Executive Presence Tune-Up
You’re in a leadership position and want to be heard and stand out.
To have positive and lasting impact.
Executive presence is about inspiring confidence and greatness in others.
And it’s a skill, not a character trait – so it’s learnable and can be developed.
Close the excellence gaps in your communication skills.
Depending on where you’re starting from, you may only need small behavioural and mindset tweaks.
In fact, small nudges often make the most difference to whether you get the opportunities available to you – or they go to someone else.
Here are just 3 excellence gaps that you might recognise
Close these, and you’ll have a much greater ability to inspire confidence in your stakeholders. For example, your:
team | direct reports | peers | senior leaders | board members.
1. Performance under stress.
How well do you present under stress? When you’re under-prepared, over-worked, or thrown off in the moment?
Do others see you as in control, prepared, composed? Or do you fray at the edges, waffle or just know that your tone or energy is ‘off’?
Maybe you ‘rehearse failure’ or struggle with negative self-talk or ‘loop-of-doom’ thinking.
Or want to be more adaptable under pressure.
2. Articulating a clear vision.
You may have a brilliantly crafted vision in your mind – how well can you articulate it (especially under pressure)?
- That moment in the corridor with a senior executive.
- During lunch with influential stakeholders.
- At a strategy session or collaborative offsite.
It doesn’t matter how good your message is if you can’t communicate it well.
3. Levels of self-awareness.
How do you come across to others? Do you know what impact you have?
How’s your tone, body language, word choices?
And the higher up you go, the harder it is to get ‘real’, constructive (not vague “you were great!”) feedback.
This is where working with a coach – an external, expert pair of eyes – makes all the difference. Someone who’s trained to give you feedback that moves you forwards, fast.
Just 4 of the common challenges that my clients bring
Repetitive visual or verbal habits
Examples: Swaying, using filler words like ‘um’, repeated use of the same word or gesture, and so on.
You may not notice them, and trust me, other people aren’t always telling you!
Potential Consequences: the listener’s focus is more on these than your messages. It’s distracting. Your habits may also impact your own processing ability.
Speaking confidence – low
Possible Results: low presence, energy and ‘reach’ to your listener or audience. Delivery at top speed, mind-blanks, low projection, “shrink wrapping” of mind or body – usually both.
Potential Consequences: People either don’t understand or don’t engage with your messages & aims. Confidence challenges may result in low influence and persuasion (not always).
Speaking confidence – high
Possible Result: Experience, strong confidence and knowledge depth are important. They can, however, lead to “winging it” or thinking that “speaking from the heart” is always enough. It may not be.
Potential Consequences: You may lack structure or clarity, give too much information, or go off at tangents hard to come back from. Some people may also struggle to relate to you.
Speaking contrast – low in linguistic style
Similar vocal style and word choices create ‘sameness’. Our brains are wired to notice change, and it’s vital if you want to have impact. Low contrast = low engagement.
Potential Consequences: listener engagement dies, and you probably won’t get it back. Lose attention, lose the opportunity to influence and persuade.
How Executive Presence Tune-up works
Close the excellence gaps in your public speaking, presenting or general communication. For example, skills gaps in:
- Meetings, internal or external.
- Panel moderation or participation.
- Interviews including podcasts.
- Videos.
- Boardrooms.
- Networking events.
- Conferences: keynotes or breakout sessions.
- Workshops
We’ll target whatever areas are missing, letting you down…or just need a tweak.
The details:
- Pre-coaching fast start 30 minutes
- 1 day intensive if time-pressured OR 6 x 1-hour sessions
- Online or in person (Melbourne)
- Includes resources: videos, templates
- Access to me between sessions
- Post-event review and wrap-up 30 minutes
Refine and sharpen your existing speaking or communication skills.
Investment $4,800 + GST.
Can also be paid in 3 monthly instalments.
What my clients are saying
Sarah is a true professional who knows her craft inside and out. I highly recommend her to anyone seeking to learn or improve their public speaking engagements.
Mark Saba
CEO - Lexigo
Sarah was exceptional to work with – I highly recommend her public speaking coaching services. I worked with her for both general speaking and specific interview preparation and she was brilliant.
She has an incredible way of getting straight to productive feedback in a kind and realistic way. Her suggestions are both extremely intelligent and individualised to personal style which is very difficult to come by.
I cannot speak more highly of her and I’m so grateful for her talents. I will be working with her again!
Clara McCormack
Founder, Culture Hacker High Performance Specialist
One of the best investments I’ve made this year was working with Sarah. Over 3- 4 months, we focussed on building my confidence and skills I could use in any form of communication.
When we started, I lacked structure. I meandered through conversations/presentations due to self-doubt and not knowing my speaking habits.
Through constructive and honest feedback, Sarah guided me in removing the blocks in speaking up and sharing my ideas. I highly recommend Sarah to anyone looking to improve their communication and presentation skills in and outside of the workplace!
Nilofar Nazeri
Senior Consultant - National Australia Bank
Over 6 sessions in 6 weeks we covered a wide range of areas which have benefited me professionally and personally.
Using Sarah’s techniques, I confidently completed not only one but TWO presentations during the conference – I volunteered for the second!
Considering I have previously had significant anxiety around Public Speaking and was able to transform both my skills and mindset in such a short period of time is still quite unbelievable to me, and I honestly can’t thank or recommend Sarah enough.
Adam Smith
Director Client Services APAC, Park Place Technologies