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Hosted by Dale Dixon · business · EN-US
Executive presence and communication under pressure, for leaders who know the material and still feel it slip when the stakes rise. Host Dale Dixon spent nearly 40 years in broadcast news and executive leadership and now coaches executives for the moments that matter: board meetings, tough Q&A, media interviews, keynotes, hard announcements, difficult conversations, and on camera. Each episode takes one real pressure problem, sometimes straight from the headlines, explains what is happening underneath it with credible research, and gives you a practical tool to use before your next important moment. Episodes run about 12 to 30 minutes, with chapters and sources in the show notes. New episodes every Tuesday. Free Field Guides, the communication assessment, and coaching are at daledixonmedia.com.
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Signup to Generate a PitchExecutive presence and communication under pressure, for leaders who know the material and still feel it slip when the stakes rise. Host Dale Dixon spent nearly 40 years in broadcast news and executive leadership and now coaches executives for the moments that matter: board meetings, tough Q&A, media interviews, keynotes, hard announcements, difficult conversations, and on camera.
The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure is hosted by Dale Dixon. The show has published 303 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Antagonist Test: When Staying on Message Is the Wrong Move" (27 October 2026, 18 minutes), "The Cost - Who Pays, Who Decides, Who Answers" (20 October 2026, 12 minutes), and "Next Move - What to Do the Night Before a High-Stakes Meeting" (6 October 2026, 13 minutes).
The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 21 minutes across 303 episodes.
Booking probability for The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dale Dixon hosts The Presence Lab | Executive Communication Under Pressure, a business podcast with 303 episodes published.
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Episode #303
"A leader's job is to know when there's an antagonist in the meeting, but not see every hard question as antagonistic." Free Field Guide: https://www.daledixonmedia.com/intent Chapters: 0:00 Three asks, one message 1:36...
Episode #302
Send us Fan Mail Description Sam Altman said the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI. He deserves credit for naming the tradeoff out loud. The reaction raises a harder question for every...
Send us Fan Mail Picturing the big meeting going well can make it go worse. The night before a high-stakes meeting, the meeting shows up early. The CFO challenges the number, a board member asks the one question we...
Send us Fan Mail The go-to answer to "Is AI taking my job?" is "embrace it and you'll be fine." The people using AI the most are the ones most worried about losing their jobs. It happens at the end of a one-on-one, the...
Episode #299
Send us Fan Mail Interrupting someone feels rude. Sometimes not interrupting is the bigger communication mistake. Dale Dixon learned that during about fifteen years in television news, where protecting the viewer...
Send us Fan Mail You know the material. You’ve done the work. You may even be the most knowledgeable person in the room. So why do you suddenly get nervous when the stakes go up? Sometimes it isn’t a preparation...
Send us Fan Mail You notice the folded arms. The silence. The lack of questions. The person looking down at the table. You read the room. Then you make the dangerous leap: you decide what all of it means. In this...
Send us Fan Mail How does a bad decision survive the idea, production, internal review and final approval before somebody finally says, “We shouldn’t do this”? That’s the leadership question behind the Good Good Golf...
Send us Fan Mail You didn't lose your point. You watched yourself soften it. One skeptical look, and "we should do this" turns into "I think maybe we could look at this." For executives, founders, and senior leaders who...
Send us Fan Mail The opening of a talk isn't a scripting problem. It's a state problem. Here's what happens in the first thirty seconds, and three moves that keep your best material in reach when the pressure hits. Most...
Send us Fan Mail You know the material. Then someone asks a difficult question, the room turns toward you, and your mind goes completely blank. Why does your mind go blank under pressure? More importantly, how do you...
Send us Fan Mail Every leader believes the same thing under pressure: prepare hard enough, control enough of it, and you will finally be safe. It is exactly backwards. The tighter you grip the plan, the less you can do...
Send us Fan Mail Everyone tells you to calm down before the big moment. The research says that's the wrong instruction, and it's quietly costing you the edge you need. In the spring of 2017, Dale Dixon was pinned under...
Send us Fan Mail Get The Pause Field Guide, a free two-page companion with all three pauses, the training wheels line, and a seven-day tracker: https://daledixon.me/pause Someone asks you a hard question and you start...
Send us Fan Mail Every leader knows the moment. The reorg announcement, the roadmap cut, the budget town hall. And right before the hard sentence lands, something in us reaches for a sweetener. "But nobody's job is at...
Send us Fan Mail Download the field guide: https://www.daledixon.me/gap Experienced leaders rarely have a clarity problem they can feel. They have one they can't. Learn why your message stops landing once you leave the...
Send us Fan Mail There is a version of you that walks into the room, and a version of you that everyone else actually experiences. The gap between them is usually something small. A sigh you didn't know you let out. An...
Send us Fan Mail You don't have six personalities under pressure. You have one switch, challenge or threat, and your body flips it before you get a vote. In this episode, Dale opens with the assessment that told him a...
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it.</p><p>Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience...
Episode #283
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Download the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcast</p><p>I tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal...
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