Leadership Presence

Acting for Leadership – Improvisational Leadership – Executive Storytelling

Latest findings in neuroscience demonstrate how the leader’s emotional state spreads like contagion to create conditions for high performance or failure. Successful leaders motivate, engage and inspire though the gift of positive presence.  Yet in The Next Level’s survey of more than three-hundred Fortune 500 leaders, most executives scored presence or self-presentation as their lowest competency.  Our impressive suite of Leadership Presence Workshops draws upon techniques of acting, improvisation, storytelling, and vocal training to help participants become the leaders they need to be from wherever they sit. Workshops are co-led by a leadership coach along with professional acting, voice, and storytelling experts.

Core Elements of Our Leadership Presence Training:

• Speaking with confidence, authenticity, clarity and impact
• Self-regulation to manage stress and threat states during change
• Using improvisation techniques to think on your feet,  gain optimal creativity, and positively engage others
• Understanding the true meaning of “yes and!” in welcoming innovation
• Bringing fun and exploration back into your organization
• Using authentic acknowledgement and deep listening to build resiliency
• Creating positive contagion with audiences small or large
• Learning when to lead, when to follow, and when to stand aside

Read an article about executive presence and The Next Level published in NJBIZ