{"podcast":{"title":"Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style","slug":"speak-up-develop-your-executive-presence-leadership-communication-style-65929","podcast_index_feed_id":65929,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/speak-up-with-laura/","website_url":"http://www.speakupwithlaura.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9dce8bb7-df4e-4cf1-ba9b-0f3342d68236/9q39keg-7d0-yISIjwT20EZ2.png","author":"Laura Camacho","episode_count":600,"summary":"🏆 Ranked #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence? Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying? Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings? Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts. You'll learn: 1. Visibility Strategies from the art of persuasion, ensuring your voice is heard and respected in meetings and sought after for key projects 2. How to expand your influence, to reclaim your recognition, get green lights, and avoid your ideas being taken credit for by others 3. How to develop your confidence, to participate actively in senior leadership and executive meetings and beyond Host Laura Camacho, with 20 years of coaching experience, guides high-performing professionals to express their ideas clearly and build executive presence. Tune in every Monday for a 10-minute executive communication skill, Wednesdays for a half-hour industry leader interview, and Fridays for a 8 to 10-min…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T12:17:11.638346+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-up-develop-your-executive-presence-leadership-communication-style-65929"},"episode":{"title":"556: Why Your Updates Are Closing Conversations—Not Opening Your Door to the Executive Suite","slug":"556-why-your-updates-are-closing-conversations-not-opening-your-door-to-the-executive-suite","published_at":"2026-04-10T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-up-develop-your-executive-presence-leadership-communication-style-65929/556-why-your-updates-are-closing-conversations-not-opening-your-door-to-the-executive-suite","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speak-up-develop-your-executive-presence-leadership-communication-style-65929","url":"http://www.speakupwithlaura.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/757fc55a-7d27-4d07-911b-1eeeb3c15219.mp3","summary":"Click here if you’re a senior leader who’s ready to recalibrate how you’re perceived at the executive level — in the next 90–120 days. The Executive Presence Mastery System may be your logical next step. 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. Download the Executive Presence Scorecard assessment. Your updates might be too good. And that’s exactly the problem. Most professionals are trained to be thorough, clear, and complete—but at senior levels, that approach can actually signal execution instead of strategy. If you’ve ever felt overlooked despite doing great work, this episode reveals why your communication style—not your performance—might be the real bottleneck. By the end of today’s episode, you will know: 🤫Why closed-loop updates limit your visibility with senior leaders 🚀How to shift from reporting information to driving strategic conversations 🔑A simple, practical technique to keep leaders engaged and coming back to you Press play now to learn how to transform your updates into opportunities that pull you into bigger, more influential conversations. Recap of the Open Loop Add-On: Before you finish speaking—just add one of these: 1. A decision point 2. A strategic implication 3. A tension or tradeoff 4. A forward-looking question Because the people who get pulled into bigger rooms… Are the ones who make conversations bigger. If you want to understand how your executive presence is currently showing up—whether you're closing loops or actually leading conversations— I highly recommend you take the Executive Presence Scorecard . The link is in the 2nd paragraph of these show notes. 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