executive-presence
Sharpen how you show up in high-stakes rooms — communicate with gravitas, concision, and confidence. Use when asked to improve executive presence, prepare to present to leadership, sound more senior, command a room, or get coaching before a big meeting. Produces specific guidance — how to open, structure answers (BLUF/headline-first), handle tough questions, project calm, and the habits to drop, tuned to the moment.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill executive-presence --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Executive Presence Skill Executive presence isn't a personality you're born with — it's a set of learnable behaviours: leading with the answer, speaking concisely, staying composed under pressure, and projecting calm conviction. This skill gives specific, actionable guidance for a particular high-stakes moment (a leadership presentation, a board Q&A, a tense meeting) — not generic "be confident" advice. ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if they aren't already provided: - **The moment** — what you're walking into (present to execs, defend a plan, answer a hostile question, lead a crisis call). - **The audience** — who's in the room, what they care about, your standing with them. - **Your goal** — the decision/impression you want, and the message. - **Your concern** — what you're worried about (rambling, nerves, getting derailed, sounding junior). ## Output Format ### Executive Presence: [the moment] **1. Lead with the answer** — for this situation, the BLUF/headline-first version: state the conclusion or ask in the first sentence, then support it. Executives want the bottom line, then the why — not a build-up to it. **2. Be concise** — the 2–3 points that matter, cut to the es
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What does the executive-presence skill do?
Sharpen how you show up in high-stakes rooms — communicate with gravitas, concision, and confidence. Use when asked to improve executive presence, prepare to present to leadership, sound more senior, command a room, or get coaching before a big meeting. Produces specific guidance — how to open, structure answers (BLUF/headline-first), handle tough questions, project calm, and the habits to drop, tuned to the moment.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill executive-presence --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.