Executive Presence and Influence: Building Credibility and Respect

Master the art of presence and influence

Executive presence is the ability to exude confidence, gravitas, and authority while maintaining a sense of approachability and empathy. It is an essential quality for leaders who want to be taken seriously and inspire confidence in their team, stakeholders, and clients. 

Here are some of the reasons why executive presence is important:

• Establishes credibility: When you have an executive presence, people are more likely to trust you and take you seriously. This is especially important for leaders who need to convince others to follow their vision or implement their ideas.
• Inspires confidence and respect: Leaders with executive presence exude a sense of confidence that can inspire their team to believe in their abilities and take on new challenges. This can be a powerful motivator for teams that are working on complex projects or dealing with difficult situations.
• Enhances communication skills: Leaders with executive presence are often skilled communicators who can convey their ideas clearly and persuasively. This helps them to get their message across more effectively, which can be invaluable in business settings.
• Increases visibility: Leaders with executive presence are more likely to be noticed and recognized by others. This can be beneficial for those who are looking to advance their careers or establish themselves as thought leaders in their industry.

1-Day Executive Presence and Influence Workshop

This workshop is designed to help you master tactics to unlock your own executive presence such that your stakeholders have confidence, respect and trust in your competencies and reliability. Integrating the latest research and thinking around communication, body language, trust and the science of influence, the programme also offers a highly hands-on approach and constructive exercises that will accelerate your self-awareness and practical understanding.

You will learn how to employ soft-power strategies to draw people in and empower them without relying on formal authority or power structures. You will also look at how body language ties to presence: how stance, gestures, movements communicate ideas consciously and subconsciously; and the relative importance versus what we say across different settings, cultural contexts and groups.

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Present yourself professionally, including grooming, attire, and body language, which can help you project confidence and authority in the workplace.
• Gain a better understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, and values.
• Communicate effectively and confidently, both verbally and non-verbally, which can help you build trust and credibility with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain professional relationships, and how to effectively work with others.

• Leaders
• People seeking better public image.
• Anyone seeking to groom themselves for high corporate positions

Christian Chua is an international master class motivator. He is well respected for his expertise in Business Motivation, People Skills, Sales Motivation, Communication and Body Language expert. With over 20 years of professional speaking experience, he incorporates good, clean humour in all his presentations. Coupled with cutting-edge content he has established himself as a choice speaker for local and international events. Most notably, Christian has been accredited with the title Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speakers’ Association of America. He is one of only a small number of Singaporeans ever to achieve this accreditation.

He was the President of the Asia Professional Speakers Association (Singapore) 2008/09 and it was in this capacity that he represented Singapore in the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) meeting in New York. In May 2015, he had the privilege of speaking to a royalty, the Princess of Brunei and subsequently had the privilege of having a Royal audience with Her majesty. In 2017, he had the Princess of Kedah in his audience. Very often his audiences are Ministers and C-level executives. In March 2019, Christian was invited to Israel to do facial profiling of the 4 main Prime Minister Candidates to over CEOs of the IT Industry. During the Historical meeting between President Trump and President Kim held in Singapore, he was the go-to guy and was approached by 9 TV stations and newspaper for his analysis. Christian Chua was invited to be the main Body Language and Speech Analyst during the USA Presidential Debate by Channel News Asia.