Leadership Material: How Personal Experience Shapes Executive Presence

How do you become influential? What are the qualities that ensure people are drawn to you? And how do you develop these?

Personal experience is the raw material for building executive presence.

Viewed as "touchy feely," intangible and invisible, most leaders separate their personal lives from their professional ones. Executive coach Diana Jones argues that this is unwise. In fact, the "soft side" of leadership - empathy, compassion, and authentic communication derived from personal experienc...