Executive Presence Won't Grow Your Career. Alignment Will.

If you want to grow your career at the Director, VP, or senior individual contributor level, saying less ums, more polish, or executive presence won't get you there. A lot of career coaches will teach you how to look desirable. How to sound desirable. How to get into rooms, get buy-in, perform executive presence. What if you get in and you constantly have to put a mask on? What if the real work isn't faking better. It's finding the rooms you don't have to fake your way into? In this live I talk about why most career advice for senior leaders is solving the wrong problem. — Why "executive presence" coaching fails senior leaders — What proximity-to-power strategies actually do to your career — The pattern I see in clients who grew their career vs. clients who stalled