An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Advanced Executive Presence

Achieving Leadership Momentum Through Trust and Behavioral Clarity

Advanced Executive Presence

Scheduled Dates

05 - 09 Oct 2026
Dubai - UAE
$5,950
09 - 13 Nov 2026
London - UK
$5,950
21 - 25 Dec 2026
Vienna - Austria
$5,950
03 - 07 May 2027
Dubai - UAE
$5,950
31 May - 04 Jun 2027
Online
$4,950
16 - 20 Aug 2027
London - UK
$5,950
04 - 08 Oct 2027
Dubai - UAE
$5,950
08 - 12 Nov 2027
London - UK
$5,950
20 - 24 Dec 2027
Vienna - Austria
$5,950

Why Choose this Training Course?

Leaders today are expected to deliver results while inspiring confidence at every level of the organisation. From executive teams to frontline employees, stakeholders look for clarity, authenticity, confidence, and effective communication. Developing a purposeful communication style and strengthening your executive presence can help you meet these expectations. Building confidence in others requires more than expressing ideas clearly and calmly. It also requires establishing trust in your leadership abilities, decision-making skills, technical expertise, and commitment to delivering on promises.

The Advanced Executive Presence training course explores these capabilities and presents them as practical skills that can be developed and refined. Drawing on current research in communication, body language, trust, and influence, the course combines theory with practical application. Participants will enhance self-awareness and gain valuable insights through role-playing activities and video feedback analysis.

This Advanced Executive Presence training course will highlight:

  • Developing your Storyline
  • Identifying Your Executive Presence Potential
  • Building Trust with Your People
  • The Art of Influence
  • Developing Charisma

What are the Goals?

By the end of this Advanced Executive Presence training course, participants will be able to:

  • Motivate stakeholders to support and act on your vision
  • Generate collective action through executive presence
  • Apply cultural intelligence to influence and engage others effectively
  • Unlock and develop personal charisma
  • Establish the foundations for long-term trust

Who is this Training Course for?

This Advanced Executive Presence training course is designed for professionals who work with internal and external stakeholders and wish to strengthen their leadership influence and executive presence.

It will be particularly valuable for:

  • Senior Executives
  • Department Heads and Functional Leaders
  • Project Managers and Team Leaders
  • HR Leaders and Executive HR Professionals

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This highly interactive training course incorporates a variety of learning and development methods designed to maximise engagement and practical application.

Learning approaches include:

  • Role-playing exercises
  • Video feedback analysis
  • Voice coaching sessions
  • Experiential group activities
  • Individual presentations
  • Syndicate discussions

These methods allow participants to experience firsthand the impact of executive presence. Brief theory-based inputs are also provided to introduce the principles of advanced executive presence and high-performance leadership.

Organisational Impact

Modern organisations require leaders who can establish trust quickly and communicate with clarity from the moment they engage with others. Strengthening executive presence enhances an organisation’s ability to connect people, build engagement, and influence outcomes without relying solely on formal authority.

As a result of this training course, organisations will benefit from leaders who can:

  • Communicate a compelling vision with confidence
  • Apply advanced executive presence techniques in stakeholder interactions
  • Leverage body language and non-verbal communication more effectively
  • Encourage creativity and innovation within teams
  • Focus on practical actions and measurable outcomes
  • Address long-term organisational and customer needs with greater awareness

Personal Impact

This training course examines the essential communication skills required to strengthen both presence and influence. Participants will learn how to assess situations effectively and apply culturally appropriate strategies to the right people, in the right context, and at the right time.

Participants will benefit by:

  • Gaining a clear understanding of how to apply executive presence effectively
  • Strengthening personal confidence levels
  • Learning how to optimise non-verbal communication techniques
  • Enhancing their ability to build trust and manage challenging teams
  • Expanding professional networking opportunities
  • Exchanging ideas that support continued personal development

Daily Agenda

Day 1: Developing your Storyline
  • Building a strong understanding of your ideas
  • Discovering the 5 practical principles to help make your ideas stick
  • Inspiring others to adopt and act on your ideas
  • Utilizing appreciative inquiry to grow unleash your potential
  • Exploring how to get people to pay attention to your vision
  • Creating collective action from your storyline
Day 2: Identifying Your Executive Presence Potential

  • Understanding the importance of how as well as what
  • Appreciating the role of body language in communicating warmth and competence to your team, bosses, and clients
  • Understanding the power of body language
  • Learning to speak softly and carry a big stick
  • Unleashing the power of powerless body language
  • Walking on stage with gravitas
Day 3: Building Trust with your People

  • Understanding the biology and psychology of trust
  • Building the foundations for lasting trust
  • Who does not trust enough, will not be trusted
  • Learning how to judge trustworthiness: Ability, integrity, benevolence
  • Exploring cognitive & affective trust
  • Techniques to repair trust
Day 4: The Art of Influence

  • Developing influence without legitimate power
  • Achieving high impact influence with difficult peopleavoiding the 4 common persuasion mistakes
  • Applying cultural intelligence to win hearts and minds
  • Psychodynamic influencing techniques
  • Igniting team based influencing techniques
Day 5: Developing Charisma

  • Understanding why attraction towards charismatic people takes place in a cultural context
  • Learning the secrets of charisma from the world’s top executives
  • Applying the psychology of attraction to achieve charismatic excellence
  • Enhancing your self-awareness using the five charisma leadership factors
  • Harnessing your hidden charisma
  • Maximizing type I leadership: Introverted charisma

Certificate

  • Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official PetroKnowledge Certificate of Completion, signed by the course facilitator. The certificate confirms successful participation and records the total learning hours completed.
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.

Accreditation

NASBA Approved Training Courses

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