Top Highlights

• Presence is the result of certain ongoing choices you make, actions you take or fail to take. In fact, presence is a set of skills, both internal and external, that virtually anyone can develop and improve.
• Developing presence will require you to go places and do things that feel uncomfortable, at least initially.
• They must excite us when they step onstage, or they will fail.
• It’s a paradox of the theater that, in order to pretend, the actor must be real.
• Leadership Presence: the ability to connect authentically with the thoughts and feelings of others, in order to motivate and inspire them toward a desired outcome.