Executive Presence Is Mostly About Timing
Executive presence is one of those phrases that sounds great until you try to define it. Most advice focuses on performance: speak more, project confidence, take up space. David Markley argues that framing misses what actually matters. Presence isn't about how you show up. It's about when you do. Drawing on his experience delivering the 2024 Paris Olympics digital experience, this essay reframes executive presence as judgment applied at the right moment, and explains why quiet leaders already have more of it than they realize.Read the full essay and subscribe at leadingquietly.com. This is a…
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