Roundtable: Executive Presence - How to Stand Out and Lead with Gravitas + Grace

You’ve earned your seat at the table. Now it’s about how you show up.

Executive presence isn’t just confidence. It’s how you show calm in chaos, influence without overpowering, and lead with clarity — especially when it counts most.

In this roundtable, we’ll talk candidly about:

1. Speaking with intention – How to be declarative without sounding rigid
2. Navigating senior rooms – Earning credibility when time is short and expectations are high
3. Managing pressure – Staying grounded in high-conflict or high-visibility situations
4. Balancing strength with warmth – Why empathy, timing, and tone matter more than ever in hybrid teams

Meet Your Host

Sue Bethanis, Ed.D. has spent 29 years in the trenches coaching tech execs through growth, crisis, and reinvention. As CEO of Mariposa Leadership, she’s advised leaders at Amazon, Google, Netflix, PayPal, and dozens more through their most defining leadership moments.

She’s the author of Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage and host of the WiseTalk podcast — and brings sharp, practical insight on leading with presence, even when the pressure’s high and the stakes are higher.

Bring your real-world challenges.

Leave with concrete techniques tailored to your leadership style — and a better sense of how to lead with gravitas and grace.