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Looking to take the next step up?

Workshop your executive style with WAAPA.

Take your leadership to the next level. 90 minutes, one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner. Skills, frameworks, practice, development, and live feedback specific to you - applied to real material in a private studio at our brand new city campus.

A different kind of professional development, built on WAAPA's world class reputation of training by doing.

Who is The Executive Presence Intensive for?

This Intensive is for professionals who have ideas worth hearing but aren't landing with the weight they should. You may have been told - directly or indirectly - that you need stronger executive presence. You don't want to become louder or more aggressive. You want to develop quiet authority that makes people listen and respect your ideas.

This Intensive is for you if any of these sound familiar:

• Your last performance review mentioned executive presence - directly or indirectly.

• You've been overlooked for opportunities you should have been considered for.

• You're being positioned for a senior role, but ‘presence’ is holding you back.

• You're technically excellent but you sense you're not being read as a leader.

• You hold real authority but it's not coming through in the way people experience you.

What You'll Work On

• The signals that shape whether people read you as a leader.

• Vocal gravitas - pace, pitch, and the strategic pause that commands respect.

• Physical presence - how to occupy a room with confidence.

• Holding the floor - what to do when someone talks over you.

• Contributing ideas with weight.

What You'll Walk Away With

• A clear set of executive presence skills and techniques you can apply immediately.

• An assessment of the habits currently costing you authority in the room.

• Techniques applied to real situations in your professional world.

• A warm up and preparation plan to walk into any space with confidence.

How it works

You'll spend 90 focused minutes one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner in a private studio. The session is built around real material - we assess where you are, introduce the skills and frameworks that matter most for your situation, and work on your content with live feedback. The shape of the session is tailored to you: what you need, what you're preparing for, and where the time is best spent.

Format

Private Masterclass working 1:1 with a senior WAAPA practitioner.

Why a 90 minute intensive?

A traditional one-day workshop puts you in a room with 20 to 25 other people, working through generic exercises, with maybe 10 minutes of personalised attention if you're lucky. The frameworks are useful. The group dynamic is energising. But the practical reality is that you spend most of the day watching other people learn.

Our 90-minute private intensives are built differently. You work one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner, on real material, in a private studio. Every minute of the session is focused on you. Your delivery, your habits, your situation, your goals. The feedback is immediate, specific, and rehearsed in the room rather than left to apply later.

This is why our clients consistently tell us they get more from 90 minutes here than from a full day elsewhere.