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EXECUTIVE-PRESENCE5 MIN READ

Build A 90-Second Executive Update

Construct a 90-second executive update using headline, stakes, evidence, risk, and ask.

Tomas has 90 seconds in ELT to update a launch with $2.4M in renewal protection. The project has many healthy workstreams, but one partner security approval could threaten the date. Use the Hewlett executive-presence stack: communication creates the headline, gravitas names risk and consequence, and presence signals make the ask crisp enough for the room to act. Not quite: a project diary feels thorough but fails the senior-room test. If Tomas lists every workstream first, ELT must infer the decision. That violates the communication pillar because the room spends its limited attention assembling meaning instead of evaluating the ask. It…

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