EP
Executive Presence
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-27
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-comms
Sharpen how you show up in high-stakes rooms — communicate with gravitas, concision, and confidence. Use when asked to improve executive presence, prepare to present to leadership, sound more senior, command a room, or get coaching before a big meeting. Produces specific guidance — how to open, structure answers (BLUF/headline-first), handle tough questions, project calm, and the habits to drop, tuned to the moment.
What to give it
▸The moment — what you're walking into (present to execs, defend a plan, answer a hostile question, lead a crisis call).
▸The audience — who's in the room, what they care about, your standing with them.
▸Your goal — the decision/impression you want, and the message.
▸Your concern — what you're worried about (rambling, nerves, getting derailed, sounding junior).
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Advice is specific to the actual moment, not generic "be confident"
✓It coaches answer-first / BLUF structure with an example for this situation
✓There's a concrete plan for the hard question and for "I don't know"
✓Names specific hedging language to drop, with replacements
✓Includes calm/composure cues (pace, pauses, silence) — behaviours, not vibes
✓Gives a strong opening and a clear close on the ask
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not give generic advice ("be more confident") — coach specific behaviours for this room
Do not bury the lead — answer-first; making execs wait for the point reads as junior
Do not bluff a tough question — calm "here's what I know, I'll confirm the rest" beats a confident wrong answer
Do not equate presence with talking more — concision and comfortable silence project more authority
Do not coach a persona — it's behaviours layered on who you are, not an act that won't survive pressure
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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