When leadership transitions, there’s a short window of time to establish yourself as a powerful leader. The shareholder meeting is one of the best places to step up and be recognized as a leader with vision. Having coached CEO’s who landed a little flat with their presenting prowess, Dean shares how to leverage a shareholders meeting as prime time to step up and make your presence known.
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Radical transformation in your leadership, your presence, and your presentation skills sounds like a big promise—but it can be done, and it can be done fast. I’ve been doing it for years, and at Sage Presence we’ve built a whole approach around accelerating that leap.
Transitioning leaders—new CEOs, rising executives, high-visibility decision-makers—don’t have the luxury of a long runway. They’ve spent a lifetime building competence, but now they’re expected to instantly embody confidence, authority, charisma, and inspirational presence. The pressure window is small.
Coming from a film background, this made perfect sense to me. In film, the pressure window is always small. You’ve got 15 minutes to get the shot. People’s emotions, insecurities, and skills are all on the line. You have to work fast, go deep, and get the best performance out of them right now. That’s the mindset I bring into radical leadership transformation.
When I work with CEOs preparing for shareholder meetings, big team sessions, or hybrid company-wide presentations, all eyes are on them. These are make-or-break moments where people decide, “Are you someone I will follow?”
So I take them through an intensive, fast-cycle transformation process—sometimes a full day, sometimes two, sometimes multiple shorter hits over a couple of weeks. But the core idea is the same: we elevate their presence dramatically in a very short window.
We get into their psychology. We identify the stressors. We understand what’s blocking confidence. We tap into the authentic strengths. We build the expressive energy. We shape the message. We elevate the delivery. And we get them into a new orbit—a higher level of leadership gravity where people naturally lean in.
This work isn’t about polishing around the edges. It’s about getting people to step into who they are meant to be as leaders—and doing it fast. Sometimes leaders come to me and say, “I have a shareholders meeting next week; I need to be better now.” And we get them there.
And if you want this kind of transformation for yourself or someone on your leadership team, Sage Presence is here as that resource. You can walk into the room tomorrow with powerful presence, executive gravity, and a communication style that makes people say, “I’ll follow you.”
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