Executive Presence Development
Leadership Readiness That Scales
Develop executive presence skills for the demands of greater responsibility. Signal Leadership Ventures helps individual leaders put those skills into practice in their own style. We also work with teams and organizations to build a clearer basis for leadership development and readiness assessment.
The Problem
Traditional Executive Presence Was Hard to Teach and Measure
Feedback about executive presence can be difficult to act on when the expectation is unclear. Individual leaders need guidance about the skills to strengthen. Teams and organizations need shared criteria for development and for discussing readiness for greater responsibility.
A leader may intend to reassure a team yet leave people feeling more anxious. Understanding that gap means examining how the leader manages themselves under pressure and how they communicate. Development connects those internal skills with how they are expressed and experienced by others.
Offerings
Ways to Work with
Signal Leadership Ventures
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Integrate executive presence into leadership development and readiness assessment through a facilitated, multi-month program. Participants work within a shared framework, with assessment informing their individual development priorities.
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Develop shared expectations for leadership within your team. Facilitated programs help team members work on the executive presence skills their responsibilities require, with assessment informing where development begins.
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Make sense of feedback about your executive presence and identify the skills to develop for your current role or greater responsibility. Get in touch to discuss your needs and how Signal can help. Emerging and newer leaders can also explore Your Leadership Signal, a self-paced digital course that includes self-assessment.
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Bring executive presence development into your business or leadership curriculum. The Leadership Signal Method gives students a framework for developing skills they can apply as their responsibilities grow.
The Leadership Signal Method
The jointly developed Leadership Signal Method provides a framework for learning, implementing and measuring executive presence skills. It connects the internal skills leaders develop with how they put those skills into practice and how others experience their leadership.
Compose
How you manage yourself and stabilize situations under pressure
Communicate
How you translate complexity into clarity and shared understanding
Catalyze
How you move people, decisions, and momentum forward
Program/Course Overview
Participants may be preparing for similar responsibilities while needing to strengthen different skills. Assessment results help shape the program and the guidance each participant receives.
Each participant receives a review of their results with one of the method’s co-developers and an action plan. Reviews take place individually or in small groups, depending on the program. Participants work on relevant skills through exercises such as role play, with room to develop their own style.
Facilitated Programs
Your Leadership Signal offers a self-paced digital course for emerging and newer leaders. The online course includes videos, ‘pod-case’ style case studies, exercises, reflection activities and a Leadership Signal development workbook - to keep the learning going.
Our proprietary self-assessment helps participants reflect on their strengths and identify areas for development.
Your Leadership Signal
Eileen Nebhut is founder and CEO of Signal Leadership Ventures and an adjunct lecturer at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. Across more than 20 years in business development and strategy, she saw strong performers struggle to get clear guidance about their executive presence. Her later work in image consulting brought another perspective on how people are experienced by others.
Both experiences inform her work today as co-developer of the Leadership Signal Method. Her approach examines the skills leaders draw on in difficult situations and how others experience their response.
Eileen holds an Executive MBA in Global Business from Georgia Tech and a BA in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. Her business and psychology education informs her attention to the demands leaders face and how they respond.
About Eileen
Tell Us About Your Goals
Tell us about the leadership responsibilities you’re preparing for or the people you’re developing. Include what prompted your interest in executive presence so the conversation can begin with your needs.