622: To Rescue Your Executive Presence from the Dumpster Fire Stop Doing These 5 Things (from the 2026 Executive Influence Index)
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Dr. Laura Camacho discusses five behaviors to stop in order to enhance executive presence and improve leadership communication.
Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. What if the behaviors you think make you look hardworking, prepared, and smart are actually making you look less executive? It happens more often than you think. High performers are often rewarded for knowing more, doing more, explaining more, and working harder. But as you move into senior leadership, those same habits can start working against you. Executive influence isn't about producing the most output—it’s about knowing what matters, communicating it clearly, and creating better thinking and decisions around you. In this episode of Speak Up , Dr. Laura Camacho reveals seven things you can stop doing at work to strengthen your executive presence and make the transition from expert to interpreter, advisor, and executive. By the end of this episode you’ll know how to: 🏆Communicate with greater authority by saying less, prioritizing what matters, and eliminating unnecessary information 🏹Strengthen your influence by asking…
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