Executive presence: is it relevant in 2023?
Laura Weldy, PCC
Leadership Development Coach for high-potential working women | Corporate training and facilitator | Success planning and leadership development for professional women
Executive presence is the most pervasive lie of the workplace. It's rooted in the idea that there is one way to be an effective leader - that only those who are charming, disarming, outspoken and wildly confident will be able to lead their companies and teams to success.
The reality is that any type of personality can lead. EP in 2023 is not about your surface level traits but about your ability to wield influence on people around you.
Can you...
All of these leadership tasks require the self-awareness to influence the people around you. And the good news for women leaders is that this turn toward influence sets many of us up for success.
Tomorrow evening I'm hosting an encore of my most popular class: Your Most Influential Year Ever. I'll break down exactly why women leaders often struggle with the executive presence concept, how companies weaponize this desired trait against women, and the three most common influence styles I see in the high performing women I coach.