615: Why Most Leaders Lack Executive Presence and Completely Misread the People Around Them
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615: Why Most Leaders Lack Executive Presence and Completely Misread the People Around Them

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 19, 202626 min

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if the biggest advantage in your next executive meeting isn't what you say—but what you notice? Most leaders focus so much on delivering the perfect message that they miss the valuable information happening all around them. In this fascinating conversation, Laura Camacho sits down with former undercover inte...

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What if the biggest advantage in your next executive meeting is not what you say, but what you notice? Welcome back to Speak Up, the number one ranked business communication podcast, where we help high-performing introvert leaders, including you social introverts, turn your ideas into influence and improve business outcomes, because being brilliant

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does not automatically make you influential. I am your host, Laura Camacho, your career accelerator, executive presence strategist, and godmother. And by the end of my conversation

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with intelligence expert, Dawn Weber, you're gonna know how intelligence professionals read body language, voice patterns, and behavioral changes to better understand people in high stakes conversations.

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