Coaching
Executive presence coaching
Develop your unique executive presence through proven and powerful communication strategy and technique.
Laurie reads every inquiry personally and generally replies within one business day.
Your leadership power and potential improve from meeting to meeting, as you apply the techniques practiced in your own business situations. Presence is a named subset of the Presence26™ System, the twenty-six competencies this practice teaches from. If the message itself is also part of the problem, executive communication coaching is the broader program and probably the better place to start.
Clients succeed in:
- Leading productive and inclusive meetings
- Presenting to executives and investors
- Team coaching
- Appearing on panels and in the media
- Delivering messages with confidence
- Controlling stressful situations and conflict
Executive presence coaching, made concrete
Our programs are designed for your unique goals and schedule. The format includes:
- Initial complimentary consult
- Assessment and goal plan
- 360 feedback if desired
- Customized sessions and action items
- Video and audio feedback
- Ongoing measurement of progress
Presence work fits naturally alongside media training and public speaking coaching, where the same habits are visible at higher magnification.
Who this is for
If this is for you
Maybe you have had feedback, or get the feeling that you are overlooked in meetings. This is the coaching that answers that question. You will receive:
- A concrete read of what people are responding to
- Video review, so the evidence is yours
- A handful of specific techniques, practiced until they stick
- Ten to twenty one-hour sessions, or fewer for a targeted piece of work
If this is for your team
Did you know that presence and communication skills are mentioned more than any other competency in 360 reviews? Executive presence training in groups gives your cohort the techniques, confidence and shared language that will make your team a role model for others — and makes your team stand out in the best possible way.
- Three to six ninety-minute group sessions
- Peer practice and feedback
- Individual sessions for your most visible team members
- Ongoing measurement against your goals
What’s included
How you organize and influence
Thinking on your feet, organizing to influence, and templates for presentations and for leading meetings.
Sound like a pro
Vocal variety, pace, volume, speed and clarity — the part most people assume is fixed at birth and the part that changes fastest with coaching.
Your visual image
Four levels of gesture, plus facial expression, eye contact in a room and on a video call, and looking confident in how you use space.
Creating your leadership style
Choosing your style words and the type of leader you want to be — speaking to the C-suite, and leading meetings people admire.
The Presence26© System behind this work
- Style Words — How you come across
The adjectives colleagues would use about you, and which ones you can change.
- The Three S's: Space, Symmetry, Stability
- Four Levels of Gestures
- Face it: Facial expression and contact
Eye contact in a room, camera contact on a call.
Proof
Hava's course was the best I've taken in my career and genuinely changed the way I thought about personal leadership and presence.
Client stories — two engagements told properly, with the identifying details removed
Related coaching
Executive Communication Coaching
One-to-one and group coaching incorporating the best practices leaders actually use: shaping a message and delivering it with confidence, whether you are presenting to a board, running a meeting, or handling challenging situations.
Media Training
Customized coaching for interviews, podcasts, webinars and press — message discipline, memorable soundbites, and what to do when the question is not the one you prepared for.
Presentation Skills Coaching
Our customized group workshops and one-to-one coaching lead to high impact, increased visibility and fast results.
Why people choose us for work that matters
A named system, published in full
Twenty-six competencies with names, grouped into five categories. You can read the whole thing before you spend anything — most firms will not show you their method.
See the Presence26© SystemThirty years, and the receipts
The Today Show, Oprah, the Wall Street Journal and Women’s Health. Three published books, all of them translated. Fifteen thousand clients.
See the press recordOther firms send us their coaches
The Train the Presentation Coach Certificate Program is one of the few of its kind — organisations pay to have their own HR and L&D people trained and credentialed by us.
About the Certificate ProgramThe prices are on the website
No discovery call required to find out what it costs. Both programme structures and the rates are published, along with what happens if those numbers are a problem.
See how an engagement runs
Investment
Our top priority is adding to your communication and presentation excellence. The investment is designed flexibly around your needs, resources, and the scope of the program.
- Group Day Session
- $5,900per coach
- Group Half-Day Session
- $2,900per coach
- 1:1 Corporate Coaching
- $475 / hour20-hour package: $9,500
- 1:1 Individual Coaching
- $375 / hourWhen the cost is not corporate-sponsored
All programs include an assessment and goal plan, materials, follow-up notes and an action plan, and unlimited texts between sessions.
Discuss your programCommon questions
What kind of feedback are you receiving?
Bring your strengths and your challenges to the complimentary consultation. Our expert coaches are happy to share ideas.
Laurie reads every inquiry personally and generally replies within one business day.
In her own words
Coach Laurie’s approach to executive presence
Two minutes, in her own words — what executive presence actually is, and what changes when someone has it.