377: How Your Response To Stress as a Leader Wrecks Your Executive Presence and What To Do About It

Most people think resilience is the key to success—but what if that’s only half the story? If you're just "bouncing back" from challenges, you're playing defense. 

As a high-performing leader, you’re constantly facing pushback, high-stakes decisions, and relentless pressure. You prepare, you deliver, and yet—someone in the room still tears your work apart. Do you let it shake your confidence? Or do you turn that moment into a growth accelerator? This episode unveils the science-backed mindset shift that will make you unstoppable.

By the end of today’s episode with 2 anti-fragility experts you will know:

🎯 How to Rewire Your Response to Pressure to see stress as fuel for peak performance, rather than a threat.

💡 The Hidden Power of Negative Visualization: and what elite performers do to improve their performance

🔥 How to Engineer Anti-Fragile Confidence using a game-changing framework that top athletes, military leaders, and executives use to thrive under uncertainty.

Stop letting stress dictate your performance. Tap into your anti-fragile potential—press play now and start training yourself to rise stronger in every high-stakes situation.

If you're tired of being seen as a workhorse instead of a senior leader and feel misunderstood or invisible to senior executives, it’s not your hard work holding you back—it’s how you're presenting yourself.

Being a part of the 90-Day Executive Presence Mastery System will uncover your blind spots, equip you with the tools to communicate with confidence, and help you master the four key pillars of leadership that senior executives respect and recognize. Imagine being listened to, valued, and finally getting the promotion you deserve.

To massively elevate your executive communication, our Executive Presence Mastery System, a 90-day intensive coaching program may be your ticket. Click here to set up a short meetup for us to chat about it.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS:

Dr. Nick Holton, an international expert on the science of human flourishing, and Dr. Adam Wright, current Director of Mental Performance for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals and a long-time performance coach.

Nick and Adam co-founded an organization that specializes in antifragility training – the art of not just surviving but thriving in the face of challenges. They are committed to democratizing the science behind well-being, resilience, and performance.

Nick also works with top performers across a variety of fields such as Meta, the NBA, and NCAA. He’s an international expert on the science of human flourishing (the science of the good life) and co-hosts a podcast sponsored by the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard and Oxford.

Dr. Nick Holton’s work focuses on helping individuals, teams, businesses and organizations become better versions of themselves through the application of the cutting-edge science of human flourishing – a synergistic development of both peak performance and overall well-being and fulfillment. Nick currently serves as a private coach and consultant, working with individuals and groups ranging from professional athletes, NCAA programs, educational institutions, and Fortune 500 businesses. 

Adam consults with clients in such disparate performance arenas as the front office of the NFL, MLB, the European PGA, MLS, Hollywood, and Wall Street. As a practitioner-scientist, Adam draws from decades of practical experience as a coach and athlete, as well as lessons learned as a researcher and professor. Adam currently serves as Major League Mental Performance Consultant for the Washington Nationals and as an advisor and educational board member for several institutions.

Learn more: www.theantifragileacademy.com

In Speak Up communication and executive presence coaching, high performing leaders learn to enhance their influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. 

By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking and beat imposter syndrome. Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.