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Are you unintentionally limiting your executive influence every time you avoid difficult conversations?
Many high-performing professionals struggle to speak up in critical conversations — especially when senior leaders, strong personalities, or conflicting priorities are involved. In this episode, learn why smart, capable professionals stay quiet, how executive presence shapes career growth, and what it really takes to communicate with confidence in high-pressure environments.
Whether you’re trying to influence decisions, earn more respect in meetings, or prepare for senior leadership, this conversation reveals the communication skills that often determine who advances… and who gets overlooked.
In Laura’s conversation with Betsy Kauffman, discover:
💰How to disagree professionally without sounding emotional, defensive, or difficult
🔎The hidden role executive presence plays in promotions, influence, and leadership perception
🚀Practical strategies to speak with more confidence in executive and high-stakes meetings
Press play to learn how confident communication and executive presence can elevate your influence, strengthen your leadership reputation, and accelerate your career growth.
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 set up a strategy call with Laura.
To learn more visit www.speakupwithlaura.com. New Speak Up podcast episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday early in the morning.
Topics include:
- Executive presence
- Leadership communication
- Speaking up in meetings
- Workplace confidence
- Conflict resolution
- Career advancement
- Executive influence
- Executive coaching
- Communication skills for executives
- High-performing introverts
About our guest:
Betsy Kauffman, a globally recognized executive leadership coach, organizational agility consultant, TED Talk speaker, and the Founder and CEO of Cross Impact Coaching.
With more than 25 years guiding Fortune 500 and mid-market leadership teams, Betsy specializes in helping CEOs quickly create aligned, high-performing executive teams, so the entire organization gains clarity, direction, and the ability to execute. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership alignment, business strategy, and organizational performance, shaped by decades of leading complex enterprise technology transformations.
Betsy is best known for her firm’s flagship offering, the Leadership Alignment Lab, which combines executive coaching, a proprietary interview-based 360 Leadership Impact Assessment, and quarterly strategic offsites.
In Speak Up communication and executive presence coaching, high performing leaders and executives learn to enhance their influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities.
By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking and beat imposter syndrome. Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.
