FIELD GUIDE No. 1
Executive Presence
50 Traits That Define How Leaders Show Up
Executive presence isn't a soft skill, and it isn't a style. It's the multiplier — the dimension that shapes how everything else you do lands. This guide breaks it into fifty observable, workable traits and shows you exactly where yours is leaking.
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Every trait, taken apart.
Each of the fifty entries follows the same anatomy: what the trait actually is, why it matters for presence, what builds it, what quietly erodes it, how to know it's working — and how to know it isn't.
Builds It / Erodes It
The 48-Hour Experiment
All Seven Dimensions
Most leaders aren't failing to build presence. They're quietly eroding it without knowing. The erodes column is where you'll find yourself.
Every trait closes with one experiment to run in a real situation within 48 hours. Not homework. Field work.
The fifty traits map across all seven dimensions of leadership — because presence isn't one skill. It's how everything else lands.
How to use it.
This is a reference, not a curriculum. One trait. 48 hours. Come back. Find the gap that's costing you the most right now, read that one entry, pick one behavior, and use it somewhere real. Then find the next one.
Part of The Right Altitude Field Guides — see the full series or start with the flagship The Right Altitude