Executive Presence and Leadership for Influence
This programme empowers managers, rising leaders and entrepreneurs like you with the advanced skills to navigate increasingly dispersed work environments where credibility, clarity and composure directly shape impact.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Online
19 Feb-9 Apr 2026
6 weeks
£2,100
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Online
Dates:
19 Feb-9 Apr 2026
Duration:
6 weeks
Fees:
£2,100
Overview
In today’s high-stakes business world, organisations seek leaders who can go beyond expertise, inspiring trust, influencing outcomes and modelling authenticity. Thus, executive presence is not optional – it is what differentiates leaders from being heard to being followed. This 6-week online programme helps you strengthen your leadership brand, communicate with clarity and confidence, build influence strategies grounded in emotional intelligence, elevate your visibility and lead with authenticity.
Guided by Cambridge Judge Business School’s renowned faculty, fellows and contributors, you will learn proven strategies that can be immediately applied to real-world settings, as well as case insights and practical assignments. By the end of the programme, you will have demonstrated your abilities through a video presentation and reflective report, ready to lead with greater impact and execute business decisions with confidence.
Benefits and career impact
- Lead with a stronger presence that earns trust and drives impact.
- Show up with clarity and composure using socially intelligent leadership tools.
- Shape an authentic leadership brand that reflects your values and strengths.
- Build a high-impact network that supports your influence and career growth.
- Inspire alignment through ethical, emotionally intelligent influence.
- Communicate your vision clearly and confidently through compelling storytelling.
Leaders today plateau not because of technical gaps but because they struggle to be seen, heard and trusted. The Executive Presence and Leadership for Influence programme addresses this need through a blend of academic rigour, practical assignments and reflective learning, giving participants the tools to project credibility and inspire trust.
This programme is being delivered in collaboration with Emeritus.
Programme content
Module 1: The essence of executive presence
- Discover what drives executive presence and how it shapes leadership effectiveness while learning to prioritise the dimensions most critical to your success.
Module 2: Developing executive presence throughout your career
- Learn to apply emotional intelligence and social awareness to sustain presence across key career moments, transitions and conflict situations.
Module 3: Crafting your leadership brand
- Build a leadership brand grounded in your strengths and values, and learn how to communicate it clearly across audiences and channels.
Module 4: Networking and relationship building
- Design and grow a professional network aligned with your long-term goals, and learn how to assess and evolve it for career and organisational success.
Module 5: Persuasion and influence
- Explore ethical influence strategies rooted in emotional intelligence, and apply them to create alignment, action and organisational benefit.
Module 6: Communicating vision
- Learn how to deliver compelling messages with clarity, authenticity and storytelling to inspire trust and communicate vision effectively.
How you learn: Online
Our fully online programmes run over the course of multiple weeks, allowing you the greatest level of flexibility as to where and when you study. The learning is carefully structured in weekly components through a mix of curated videos, live webinars with Cambridge faculty plus Q&A sessions with Live Chat, assignments and discussions.
Who attends
- Managers and rising leaders seeking skills to influence and inspire others.
- Transitioning leaders aiming to gain stakeholder trust and lead effectively from day one.
- Entrepreneurs and business owners looking to align and motivate teams and strengthen their leadership brands.
- Professionals across industries seeking practical, research-based tools to elevate executive presence, ethical influence and relationship building in real-world contexts.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the Executive Presence and Leadership for Influence programme is Professor Thomas Roulet.
PhD (HEC Paris)
Smaranda holds an honorary title from Cambridge Judge Business School.
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
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Executive Presence and Leadership for Influence belongs to our Leadership suite of executive education programmes. Here is a selection of related programmes:
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Contact us
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the Open Programmes team: