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title: Executive Presence
description: Executive presence is the blend of temperament, communication skills, and appearance that signals leadership capability. Learners will understand how to project confidence, communicate with gravitas, and build credibility with stakeholders and senior executives.
category: personal-development
subcategory: leadership
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/executive-presence
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# Executive Presence

Executive presence is the blend of temperament, communication skills, and appearance that signals leadership capability. Learners will understand how to project confidence, communicate with gravitas, and build credibility with stakeholders and senior executives.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 2 Courses • 2 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Developing Executive Presence

Learn to cultivate confidence, credibility, and command attention in Dorie Clark's "Developing Executive Presence" course.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.linkedin.com/learning/developing-executive-presence

**Tags:** executive-presence, leadership, communication, personal-branding, professional-development

### 2. Leadership Communication

Five-module course from Fundação Instituto de Administração covering corporate reputation, media and stakeholder relations, internal employee communication, and dialogue as a leadership tool, including listening, questioning, storytelling, and word choice techniques.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/communication-principles-for-leaders

**Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership

## Books

### 1. Executive Presence

**Author:** Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Hewlett draws on Center for Talent Innovation surveys to argue that promotion depends on gravitas, communication, and appearance as much as competence, and shows how to read and adjust the signals senior leaders judge you by.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062246895?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership

### 2. The Charisma Myth

**Author:** Olivia Fox Cabane

Cabane treats charisma as a trainable set of behaviors built from presence, warmth, and power, offering mental exercises and body-language drills you can practice before meetings, pitches, and difficult conversations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845947?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership

### 3. Presence

**Author:** Amy Cuddy

Social psychologist Amy Cuddy examines how posture and self-perception affect performance under pressure, drawing on power-posing research that has since faced replication challenges, alongside practical techniques for entering high-stakes moments with more composure.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/140915601X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership

## Websites

### 1. hbr.org

Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://hbr.org

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

### 2. mindtools.com

Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://mindtools.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

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