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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel.

And this is Hello Monday. It's our show about the changing nature of work

and how that work is changing us.

Okay, so this has happened to you.

You're going for a promotion, maybe you're quite senior in your organization.

You've delivered on your projects. Things are going great.

But you don't get that promotion. Instead, you get this feedback.

She just needs more executive presence.

When you ask, well, what's executive presence, the answer can be hard to parse.

It's like, well, it's, I mean, like, yeah, that guy over there.

He's got strong executive presence.

And you wonder, is there a formula for it?

Can you get better at it?

Muriel Wilkins believes there is, of course, a formula.

She's a coach. Muriel hosts a podcast with Harvard Business Review.

It's called Coaching Real Leaders.

And she actually coaches people on the show.

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