-stakes rooms, and the skill to hold an audience’s attention

04

Gravitas in difficult moments

Composure, measured responses, and confident recovery when conversations get hard, audiences push back, or things don’t go to plan

05

A personal leadership brand

A clear, authentic articulation of who you are as a leader — the impression you want to create and the reputation you are actively building

06

A personalised action plan

A written, prioritised plan that identifies the two or three highest-leverage shifts for each participant with concrete next steps to apply

“I feel so much more prepared to achieve my goals after this session!”

Kaori Ishige

Marketing Manager, Databricks

Ready to help your team show up the way they deserve to?

Most groups book 4–6 weeks in advance. Get in touch to check availability and discuss the right format for your team.