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What gives you confidence and how do you build it? Building confidence is an on-going process that includes a clear direction, the right skills, ambitious goals and taking the promotion you feel you’re not ready for.

What happens if you just keep focusing on your expertise? Doing more of what you already do well yields only incremental improvement. Chances are that instead of getting ahead, you’ll just get stuck. Develop your interpersonal skills instead.

Research on appearance in Executive Presence is clear. How you look – dress and take care of yourself, matters. You want to be remembered and noticed also for your style, for looking the part. The easiest way to ‘pulling’ a professional look is via tailoring.

The business world needs more logical as well as human-centric leaders because the circumstances demand it – digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI/genAI…and their employees. The best leaders learn to be more self-aware and self-reflective so they can lead from the inside-out.

How do you deal with professional setbacks? Even the smartest and the hardest working executives will face failures at some point in their careers. The latest research on leadership points to the power of self-reflection and awareness to build confidence and balance humility.

Are you a skilled executive who struggles to translate his vision for success in actual performance? Perhaps you aren’t training the right skills. The practice of some of the world’s best leaders reveals, that you need to get to know yourself first before you can lead others. Here’s why.

What does it take to lead over 200.000 employees world-wide and create billions in revenue? The example of Ana Botín and others. And no, taking care of yourself isn’t boring.

Many leaders have mastered executive skills related to finance, strategy and systems to name a few, but still struggle to translate that knowledge into concrete results. Here are the 3 steps to bridging the gap.

Ida Liu is one the most polished executives in the banking industry serving the ultra wealthy. Here is what we can learn from one of the most powerful woman in finance.