Elevate your executive presence: North America (Virtual)

Feel at ease in the C-Suite by elevating your executive presence and honing your leadership skills. 

Course description:

This 2-hour course is designed for communication professionals or mid-level managers who currently occupy or have been recently promoted to senior leadership roles within organisations. It’s ideal for those who want to hone their interpersonal skills to fit in and stand out at the executive level. This course builds on business etiquette, presentation skills and personal style to help emerging executives elevate their presence in the C-suite. 

What to expect:

• Learn how to give powerful presentations and manage your emotional intelligence
• Practice social and business interactions to help you be smooth in your everyday contact with peers and leadership
• Discover tips for LinkedIn, your digital resume
• Find out how to land your dream job
• Learn about forms of attire and what to wear in today’s post-pandemic world
• Refresh your dining and business etiquette skills

Who should attend:

Communications professionals, mid-level managers, newly-promoted executives, or anyone seeking to enhance their business and social skills.

Career Level: Strategic advisor, business leader.

Course outline:

Would you do business with you?  

• First impressions, lasting impressions
• Online video appearance and behaviour
• Giving effective presentations and ‘reading the room'
• Emotional intelligence and ways to improve your daily manners
• Social media and LinkedIn tips
• How to be promotable or land that dream job

What to wear

• Attire for business and social events in today’s post-pandemic world
• How to look pulled together and the importance of shoes (yes, shoes!)
• Fit tips for men and women
• Establish measurable outcome and output-based objectives

Dining and social etiquette

• At banquets and formal dinners
• At a coffee meeting with a client

About the trainer

Sue Heuman, ABC, MC, IABC FELLOW

Principal, Focus Communications & CSCE Faculty Member

Image Consultant, Noteworthy Style

Sue Heuman is an award-winning, accredited authority on organisational communication with over 40 years of experience. Since co-founding Focus Communications in 2002, Sue has worked with clients to define, understand and achieve their communication objectives. She is a leader in elevating the communication profession worldwide. In 2022, Sue was awarded the IABC Fellow designation, the organisation’s highest honour, marking a lifetime of contributions to the profession.

Sue has always been interested in fashion and received an Image Consulting Certificate program from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2013. That experience led her to work backstage at New York Fashion Week that same year. Since then, she has stayed current with trends daily and is passionate about wearable style for real life.

She combines her communications and style backgrounds to help people express themselves confidently.