Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

byLaura Camacho

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🏆 Ranked #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence? Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying? Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings? Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts. You'll learn: 1. Visibility Strategies from the art of persuasion, ensuring your voice is heard and respected in meetings and sought after for key proje...

Episodes(40 episodes)

630: 3 Essential Moves to Build Executive Influence and Get Promoted WITHOUT Playing Corporate Politics

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.Are you working hard, delivering results, and doing everything expected of you—yet still struggling to get recognized, influence senior leaders, or move to the next level?Being great at your job is important, but results alone may not be enough to move from director to VP or become a mo...

Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 25m 48s

629: You’re Ready for VP. So Why Do You Keep Freezing in Executive Meetings?

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders.👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call here.Have you ever been asked for your opinion in an executive meeting, only to have your brain freeze—even though you knew exactly what you wanted to say five minutes earlier?You’ve delivered the results. You know the business. Your team already sees yo...

Published: Sep 21, 2026Duration: 10m 33s

628: Why Spencer Pratt Is Better at Storytelling and Executive Presence While Most Polished Leaders Bore Their Audiences

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.Many accomplished leaders tell the kind of story that leaves the audience checking their latest Slack message or maybe their upcoming Amazon delivery.What if your story doesn't need more polish?What if they need to feel less finished?In this ep...

Published: Sep 18, 2026Duration: 15m 37s

627: Why Your Team Stops Telling You What You Need to Know—and What It Means for Your Executive Presence

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.Today you can actually learn how to know if your executive influence is where you think it is. Listen today to learn this life changing skill. Under pressure, it’s easy to slip into a reactive, defensive, or judgmental mindset. But the questions you ask yourself and others can dete...

Published: Sep 16, 2026Duration: 27m 24s

626: When You’re a Highly Respected Leader at Work but Nothing Is Ever Good Enough for Your Difficult Boss

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders.👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereIf you’re highly respected everywhere else, but one relationship at work has you second-guessing everything you say and do, your expertise may not be the problem.You can have decades of experience, a strong track record, and complete confidence in your expertise—and sti...

Published: Sep 14, 2026Duration: 12m 8s

625: Why Exceptional Work Without Executive Presence Won’t Earn You More Than the Average 2027 Merit Raise

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.Are you waiting until your performance review to make the case for a bigger 2027 raise? By then, the decision may already be taking shape.With merit raises making a comeback and average performance-based increases expected to hover around 3.5%, organizations have more reason to differentiate between their highest-value leaders and ev...

Published: Sep 11, 2026Duration: 13m 46s

624: Stop Fighting Imposter Syndrome When It Can Multiply Your Executive Presence and Get You Promoted

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 self-doubt you’ve been trying to eliminate is actually one of your greatest advantages in high-stakes meetings?When you’re presenting to the C-suite, defending a proposal, or answering an unexpected question, it’s easy to become consumed by how you’re being perceived. But Avi Liran offe...

Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 36m 58s

623: You Did the Work. Your Boss Got the Executive Credit. Is That a Bad Thing?

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereAre you doing executive-level thinking behind the scenes—only to watch your boss get recognized as the strategic leader in the room?If you’re a Director, Senior Director, VP, partner, or executive, doing excellent work isn’t always enough to move your career fo...

Published: Sep 7, 2026Duration: 11m 7s

622: To Rescue Your Executive Presence from the Dumpster Fire Stop Doing These 5 Things (from the 2026 Executive Influence Index)

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, th...

Published: Sep 4, 2026Duration: 15m 23s

621: Everything You Thought You Needed To Do To Demonstrate Executive Presence Is Actually Making You Less Effective

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 everything you thought you needed to do to demonstrate executive presence was actually making you less effective?Executive presence isn't about dominating the conversation, knowing every answer, or burying senior leaders in data. For high-performing professionals who want to move into the C-suite, the real differentiators are of...

Published: Sep 2, 2026Duration: 26m 47s

620: You Know What Needs to Change. Why Can't You Get Executive Buy-In?

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereThis episode is for those of you who can see exactly what needs to change in your organization but somehow, you cannot get everyone else to see it, especially the top executives. Learn what to do, that does NOT involve day drinking….At the d...

Published: Aug 31, 2026Duration: 12m 29s

619: Why Some Leaders Are Remembered—and Others Are Forgotten by Lunch | New Findings from the 2026 Executive Influence Index

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 makes one leader unforgettable years after a meeting while most presentations are forgotten before lunch?In today's workplace, your audience is overwhelmed by nonstop emails, meetings, messages, AI summaries, and constant distractions. Standing out isn't about speaking more or having more confidence—it's about communicating in a way that...

Published: Aug 28, 2026Duration: 14m 11s

618: The Link Smart Leaders Miss Between High Performance And Executive Presence

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 your executive presence has less to do with what you say—and more to do with how well your body is functioning? Most professionals spend hours preparing for important meetings, perfecting presentations, and refining their communication skills. But if you're running on poor sleep, chronic stress, brain fog, or burnout, your body...

Published: Aug 26, 2026Duration: 24m 1s

617: Why Your Perfectionism Is Sabotaging Your Career & Leadership Opportunities When You're Not Even In The Room

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereWhat story are senior leaders telling about you after you leave the meeting—and did you write it?If you've ever walked out of an important meeting thinking, "I should have said that," you're not alone. Many high-performing leaders assume exceptional work will natur...

Published: Aug 24, 2026Duration: 10m 1s

616: Why THIS New Status Signal Gives Leaders the Executive Presence Advantage

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 most powerful executive status signal today isn't your title, your expertise, or even your confidence—but your ability to make everyone else think better?As hybrid work reshapes organizations and AI makes expertise easier to imitate, the traditional signals of leadership are fading. If...

Published: Aug 21, 2026Duration: 9m 41s

615: Why Most Leaders Lack Executive Presence and Completely Misread the People Around Them

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 biggest advantage in your next executive meeting isn't what you say—but what you notice?Most leaders focus so much on delivering the perfect message that they miss the valuable information happening all around them. In this fascinating conversation, Laura Camacho sits down with former undercover inte...

Published: Aug 19, 2026Duration: 26m 1s

614: To Have Executive Presence You Must Understand that Every Executive Promotion Is Really a Risk Decision

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereHave you ever watched someone else get the executive promotion and wondered why they were chosen over you—even though your track record was stronger?If you're a director, senior director, vice president, or aspiring executive, you've probably been told that working harder, deliv...

Published: Aug 17, 2026Duration: 10m 5s

613: The Real Reason SpaceX Is Trusted (And What It Means for Your Executive Presence)

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 one of the biggest reasons SpaceX has become one of the most trusted companies in the world...has nothing to do with rockets?What makes Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, one of the most trusted executives in one of the world's highest-risk industries? It's not a...

Published: Aug 14, 2026Duration: 11m 4s

612: Why Most Executive Presence Advice including “Speak Your Truth” Collapses Under Pressure

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. Why do some people effortlessly influence difficult conversations while everyone else ends up explaining, defending, and getting nowhere?If you've ever left a meeting wishing you'd said the perfect thing—or felt unheard despite doing everything "right"—this episode is for you. Laura sits down with renowned negotiation expert Kwame...

Published: Aug 12, 2026Duration: 27m 25s

611: Being Quiet is NOT the Reason Your Executive Presence Is Weak and You Keep Getting Passed Over for Promotions

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence?Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call hereYou probably think you keep getting passed over because you’re too quiet.Because you’re an introvert, or you don’t speak quickly enough in meetings, or you aren’t political. Find out the truth today.If you've ever believ...

Published: Aug 10, 2026Duration: 13m 52s