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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2026-05-21 · 38 min · 7,208 words

1154: The Fundamentals of Great Executive Presence with Elisia Keown

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If you're not having failure, if you're not feeling a little bit of the discomfort, if you're not feeling a little bit queasy about something that they say, your goals probably aren't stretching you. That's Alicia Cowan. She's an executive coach with over 26 years of experience helping leaders elevate their impact through strategic planning. Part of Alicia's mission is to demystify the atomic bomb feedback, needing more executive presence.

She has some unique insight on what people really mean when they say that, so you'll learn one, what it really means to have more executive presence, two, the sentences hindering your executive presence, and three, how to show up more confident for your next meeting. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the action wisdom that Alicia shares, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesomeatyourjob.com. I'm Pete Bakitis. This is how to be awesome at your job.

And now, here's Alicia. Alicia, welcome. Pete, thank you. So excited to be here. Well, I'm excited to talk executive presence and I think your own clients have have teed this up perfectly when they've actually said to you, I've told I should have more executive presence, but WTF does that even mean?

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