Full-Day Classroom Seminar
Sabira Merchant – Advanced Communication
Executive presence, strategic communication, influencing skills, and boardroom excellence for CXOs and senior leaders.
A premium master class to help senior leaders communicate with confidence, clarity, credibility, gravitas, and executive impact.
The Programme
Programme Overview
Introduction
Course Overview
Senior leaders are expected to communicate vision, strategy, and organizational priorities with confidence. They must influence stakeholders, handle high-stakes discussions, present to boards, manage difficult questions, negotiate effectively, and represent the organization in formal business settings.
This master class helps CXOs, Directors, Business Heads, Vice Presidents, Senior Leaders, and Entrepreneurs strengthen executive presence, strategic communication, boardroom communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, difficult conversations, media readiness, and personal brand. The programme is aligned with Sabira Merchant’s executive coaching style and is designed for a senior leadership audience.
Outcomes
What You Will Learn
- Develop a commanding executive presence in every interaction.
- Communicate with confidence, clarity, credibility, and gravitas.
- Adapt communication styles for boards, leadership teams, and stakeholders.
- Structure complex messages for maximum executive impact.
- Communicate vision, strategy, and organizational priorities effectively.
- Present with confidence before Boards, CXOs, investors, and clients.
- Handle difficult questions with confidence and composure.
- Influence through emails, reports, executive summaries, and business messages.
- Negotiate with customers, partners, regulators, and leadership teams.
- Build a powerful executive personal brand and communication excellence roadmap.
Methodology
How We Teach
- Executive self-introduction and leadership presence assessment.
- Strategic business message delivery for a leadership audience.
- Business proposal presentation followed by executive Q&A.
- Executive communication drafting and refinement for key stakeholders.
- High-stakes executive negotiation role play.
- CXO keynote delivery with personalized coaching and feedback.
The Outcome
Impact & Audience
For the Organization
Organizational Impact
- Strengthen leadership communication across boards, senior teams, clients, investors, and key stakeholders.
- Improve clarity and alignment when communicating vision, strategy, and organizational priorities.
- Build stronger influence across functions, business units, and leadership groups.
- Improve boardroom communication, executive presentations, and high-stakes discussions.
- Enhance organizational representation in formal business settings, conferences, town halls, and public-facing forums.
- Support senior leaders in managing conflict, negotiation, sensitive discussions, and stakeholder relationships with greater diplomacy.
For the Individual
Personal Impact
- Build executive presence, poise, gravitas, and leadership confidence.
- Communicate strategy and business priorities with stronger impact.
- Present to senior audiences with clarity, confidence, and composure.
- Handle difficult questions, negotiations, and sensitive conversations more effectively.
- Strengthen executive etiquette, networking, and relationship-building skills.
- Create a personal communication excellence roadmap for long-term executive impact.
Audience
Who Should Attend
- CXOs: To strengthen executive presence, boardroom communication, stakeholder influence, and public-facing communication.
- Directors: To communicate strategy, manage senior-level discussions, and represent the organization with confidence.
- Business Heads: To influence across functions, present business priorities, and lead high-impact conversations.
- Vice Presidents: To sharpen leadership messaging, executive presentations, and negotiation skills.
- Senior Leaders: To handle difficult conversations, feedback, conflict, and stakeholder management with maturity.
- Entrepreneurs: To build executive presence, personal brand, investor communication, and formal business communication impact.
Curriculum
Course Outline
Session 1: Executive Presence & Leadership Communication
- Develop a commanding executive presence in every interaction.
- Communicate with confidence, clarity, and credibility.
- Use executive body language, voice modulation, and gravitas.
- Build trust and influence through authentic communication.
- Adapt communication styles for boards, leadership teams, and stakeholders.
- Participate in an executive self-introduction and leadership presence assessment.
Session 2: Strategic Communication for Senior Leadership
- Communicate vision, strategy, and organizational priorities.
- Influence without authority across functions and business units.
- Manage high-stakes conversations and executive discussions.
- Structure complex messages for maximum executive impact.
- Communicate through uncertainty, change, and transformation.
- Deliver a strategic business message to a leadership audience through a hands-on exercise.
Session 3: Executive Presentation & Boardroom Excellence
- Present with confidence before Boards, CXOs, investors, and clients.
- Apply storytelling techniques for business leaders.
- Handle difficult questions with confidence and composure.
- Deliver persuasive presentations without information overload.
- Understand executive meeting etiquette and boardroom protocol.
- Present a business proposal followed by executive Q&A through a hands-on exercise.
Session 4: High-Impact Business Communication & Executive Etiquette
- Apply executive-level business writing and communication standards.
- Influence through emails, reports, and executive summaries.
- Understand global business etiquette and cross-cultural executive communication.
- Build professional networks and relationships at senior levels.
- Represent the organization with confidence in formal business settings.
- Draft and refine executive communication for key stakeholders through a hands-on exercise.
Session 5: Influencing, Negotiation & Difficult Conversations
- Apply advanced influencing techniques for senior executives.
- Negotiate with customers, partners, regulators, and leadership teams.
- Manage conflict while preserving relationships.
- Deliver difficult feedback and handle sensitive discussions.
- Use executive diplomacy for stakeholder management.
- Role-play a high-stakes executive negotiation scenario through a hands-on exercise.
Session 6: Personal Brand, Media Readiness & Executive Impact
- Build a powerful executive personal brand.
- Speak at conferences, town halls, and leadership forums.
- Handle media interactions and public-facing communication.
- Strengthen executive networking and reputation management.
- Develop a personal communication excellence roadmap.
- Deliver a CXO keynote address with personalized coaching and feedback.
Faculty & Inclusions
Your Trainer
Faculty
Instructors Details
The master class is aligned with Sabira Merchant’s executive coaching style and is designed for a senior leadership audience. The facilitation approach focuses on executive presence, boardroom communication, strategic influence, leadership messaging, stakeholder management, high-impact communication, personalized coaching, and feedback.
What's Included
Certificates & Inclusions
- Certificate and inclusions to be confirmed as per programme format.
- Premium master class learning experience for senior leaders.
- Hands-on executive communication exercises.
- Role plays, presentation practice, executive Q&A, and personalized feedback.
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Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
This master class is designed for CXOs, Directors, Business Heads, Vice Presidents, Senior Leaders, and Entrepreneurs.
The uploaded document positions this as a premium, invitation-only master class for CXOs and senior leaders. It is best suited for a senior leadership audience.
Yes. The programme covers executive presentation, boardroom excellence, executive meeting etiquette, boardroom protocol, business proposal presentation, and executive Q&A.
Yes. The programme includes influencing, negotiation, conflict management, difficult feedback, sensitive discussions, executive diplomacy, stakeholder management, and a high-stakes executive negotiation role play.
Yes. The programme includes hands-on exercises, leadership presence assessment, executive communication refinement, and a CXO keynote activity with personalized coaching and feedback.
