An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Advanced Executive Presence

Achieving Leadership Momentum Through Trust and Behavioral Clarity

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

As a leader, you are expected to deliver results with clarity, confidence, and consistency. From boardroom conversations to frontline engagements, stakeholders at every level rely on your ability to communicate with authenticity, inspire trust, and lead with conviction. Executive presence is not simply a matter of style—it's a critical leadership asset that reflects your capacity to influence, connect, and follow through with integrity.

The Advanced Executive Presence training course is designed to help leaders become intentional communicators while refining their personal leadership brand. It guides participants in mastering the principles of influence, trust-building, and high-impact communication. Grounded in contemporary research on presence, body language, and persuasive communication, this course blends theory with experiential learning through voice coaching, practical exercises, and real-time video feedback to enhance self-awareness and leadership impact.

This KC Academy training course will cover:

  • Crafting your leadership narrative and message
  • Discovering and enhancing your executive presence
  • Building trust across all levels of your organization
  • Mastering the techniques of influence and persuasion
  • Unlocking personal charisma and leadership magnetism

COURSE DETAILS

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OBJECTIVES

By the end of the Advanced Executive Presence training course, participants will be able to:

  • Inspire and engage key stakeholders through a compelling leadership vision
  • Cultivate alignment and collective action through strengthened executive presence
  • Apply cultural intelligence to communicate effectively across diverse audiences
  • Develop a stronger, more charismatic presence in both formal and informal settings
  • Establish deep, lasting trust through consistent and authentic leadership behaviors

 

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This Advanced Executive Presence training course uses a variety of approaches to learning and development, including role playing, video feedback analyses, voice coaching, experiential group activities, individual presentations, and syndicate discussions.  This encourages you to hear, see and feel for yourself the power of executive presence. Short informal inputs are used to introduce the underpinning theory of advanced executive presence and high-performance leadership

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ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT

Organizations will benefit significantly from leaders who are able to command presence, communicate vision effectively, and inspire performance without relying solely on positional authority. Through this training course, your organization can expect:

  • Confident leaders capable of articulating vision and direction with clarity
  • Enhanced stakeholder engagement through improved executive communication
  • Greater effectiveness in team influence and relationship-building
  • Stronger alignment with organizational values and emotional intelligence
  • An increase in innovation and creativity within leadership teams
  • Leaders who focus on outcomes and long-term impact rather than abstract theory

 

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PERSONAL IMPACT

Participants will develop powerful communication and interpersonal strategies to enhance their influence and executive presence. Specific personal benefits include:

  • A deeper understanding of executive presence and how to embody it
  • Improved self-confidence in public speaking and high-stakes interactions
  • Mastery of non-verbal communication cues that enhance leadership impact
  • Strengthened trust-building skills, especially in complex team dynamics
  • Expanded professional network through peer learning and idea exchange
  • Practical insights that contribute to long-term personal and professional growth

 

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Executives in client-facing roles and organizations who want to build strong long-term relationships with external stakeholders.

This KC Academy Advanced Executive Presence training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Executive Directors
  • Heads of Departments
  • Project Managers
  • Executive HR Professionals

DAILY AGENDA

Day 1: Developing your Storyline
  • Building a strong understanding of your ideas
  • Discovering the 5 practical principles to help make your ideas stick
  • Inspiring others to adopt and act on your ideas
  • Utilizing appreciative inquiry to grow unleash your potential
  • Exploring how to get people to pay attention to your vision
  • Creating collective action from your storyline
Day 2: Identifying Your Executive Presence Potential
  • Understanding the importance of how as well as what
  • Appreciating the role of body language in communicating warmth and competence to your team, bosses, and clients
  • Understanding the power of body language
  • Learning to speak softly and carry a big stick
  • Unleashing the power of powerless body language
  • Walking on stage with gravitas
Day 3: Building Trust with your People
  • Understanding the biology and psychology of trust
  • Building the foundations for lasting trust
  • Who does not trust enough, will not be trusted
  • Learning how to judge trustworthiness: Ability, integrity, benevolence
  • Exploring cognitive & affective trust
  • Techniques to repair trust
Day 4: The Art of Influence
  • Developing influence without legitimate power
  • Achieving high impact influence with difficult people
    avoiding the 4 common persuasion mistakes
  • Applying cultural intelligence to win hearts and minds
  • Psychodynamic influencing techniques
  • Igniting team based influencing techniques
Day 5: Developing Charisma
  • Understanding why attraction towards charismatic people takes place in a cultural context
  • Learning the secrets of charisma from the world’s top executives
  • Applying the psychology of attraction to achieve charismatic excellence
  • Enhancing your self-awareness using the five charisma leadership factors
  • Harnessing your hidden charisma
  • Maximizing type I leadership: Introverted charisma
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Certificate

On successful completion of this training course, KC ACademy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.

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