Andrea Kundert
Back to the wall
3-day virtual series

Executive Presence

Read the audience, show the data, take the hard question. Three sessions on presenting to executives, and by the last one every participant has presented.

Format
Virtual, with breakout rooms
Length
Three sessions on consecutive days
Homework
About an hour, before the last session
For
[WHO IT WAS FOR]

The framework

six skills, three headings

Judgment

  • Audience alignment
  • Executive recommendations

Clarity

  • Data visualization
  • Storytelling

Gravitas

  • Handling tough questions
  • Speaking with confidence

Three sessions

day one

Audience, visuals, story

Match the message to what a given executive cares about. Make slides that land at a glance. Tell a story with data in three acts.

breakout: one recommendation, rewritten for eight different executives

day two

Recommend, respond, deliver

Build a recommendation as insight, action, impact. Answer a hard question by reframing, echoing or bridging. Then tone, pacing and posture on camera.

homework: build it, record a rehearsal, score yourself

day three

Present and plan

Everyone presents their capstone and gets peer feedback against an eight-point rubric.

on your own: an action plan across all six skills

the capstone

3 minutes. 3 slides. 3 people in the room.

The kit

[SLIDE SCREENSHOT]
what the room sees

Slide deck

One deck for all three sessions, with timed activity instructions and workbook page cues on screen.

Open the deck
[WORKBOOK PAGE SCREENSHOT]
what participants keep

Participant workbook

23 pages: a page for each exercise, the evaluation rubric, and a six-skill action plan with follow-up courses.

Open the workbook

The back story

parking lot, for Andrea

The need

[WHO ASKED FOR THIS SERIES, AND WHAT PROBLEM IT HAD TO SOLVE.]

My role

[WHAT YOU DID: ANALYSIS, DESIGN, WRITING, VISUAL DESIGN, FACILITATION.]

What happened

[FEEDBACK, A PARTICIPANT QUOTE, HOW OFTEN IT HAS RUN.]

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