1154: The Fundamentals of Great Executive Presence with Elisia Keown
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Elisia Keown breaks down what it really means to develop your executive presence.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) What it really means to have “more executive presence”
2) The sentences hindering your executive presence
3) How to show up more confident for your next meeting
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— ABOUT ELISIA —
Elisia Keown is an Executive Coach and Founder of Keown Coaching, with 26 years of experience in Coaching, Leadership, Talent Acquisition, and Human Resources. Direct, honest, and kind, she helps executive leaders strengthen their executive presence, elevate their impact, and achieve measurable results through strategic planning. Elisia is also the host of The Executive Coaching Podcast, where she shares practical insights for today’s leaders. Known for her no-nonsense yet fun approach, she brings energy and real-world experience to every coaching conversation. She lives in Wesley Chapel, FL, with her husband and their blended family of five children.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're not having failure, if you're not feeling a little bit of the discomfort, |
| 0:13.9 | if you're not feeling a little bit queasy about some of the things. |
| 0:17.0 | Your goals probably aren't stretching you. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah. Your goals probably aren't stretching you. That's Alicia Cowan. |
| 0:28.0 | She's an executive coach with over 26 years of experience helping leaders elevate their impact through strategic planning. |
| 0:33.8 | Part of Alicia's mission is to demystify the atomic bomb of feedback, needing more executive presence. |
| 0:40.7 | She has some unique insight on what people really mean when they say that. |
| 0:43.8 | So you'll learn one, what it really means to have more executive presence. |
| 0:47.7 | Two, the sentences hindering your executive presence. |
| 0:51.6 | And three, how to show up more confident for your next meeting. And if you want |
| 0:55.3 | a quick summary write-up of the actionable wisdom that Alicia shares, I recommend you to sign up for the |
| 0:59.1 | free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find it awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete Bikaitis. |
| 1:04.2 | This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now, here's Alicia. |
| 1:12.3 | Alicia, welcome. |
| 1:13.6 | Pete, thank you. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:16.4 | Well, I'm excited to talk executive presence, |
| 1:18.4 | and I think your own clients have teed this up perfectly |
| 1:21.1 | when they've actually said to you, |
| 1:22.7 | I've told I should have more executive presence, |
| 1:25.1 | but WTF does that even mean? |
| 1:29.3 | Exactly. Maybe they leave, but WTF does that even mean? Exactly. |
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