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Hosted by Dale Dixon · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 294 episodes
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Most leadership communication advice tells you what to say. The Presence Lab starts one move earlier, with what your body does under pressure before you say a word. It's built for executives, founders, and senior leaders who already know their material and want the room to feel it, especially when everything is riding on the next few minutes. Here's the premise underneath every episode: under real pressure, your nervous system can read a high-stakes moment as a threat. Your pace climbs, your breath shortens, your voice thins, and the message arrives as a fraction of what you built. That's physiology, not a character flaw, and it's trainable. Regulate the state first, and everything you already know how to say connects the way you meant it to. Host Dale Dixon has spent nearly 40 years in and around broadcast news, and today he's an executive communication coach and the author of Sweating Bullets . Each episode hands you named, practical tools for your next high-st
Dale Dixon hosts The Presence Lab | Leadership Communication That Connects Under Pressure, a business show with 294 episodes published.
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 rec
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 t
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 a
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 an
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 ri
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 r
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 e
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 tr
Send us Fan Mail The smartest person in the room is often the one most likely to lose it. Not because they lack expertise. Because they have so much knowledge in their head that they forget the audience cannot hear the f
Send us Fan Mail Download the free resource guide: https://www.daledixon.me/podcast I tell the story of the night my “authoritative” anchor voice turned into a Peter Jennings impression and made a normal studio feel like
Send us Fan Mail Download the free companion guide at: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/login/ Find the free The moment a meeting gets tense, a strange thing happens to a lot of smart leaders: our pace speeds up, our br
Send us Fan Mail Download the free Audience Load Map with a free membership to The Presence Lab: https://presencelab.sphereapp.com/ In this episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains a common mistake among capable
Send us Fan Mail Most public speaking advice focuses on content, rehearsal, and confidence. That helps, but it misses the real problem many senior leaders face in high-stakes moments: the nervous system gets first vote.
Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of The Presence Lab, Dale Dixon explains why The Game Changers is evolving into a podcast focused on executive presence, leadership communication, and what really happens when press
Send us Fan Mail My mind is a bit blown. I read about Google's newly released NotebookLM in Tim Ferriss' 5-Bullet Friday. Tim pitched it this way: "I know everyone is sick of hearing about AI, but if you haven’t heard th
Send us Fan Mail We unpack the power of having a Personal Game Plan. Discover the transformational impact of pinpointing your 'lead domino' goal to ignite momentum across all areas of your life. Let Eric's insights motiv
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dale and Eric discuss the Gallup 2023 workplace report on employee engagement. They highlight the concerning statistics that show a majority of employees are angry, stressed, and disenga
Send us Fan Mail As leaders, we are constantly evaluating our teams, performance, and the external factors that affect our organizations. But how often do we take the time to evaluate ourselves? In this episode, we dive
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