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.
Is your leadership communication style unintentionally making your team less effective—and undermining your executive presence?
You work hard to lead your team, communicate clearly, and deliver results. But what if the very strategies you rely on—giving direct feedback, pushing through challenges, and expecting others to think like you—are actually holding you back?
In this episode of Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence, Laura sits down with Annie Yatch, a former counterterrorism expert turned leadership and performance coach, to explore what separates elite performers from everyone else.
By the end of Laura’s conversation with Annie Yatch, you'll know:
🔑How to identify and overcome four critical leadership gaps so you can build trust, improve team performance, and get better results without micromanaging
💰How to develop an elite mindset and stay calm under pressure
🔥How to increase your influence and executive presence and create the kind of authentic connection that inspires people to perform at their best.
Ready to stop letting hidden leadership gaps limit your success?
Listen now to discover practical strategies for thinking like an elite performer, communicating with greater influence, and leading your team with more confidence.
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About our fabulous guest:
Annie Yatch is a former counterterrorism analyst who now works as a leadership and performance expert helping executives, founders, and high-performing professionals strengthen how they lead, communicate, and show up under pressure. Her work focuses on the often-overlooked foundation of executive presence: the internal state that drives clarity, confidence, and influence in real-time communication.
What makes Annie particularly relevant for your audience is her perspective that executive presence is not just a skill set—it is a physiological and psychological state. Many capable leaders struggle to speak up effectively, communicate clearly, or project confidence not because they lack knowledge or communication training, but because stress, cognitive overload, and nervous system dysregulation interfere with how they show up in critical moments.
The Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence Podcast helps high-performing professionals develop executive presence through strategic communication, executive confidence, and leadership influence. Each episode provides practical strategies to help you speak up in meetings, communicate with senior leaders, present ideas with clarity, build executive visibility, strengthen your leadership presence, influence without authority, stop overexplaining, answer difficult questions with confidence, and become a trusted executive leader.
Whether you're preparing for your next Vice President promotion or looking to communicate with greater credibility and gravitas, you'll learn actionable executive communication skills that accelerate career growth.
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