Gravitas Is the Ultimate Luxury: How to Build Executive Presence, with Janet Bartucci
Some people walk into a room and the room adjusts. It happens before they say a word, and it has little to do with title or wardrobe. Janet Bartucci spent decades advising chief executives at The Estée Lauder Companies and Hill & Knowlton through CEO transitions, global crises and brand reinventions, and she has a name for what she kept noticing in those rooms: gravitas. She and Heather take it apart piece by piece, from the voice you use in a conference room to the values underneath the life you are building, and make the case that executive presence is learned, not inherited.
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What you'll learn in this episode
- Why gravitas is a learned behavior, and Janet's letter-by-letter breakdown: grace, respect and resilience, authenticity and awareness, voice, integrity and interest, timing and tact, approachability, signature style and substance
- How to speak with authority without raising your voice: modulation, pitch, the deliberate pause, and why the first thirty seconds decide how the room listens
- What a signature style does for you, and why the woman who isn't thinking about her hemline is free to read the room
- How gravitas works outside the C-suite, for gala chairs, nonprofit founders and anyone asking others to care about a cause
- Why goals and values can quietly stop matching, and the questions Janet asks women in their forties and sixties when they hit that wall
About the guest
Janet Bartucci advised C-suite leaders at The Estée Lauder Companies and Hill & Knowlton and has founded three companies. Through Conscious Living Coaching, she helps executives and entrepreneurs build gravitas: the grounded presence that determines how a person is received before they speak.
Connect: janetbartucci.coach
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