Fostering Connection Through Body Language in Leadership

In this episode, Dr. Carol Kinsey Goman teaches us the keys to improving leadership presence, and how body language plays a major role in your credibility as a leader. 

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. is the President of Kinsey Consulting Services, an international in-person and virtual keynote speaker for corporations, conferences, universities, and government agencies. 

Her speaking engagements are designed to give audiences powerful and practical strategies that can be implemented immediately. Carol helps executives, managers, entrepreneurs, team leaders, and sales professionals build their leadership presence and use body language to support their verbal messages. She is a sought-after international speaker at business meetings, association conferences, government agencies, and universities with clients in 32 countries.

Carol is a best-selling author of thirteen business books, including The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help – or Hurt – How You Lead and her newest, STAND OUT: How to Build your Leadership Presence.

Her video course, Body Language for Leaders has had over 2 million views and is available on LinkedinLearning. Carol is a content expert with the e-learning company, Athena Online.  

Her expertise has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, Investors Business Daily, CNN’s Business Unusual, PBS Marketplace, the Washington Post’s “On Leadership” column, MarketWatch radio, and the NBC Nightly News.  

Carol has served as an adjunct faculty member at John F. Kennedy University in the International MBA program, at the University of California in the Executive Education Department, and for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at their Institutes for Organization Management. She is a current faculty member for the Institute for Management Studies, and an International Partner with the World Business Angels Investment Fund (WBAF) where she volunteers her coaching expertise.  

In addition, Carol is a California-based executive coach with two specialties: 1) assisting leaders as they craft and deliver key messages, and 2) helping senior managers prepare for C-Suite roles by increasing their leadership presence, which she defines as “the ability to influence and impact others by projecting confidence, credibility, caring, and charisma.”  

Before her work in the business world, Carol was a therapist in private practice, a nightclub performer, and a majorette for the 49ers football team – but not in that order.  

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:44 The definition of leadership presence

2:44 What leadership presence is not

4:31 Credibility/the magic word for shortcuts

5:48 Building credibility by connecting to people

7:49 The connection and the discrepancy between credibility and confidence

9:51 How to speak without diminishing your confidence

14:02 Staying calm under pressure

15:12 Using a model or an image to induce calmness

17:36 Replicating body language to display emotional connection

19:27 Charisma relies on authenticity

20:19 Gaining charisma by optimizing your best strength

22:14 Improving charisma using connection

23:03 When body language signals something is wrong

25:53 Cross-cultural and cultural body language

28:32 Reliable and unreliable body language

32:16 Becoming more confident by mimicking poses

34:52 How stress might be mistaken for deception

39:22 4 things correlated with someone who's trying to deceive

40:54 One change can totally change how you're perceived

43:24 Outro