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Express Vocal Tips - Helping to power your voice — by Welcome to this series of Express Vocal Tips to help you power your voice and speak so people want to listen. I will be posting weekly until the end of this year, providing you with easy and actionable ways to get more out of your voice and to speak […]

Express Vocal Tips – helping you to power your voice

10 Oct, 2019 in Executive presence / Public speaking / Voice tagged Express Vocal Tips by Maria Wilhelmsson

Fear of speaking – shifting the spotlight away from your ...

19 Aug, 2019 in Executive presence / Influencing skills / Public speaking tagged confidence / connection / courage / fear of speaking / managing anxiety / public speaking by Maria Wilhelmsson

Aliveness - an essential component of your executive presence. — by The past few weeks have been full of work to be done before the holidays and end-of-term obligations related to our children. In this frenzy, I’ve had moments of feeling more dead than alive. Therefore, I felt a calling to write about aliveness. When we talk about executive presence […]

Aliveness – an essential component of your presence

11 Jul, 2019 in Executive presence tagged aliveness by Maria Wilhelmsson

Working on your executive presence videos — Would you like to work on your executive presence but not sure where to start? I have put together three brief videos to get you going!

Working on your executive presence – three videos

9 Jul, 2019 in Executive presence by Maria Wilhelmsson

Leadership presence starts in your body

27 Apr, 2019 in Body language / Executive presence by Maria Wilhelmsson

Adjust your body – change your state and your impact

18 Apr, 2019 in Body language / Executive presence tagged body awareness / leadership presence by Maria Wilhelmsson

Strategies that may sabotage your communication — by What is your standard response to stress and how does it affect your communication and your relationships? When under pressure or exposed to conflict, we tend to cope along three dimensions: by moving move toward people (compliance), against them (aggression), or away from them (withdrawal). These are instinctive behaviours […]

Strategies that sabotage your communication

29 Mar, 2019 in Body language / Executive presence tagged centering / communication / leadership presence by Maria Wilhelmsson

Engaging and involving your audience in meetings and presentations. Leading effective and interactive meetings and presentations. — by We all know what it’s like to sit through boring presentations and meetings being force-fed facts and figures. We start daydreaming, checking our e-mail, send a text message, or even fall asleep. From the speaker’s point of view, it’s not that fun either. Seeing a sea of blank faces […]

Why you need to involve your audience – and why ...

15 Feb, 2019 in Influencing skills / Public speaking tagged audience engagement / Audience involvement / effective meetings / influencing skills / interactive presentations by Maria Wilhelmsson

by Executive presence is the ability to connect authentically with others, inspire and influence them to act. Simply put, your presence is the way you are in the world – how you show up, act, and interact with others. Your presence determines the quality of your relationships and what you […]