622: To Rescue Your Executive Presence from the Dumpster Fire Stop Doing These 5 Things (from the 2026 Executive Influence Index)

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities:

Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted.

What if the behaviors you think make you look hardworking, prepared, and smart are actually making you look less executive? It happens more often than you think.

High performers are often rewarded for knowing more, doing more, explaining more, and working harder. But as you move into senior leadership, those same habits can start working against you. Executive influence isn't about producing the most output—it’s about knowing what matters, communicating it clearly, and creating better thinking and decisions around you.

In this episode of Speak Up, Dr. Laura Camacho reveals seven things you can stop doing at work to strengthen your executive presence and make the transition from expert to interpreter, advisor, and executive.

By the end of this episode you’ll know how to:

🏆Communicate with greater authority by saying less, prioritizing what matters, and eliminating unnecessary information

🏹Strengthen your influence by asking sharper questions, creating productive friction, and focusing less on proving you’re the smartest person in the room

🪝Increase your executive presence by replacing busyness, overwork, and boring communication with better judgment, clarity, and memorable ideas

Play the episode to discover what you can stop doing this week to create more influence, clearer decisions, and stronger executive presence—without simply working harder.

If you know you’re ready for the next level in your career—but you’re not sure whether your executive presence is helping you get there or quietly holding you back—start with the Executive Presence Scorecard.

This quick self-assessment will help you pinpoint where you’re already showing up as a confident, credible leader and where there may be gaps in how you communicate, influence, and lead.