What is Executive Presence and how is it different from being Inspirational as a leader? For many years clients have asked our executive coaches to help their leaders with their presence and impact, and to have more gravitas. However, Executive Presence is a bit like the dark science of leadership and it eludes many leaders who want to have presence and make a positive impact but they do not know how. Zircon therefore conducted research with nearly 200 leaders to understand the concept of Executive Presence and how we can help leaders communicate with more impact, gravitas and dynamism. In this episode, Angela interviews Amanda to understand the research and to give some real examples of how coaching clients have developed their executive presence. The Chief Psychology Officer website is now available https://www.thecpo.co.uk/ To contact Amanda via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon To contact Amanda via email: [email protected] For more information about the BeTalent please go to: https://www.betalent.com Timestamps Executive Presence ·       00:00 – Introduction to Executive Presence ·       00:23 – The dark science of leadership ·       00:46 – Everybody wants it, but we don’t know what it is ·       01:28 – Why research Executive Presence? ·       02:24 – All the books seem to say… ·       03:07 – There’s a lot of research on this! What the research says ·       03:51 – What is Executive Presence? ·       05:05 – My version of events ·       05:42 – Influential, not an influencer ·       06:33 – THE BIG 5! ·       07:08 – Charisma ·       08:19 – Confidence ·       08:54 – Credibility ·       09:33 – The Rise of the Clowns ·       10:43 – Gravitas ·       11:07 – Power Education, Education & Education ·       11:33 – Is it critical, or just handy? ·       12:32 – Style & Substance ·       13:40 – What do I do if I don’t have it? ·       14:15 – Who has it and who doesn’t ·       15:29 – We think we have it, but we don’t know anyone who actually has it ·       16:31 – Everyone can learn, the question is how… In the real world… ·       17:22 – The secret formula ·       19:49 – Connecting back to the big 5 ·       20:40 – Go to bed! ·       21:06 – The end.