Leadership Presence: Define it, Develop It, and Use It

Increase your leadership presence so that you and your messages are convincing.
Executive coaching

Leadership presence

 

Effective leadership requires knowledge, expertise, and trustworthiness. Vital to your success as a leader is how you are perceived. Increase your leadership presence so that you and your messages are convincing.

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Frequently asked questions

What is leadership presence?

Leadership presence is the ability to connect authentically, build confidence in others, and inspire and motivate people into action.

What is effective presence?

Effective presence makes the people you interact with feel seen, heard, understood, and valued. It is the ability to act decisively and with dignity while embodying the most quintessential elements of leadership. People with an executive presence work well under pressure, communicate clearly, and have a confident, capable character.

How about helping me with leadership presence?

Q: I am the CEO of a small company and will soon be running a much larger company. That’s why I want to expand my leadership presence. Can you help me?

A: Yes, one important component of achieving leadership success is how you present yourself. Therefore, I offer to coach for leadership presence to help you present yourself in a clear, confident, polished, and authentic manner.

I want to know more about the coach

Hello, I am Karsten Noack! I live in Berlin and I have been a globetrotter for a long time. After a career in management and consulting, I offer my experience since 1998 as a consultant, coach, and trainer. I am a media-savvy and engaged speaker, myself. The focus of my work is to make you and your message compelling in conversations and presentations.

My clients include companies, executives, freelancers, and start-up businesses, people in politics and science, while some are also private individuals. And maybe you.

Read more in my profile.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Leadership presence

 

Effective leadership requires knowledge, expertise, and trustworthiness, but equally vital to your success as a leader is the way in which you are perceived.

One component of achieving leadership success is how you present yourself. Therefore, I offer my assistance for leadership presence to help you present yourself in a clear, confident, polished, and authentic manner that demonstrates leadership excellence – whether it’s to the board, executive team, senior management, staff, clients, or the public or media.

As a presentation skills consultant, executive speech coach, and speaker, I work with professionals who want to position themselves as leaders by delivering more engaging, compelling presentations, allowing them to step out in front of audiences with confidence, build their careers and businesses, and stand out as the leader that they are.

 

 

 

What I offer

 

As a leader, you are always in the spotlight. Therefore, it is good to be authentic and sovereign. Constantly pretending and acting instead of maintaining one’s comfort zone would be exhausting. As a coach and trainer, I’ll help you to …

  • define your profile and position yourself.
  • know your values and priorities.
  • develop a clear strategy on how to represent yourself in your professional life
  • speak spontaneously and with credibility
  • work out your relevant strengths
  • communicate with clarity and authority
  • use convincing strategies to motivate and effect change
  • monitor your body language and eye contact
  • use your body language authentically and expressively.
  • use your voice effectively
  • present in front of different audiences and the media

 

What I offer in one sentence: I help you to convince as a personality and with your messages. I support you in individual sessions. And if you like, I can even help you implement all of this. 

Your coach and travel companion

 

Effective leadership requires knowledge, expertise, and trustworthiness, but equally vital to your success as a leader is how you are perceived. I help you to present yourself in a clear, confident, and effective manner that demonstrates leadership excellence – whether it’s to the board, executive team, senior management, staff, clients, the public, or media., in conversations and presentations.

Since 1998 I support a wide variety of people who have something important to say. I prepare them to present themselves and their offer convincingly. Before that, I was a manager with a focus on marketing. I have already experienced far too many people who thought the quality of their offer was sufficient. While I admire such honest people, it ignores reality. If you are convinced of your offer, you should also present it accordingly. The message and the messenger cannot be separated.​ That is why I am helping you so that you and your offer are convincingly presented. Benefit from my experience in marketing, psychology, and communication.

Find out more about me in my profile.

Be ready for important conversations and negotiations

 

Communication can be easy. But often it is not. Sometimes we say one thing and then realize later, based on the other person's reaction, that they were talking to someone else. With the best will in the world, I didn't say that. - Or did I?

More or less consciously, conversations are about convincing other people of something - be it a special offer, your personality, a perspective, or a necessity. If this doesn't happen quickly enough, and above all, if it isn't precise and vivid, the other person quickly loses interest, and we lose the hoped-for opportunity. - The conversation has failed.

You can let me help you prepare for your meetings and negotiations (to be on the safe side: no legal advice!). Find out how you and your message are perceived (arguments, body language, language, voice, and much more). I will train you effective tools and communication strategies. Develop your psychological skills, learn to stay calm, act confidently, remain authentic, and ultimately convince.

Preparation of important speeches and presentations

 

Those who do not speak are not heard, and even those who speak up are not always successful. There are a few more steps that need to be mastered.

Do you want to convince with your message and also as a personality? Then I will help you to prepare your speeches and presentations. You determine the scope. At least, I recommend a test run with professional feedback for you and your message. Then you will know how you and your content are perceived, what you should do, and what you should leave out, where there is potential. Why do you want to get such helpful feedback so late after your real performance? Then it is too late for adjustments. Benefit from the advantage. My definition of luck: Preparation meets opportunity.

You can best estimate for yourself where the effort is worthwhile concerning the expected benefit. Here you will find the fees for my support (communication, psychology, language, structure, voice, body language, storytelling, rhetorical means, media such as PowerPoint and Co., etc.)

You are not in Berlin right now? Then choose meetings with me via telephone or video support. Whereby, there are quite good reasons for a trip to Berlin.

By the way, many people suffer from such intense stage fright in front of an audience, and therefore their performance lags behind their possibilities. Too bad, because with my help performance in a good condition is possible. Just in case...

A good start: Professional feedback with suggestions for improvement​

 

How persuasive are you and your messages in speeches and presentations? How good are you at the 111+ most important presentation skills? I have been analyzing speeches since 1998. After evaluating 14,375 speeches and presentations, and numerous mistakes of my own, most of which I only discovered after a delay, I can tell you exactly what works with which audience. Let me give you the feedback that will help you get ahead. You will receive essential feedback and recommendations, as well as the impulses you need to persuade your audience in concrete situations.

Are you interested? If so, here is how to get helpful feedback with recommendations for improving your speeches and presentations.

Just ask me personally

 

Please post any questions that may be of interest to other readers in the comments. Looking for professional help?

If you are interested in coaching, training or consulting, if you have organizational questions, or if you want to make an appointment, you can reach me best via this contact form (you can choose whether you want to enter your personal data) or via e-mail (mail@karstennoack.com). The privacy policy can be found here.

Transparency is important. That is why you will find answers to frequently asked questions already here, for example about me (profile), the services, the fees and getting to know me. If you like what you see, I look forward to working with you.

 

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Glossary

 

In the glossary, you will find information on common and not-so-common terms related to strategic communication. Communication science, marketing, and psychology complement each other. Where the glossary and article end, the work with me begins. I make sure that you and your message are convincing –in conversations and presentations.

Ask me! If you can not find what you are looking for, send me a message. Maybe I write an article about it.

You have something to say? Let's make sure it gets the chance it deserves.

Published: March 25, 2008
Author: Karsten Noack
Revision: February 21st, 2022
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